Christopher Feran

I’m a coffee industry consultant, green buyer, roaster and lapsed Q-grader with years of experience working with startups and established companies in the Midwest, California and New York City as well as importers, exporters and coffee producers across Africa and Latin America.

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Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021)

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During one of his “yes or no” Instagram Q&As, Scott Rao lamented the declining quality of Kenyan coffees over the last three years—a sentiment I’ve heard echoed by buyers across Europe, the US, and Australia. He kicked a different question over to me about whether cultivar or microclimate or process has the greatest…