I have been buying Indonesian coffee through local importer here in Korea for 3 years. mostly Sumatra Mandheling and some Flores lot. the quality is good but margin from importer is high and I lose...
Satu isu yang mungkin gak terlalu sering dibahas, tapi dampaknya besar: makin sedikit generasi muda yang mau masuk ke dunia farming. Banyak kebun yang sekarang masih jalan karena generasi lama, tapi...
waktu pertama mulai roastery, semua keputusan purely dari apa yang gue percaya benar secara kualitas dan etika. tidak mau kompromis soal sourcing, tidak mau bikin blend murahan, tidak mau jual di...
pas 2021 itu gila banget, container 40 feet dari Asia ke Eropa bisa nyampe $14,000 lebih. sekarang udah turun, tapi abis Red Sea crisis awal 2024 mulai naik lagi ke kisaran $6,000-8,000 untuk rute...
AKSI dan beberapa laporan industri mencatat pertumbuhan roastery specialty Indonesia yang signifikan dari 2018 sampai sekarang. di kota besar hampir tiap bulan ada roastery baru launch. apakah ini...
gue grouping ini jadi tiga kategori berdasarkan pemakaian yang gue lihat di lapangan: tier pakai-beneran: Artisan (gratis, open source, paling banyak dipakai), Cropster (berbayar, enterprise)...
vision-nya keren: roast profile di mesin roasting otomatis suggest grind setting di grinder dan brew parameter di espresso machine. semua terhubung, share data, optimize together. kenyataannya yang...
this has been sitting in my head because the industry keeps pushing it faster. Good applicants leave when interview timing drags without updates from outside it can look like obvious progress. inside...
Oke jadi gue lagi belajar analisa roast curve dan nemu istilah DTR alias Development Time Ratio. Katanya ideal itu sekitar 20-25%, tapi gue pernah baca juga ada yang bilang 15% udah cukup kalau...
not writing this like a tutorial, just honestly stuck on it. Process descriptors sell well, but they are also confusing some repeat buyers now i keep hearing strong opinions, almost none of them...
gue akui beberapa tahun pertama cenderung reactive, tunggu ada yang bunyi aneh atau performa mesin terasa beda baru di-cek. hasilnya pernah kan downtime di saat yang paling tidak tepat, pas order...
topik ini relevan sekarang karena ada beberapa roaster baru yang masuk pasar dengan teknologi pemanas elektrik menggantikan gas. tidak butuh instalasi gas, tidak ada pembakaran combustion, emisinya...
not writing this like a tutorial, just honestly stuck on it. Fast drying under pressure is making beautiful-looking lots cup strangely flat i keep hearing strong opinions, almost none of them survive...
saya baru sadar stock management di roastery kami masih berantakan. green bean masuk kadang tidak langsung dicatat, roast bean keluar dicatat manual di excel. hasilnya sering tidak sinkron antara...
trend personalisasi kopi makin kelihatan. di kafe tertentu sudah ada konsep "build your own": pilih base bean, pilih brewing method, pilih milk/non-dairy, pilih strength. beberapa subscription...
A lot of teams already log roast data properly, but then someone still copies finished numbers, yield, or batch output into another system for finance or stock movement. Nobody sees it as a serious...
I am hearing more teams use hard dispatch cut-off windows so late orders do not keep exploding the roast and packing plan. Sales usually hates the rule at first, but operations says it is the only...
not writing this like a tutorial, just honestly stuck on it. Parchment storage at farm level is turning into bigger risk during unstable rain periods i keep hearing strong opinions, almost none of...
this has been sitting in my head because the industry keeps pushing it faster. B2B sample follow-up is where too many decent leads die quietly from outside it can look like obvious progress. inside...
In my market more operators are starting to talk about app pre-order for coffee shops. The idea sounds good in meeting, but I am not sure how well it survives in daily business. We all want something...