Balzac News

A Recap of the 2020 Coffee Quality Summit in Yepocapa – Building resiliency into the supply chain
A Recap of the 2020 Coffee Quality Summit in Yepocapa – Building resiliency into the supply chain
A Recap of the 2020 Coffee Quality Summit in Yepocapa  Photographs provided by Devon Barker  When you wake up to in San Pedro de Yepocapa, you’re confronted by the looming,... Read more...
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“Tweega-ing” out over these Tanzanians
After months and months of waiting, we have finally received our Tanzanian coffees, aka Tweega coffees, hence why we are “tweega-ing” out. It was quite a process getting them here,... Read more...
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Doing coffee the Zimbab-WAY
We are definitely on the Zimbabwe train, not literally, but we do love this coffee! A few short flavor notes would be light acidity, full body, with winy and berry... Read more...
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Rainforest Alliance Cupping 2014
Our Rainforest Alliance friends decided that they loved Charleston as much as we do, and wanted to host the cupping competition here again! This year we knew what to expect,... Read more...
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Roasters Guild Retreat 2013
We got to attend the Roasters Guild Retreat 2013 in Roanoke, West Virginia a couple of weeks ago. It started out with a very exciting 9 hour road trip, with many... Read more...
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May Second Sunday
Last Sunday, May 12th, was our first official Second Sunday. We were fully expecting it to down pour and get rained out, but it ended up being a really nice... Read more...
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Rainforest Alliance Cupping Competition
This past week Balzac Brothers hosted the Rainforest Alliance Cupping Competition. Usually this is held in New York, but this year, we offered to host it here in Charleston! To... Read more...
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Warehouse Fieldtrip
We took a field trip today to our Continental Warehouse to pick up some green coffee from Colombia and Guatemala (a.k.a. Guats). It was a beautiful day to go for a ride... Read more...
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New Ethiopian Coffee
Recently, the Ethiopian Embassy has been in touch with Balzac Brothers in regards to increasing exports and promoting their coffees. So we have happily started to bring in more Ethiopian coffee, and in... Read more...
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Garden&Gun and Kudu Coffee cupping
Today we had some exciting guests come by to give cupping a try. A great group from Garden&Gun and Kudu had never been to our “office”, so we thought we’d show... Read more...
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Sideshow Press
This past week, we went to a local letter press company, Sideshow Press on Cannon Street. We got Sideshow to print new business cards for Balzac Brothers. Letter pressing is... Read more...
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New Website & Cupping Competition
Now in its 4th generation of family owned raw coffee importation, Balzac Brothers and Company is excited to be launching a new website. We feel this new site is a... Read more...