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From the many good entries, Barend Boot has randomly selected the winners of the wonderful coffee prizes made possible in part by Jura. Click here to see if you have won.

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.

Meet some of the world's best "organic" coffees.

I have so many great memories and images. So I love to tell you about this coffee farmer and farmer's wife.

Ratibor and Tessie of Finca Hartmann are a couple and have just won first prize in "the Best of Panama" of the Geisha Natural. For years they seemed to keep a little distance from the coffee competitions. They are incredibly humble, introverted and very hardworking people.

Go to www.bootkoffiespel.nl and answer the 3 questions of the Boot Coffee Game and stand a chance to win a Jura E8 Dark Inox espresso machine + 1 year free coffee worth € 1585.00 or many other great prizes! Take part as often as you like! Do you know the right answers?

Just before the lockdown, I decide to travel to Colombia at the last minute for a coffee tasting as part of our Coffee for Peace project. I was invited to be the chief judge of a panel of experienced, articulate tasters. An honor and a pleasure, because I find discussing and interpreting flavor profiles together especially fascinating. The event is held at a beautiful hacienda not too far from Medellín. At the end of the coffee day, after about three days of intense smelling and slurping, there is the auction of the very best lots. In the auction room I find myself in a veritable Colombian pandemonium. In the back about sixty jubilant coffee farmers from picturesque villages like Caicedo and Urrao and in front about twenty somewhat bewildered international coffee tasters. And then the auction begins!