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A Bit of Yauco. From Karl Stephen Herrmann (Library of Congress). Image: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. The town of Yauco is known as the Pueblo del Café and also as the Pueblo de los Corsos. Corsican immigrants settled there in large numbers in the ninetee...

Hacienda Lealtad, former coffee plantation in Lares, Puerto Rico, on 20 May 2019. Photo: The Eloquent Peasant / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Summary Hacienda Lealtad is a historic coffee hacienda in Lares, in the mountains of western Puerto Rico. It was fo...

Café Don Ruiz is a coffee shop with its own small roastery and a coffee museum in the Cuartel de Ballajá, the former Spanish barracks facing Castillo San Felipe del Morro in Old San Juan. It sells coffee grown by the Ruiz family, whose farms are in the mountai...

The Grito de Lares — the "Cry of Lares" — was Puerto Rico's first armed uprising against Spanish colonial rule, staged on September 23, 1868 by a Revolutionary Committee organized by Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances, lawyer Segundo Ruiz Belvis, and approximately a ...

Cordillera Central foliage in Gato, Orocovis, Puerto Rico. Photo: Ligocsicnarf89 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Jamaica Blue Mountain is the coffee that Puerto Rican coffee is most often compared with. This article compares how each is defined, regulated and ...

Summary The colador de café is a cloth coffee filter: a bag of flannel or cotton, shaped like a sock and sewn onto a wire ring with a handle. In Puerto Rico, coffee strained through it is called café colao. Puerto Rican family accounts describe the colador as ...

Mountain in Jayuya, Puerto Rico. Photo: South Atlantic Division (SAD) USACE / Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Hacienda San Pedro is a family coffee farm in barrio Coabey, Jayuya, in the mountains of central Puerto Rico. The Atienza family has run it since 19...

Photo: Yarfpr / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Alto Grande is a Puerto Rican coffee brand from Lares, marketed under the phrase "the coffee of popes and kings" and sold internationally as a premium single-origin Arabica. Its promotional material describes an...

Casa Pueblo is a community organisation in Adjuntas, in Puerto Rico's central mountains. It began in 1980 as a fight against open-pit mining, it runs on sunlight, and it grows and sells coffee under the name Madre Isla. The coffee pays for the rest. This artic...

Photo: Thichcoffee / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Hacienda Tres Ángeles is a family-run coffee farm in Adjuntas that became Puerto Rico's first certified agritourism farm. Tucked into the cordillera central beneath El Gigante Dormido — the Sleeping Giant m...

Photo: Historic American Engineering Record / Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Yauco is remembered as Puerto Rico's coffee town, but it was never the island's largest coffee producer. In 1887, by the United States War Department's own survey, Yauco had 4,400 ...

Puerto Ricans who had just arrived by plane from Puerto Rico, at Newark Airport, New Jersey, on 29 April 1947, waiting to be taken on to New York. Photo: Dick DeMarsica, New York World-Telegram & Sun / Library of Congress, no known restrictions. More people of...

The Oficina de Cafés de Puerto Rico is an office of Puerto Rico's Department of Agriculture, created to bring the Department's work on coffee planting, growing and harvesting under one body. It was created by Law 78 of 27 July 2019, codified at 5 L.P.R.A. § 32...

Photo: Finca del Café / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Café Finca Cialitos is a single-estate Puerto Rican coffee from the mountain town of Ciales. Founded in 1999 as a family-owned coffee farm, the operation is run by Joaquín Pastor González — an agronomist...

This article covers what happens to caffeine after you drink it: how it is absorbed, how it acts in the brain, how the liver clears it, why people react differently, and the intake levels that health authorities have assessed. What is in the cup before you dri...

Photo: Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. The grinder is the single most important piece of equipment in any coffee setup. A great coffee bean ground unevenly will produce a worse cup than an average bean ground precisely. The reason is extraction: w...

Photo: nameless 3791 / Unsplash, Unsplash License. Summary Water makes up most of a cup of coffee, and what is dissolved in it affects how coffee extracts and tastes. The Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) publishes a water standard for brewed coffee, with tar...

A photograph titled "Sleep". Photo: Di_An_h / Unsplash, Unsplash License. The most overlooked fact about caffeine is that it disrupts sleep even when you fall asleep just fine. Caffeine has a half-life of five to six hours in most adults, meaning a cup at 3 PM...