Outside Africa and Arabia which is the birthplace of coffee and where coffee was first traded, Indonesia is one of the earliest countries that brought in coffee plants and commercially developed coffee plantations. Now Indonesia is the 4th largest coffee exporter including Robusta and Arabica. Coffee first arrived on Java island in Indonesia. Due to the geographical and climate match, it creates a well suited environment for coffee plantations. In order to expand and increase

Commercial or Specialty Coffee? Accounting for roughly 10% of the world’s coffee supply and revered around the world, Colombia is one of the big players in the global coffee industry both in commercial and specialty. Colombia is world # 1 Arabica coffee producer and world # 3 coffee exporter. No one knows exactly when coffee arrived in what is now Colombia. Some think the bean came with Jesuit priests in the seventeenth century. The first crops were harvested in the Northeas

On Saturday, August 17, it was our pleasure to have the Sales & Marketing Director of Colombia Cafe Granja La Esperanza, Mr. Camilo Hadad visited Belux Coffee Roasters to provide us a fun and informative coffee tasting! The event started with a short video showing the beautiful scenery of the farms - Cerro Azul, Las Margaritas, Potosi, La Esperanza and Hawaii (all names of the farms they own) where farmers hand picked the red/ yellow cherries, coffee trees lined up along the

We are so excited that Belux Coffee Roasters is now open in Alpharetta, offering fresh roasted coffee beans for sale along with pour-over coffee kettles, coffee carafes and more. Guests can come in to our retail store and purchase fresh roasted coffee beans that are roasted here in the store, providing the ultimate in high quality small batch roasted coffee beans in town. We source only the top grade green coffee beans from around the world and can roast on-demand for your co

As some of you may know, there are three famous coffee estates in the world that hold independent auction for their upscale specialty coffee. They are Finca El Injerto in Huehuetenago, Guatemala, Santa Felisa in Acatenango, Guatemala and Hacienda La Esmeralda in Boquete, Panama. In order to provide and source superior quality/taste specialty coffee for our customers, Belux Coffee proudly joined the online auction to bid Santa Felisa’s Pacamara natural processing green beans o