Brazil's Coffee Harvest Is Looking Good

One of my neighbors when I lived in Maine was an older gentleman who tracked coffee. Every morning he would have his freshly brewed cup,  one mid-morning and another at lunch. Then as he said, "It's tea for the rest of the day. I need to sleep at night and the dark roasts, well I'm not young anymore." 

Like many coffee aficionados he made the art of growing coffee part of his retirement study. When asked he could tell you the price trends in Brazil, India, and Africa. John had worked many years in the international sales division of a large corporation.

He never used a computer, but would travel several days a week to a commodities brokerage house to watch and study coffee prices.  John would take the information and plot it on graph paper-the light green one. He would then make his decisions to invest and buy based on his predictions. He not only invested his money in the commodities, but he would buy coffees to use based on his predictions. The predictions filled several notebooks in his study. His family thought of it as an eccentric habit, one of a retired man.  But no one laughed when coffee prices escalated dramatically one year. John gave gourmet and domestic coffees as holiday gifts. A touch of luxury for us all.

Well, John is no longer with us and the notebooks are gone. I use Google and other programs to find the news about coffee and trends.

Today it's contrasting news. Brazil is expecting an excellent crop of coffee while India is having problems with supply due to unseasonably warm temperatures.Good reason to find some coffee beans you enjoy.

As I looked at the Boca Java site today  I saw a combination reminding me of John.  Click here for a Sunrise Sunset day.  You start your day with a fine coffee and end with a good tea.

So for all you coffee lovers. It's still looking good,

Not the usual grind,