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We recommend that you store the coffee in the original Boot packaging, or in an airtight canister, in a cool and dry place. Press the closing strip on the Boot 250 gram package firmly shut. Do you use a Boot kilo bag? Then roll the kilo bag up to where the beans are and put a clamp on it. Wash out an airtight canister regularly to remove old odors. Make sure the coffee does not come into contact with other foods or moisture, as it absorbs odors quickly.

For over twenty years we have been engaged in a romance with the Hartmann family in Panama. Our famous coffees like the Panama Birdsong, Hartmann Natural and the Mi Finquita are produced by the Hartmann family. The so-called 'Hartmann Estate' stands like a house and provides space for Ratibor Hartmann and his wife Tessie to start their own project, called 'Mi Finquita'. This project is now several years underway and can be seen as a small cooperative where Ratibor and Tessie help other farmers to improve the quality and sell the coffee. In this blog you can read a small piece from the coffeeTcacao magazine (www.koffietcacao.nl), which our colleague Dennis wrote for. This piece is about the journey we make every year to buy from Mi Finquita, among others.

My and my family's history and connection to Panama began more than 30 years ago with the Panamaria, the fabulous coffee of the month of October with a deliciously broad layer of sweetness from fruits such as apricot and chocolate and which finishes subtly with a citrus acidity.

Why this coffee song "Smell the Shrub". I have a simple answer : "With a song I can touch you and the coffee drinker with my coffee desire. Will you help pass this on? "

I have been a coffee roaster for more than 30 years, from the Dutch family business Boot Koffie, from Baarn. The smell and taste of specialty coffee from special arabica coffee bushes can be impressive, overwhelmingly smooth, powerful and moving. To live that experience and to experience the richness of stories of coffee farmers and their pickers, and to realize the inspiration of coffee roasters and baristas, is what I want to convey to coffee drinkers.

Grateful and proud I am. That with the Boats we provide so much delicious coffee, also together with the great coffee farmers of Panama.

The sound of the coffee berry
Yesterday in the webinar on Best of Panama coffee, I saw again some of Panama's most famous coffee farmers. It felt a bit like "coming home" to me: coffee mother Maria Ruiz, looking so beautiful and talking about the sound of the coffee berry that the picking experts of the Ngobe Bugle Indians can hear. Price Peterson, the grandfather of Panamanian Geisha coffee ...