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Brazil New Crop Green Coffee: What Roasters Can Expect This Season
ICT Coffee is a Q Grader-certified specialty green coffee importer serving roasters across the USA and Canada. This guide to Brazil green coffee wholesale covers the new crop: when current-crop lots reach North American warehouses, the chocolate-and-nut profile that makes Brazil a blend and espresso staple, the main growing regions, how screen size and defect grades work, and how to lock in fresh lots.
How to Read a Green Coffee Offer Sheet: A Buyer’s Guide for Roasters
ICT Coffee is a Q Grader-certified specialty green coffee importer serving roasters across the USA and Canada. This guide shows how to read a green coffee offer sheet column by column: origin and process, grade and screen size, cupping scores, spot versus afloat versus forward availability, how pricing is quoted, and certifications, so you can compare lots and buy with confidence.
Nicaragua Green Coffee Wholesale: Regions, Microlots & Finca Los Pinos
Nicaragua offers roasters clean, balanced Central American coffee at a workable price — and standout microlots like Finca Los Pinos. ICT Coffee, a San Diego specialty green coffee importer, breaks down Nicaragua’s growing regions, varieties, grades, and harvest timing, plus how to source traceable Nicaraguan lots and cup them before committing to bags.
Sumatra Green Coffee Wholesale: Sourcing Mandheling & Gayo for Roasters
ICT Coffee is a Q Grader-certified specialty green coffee importer serving roasters across the USA and Canada. This guide to Sumatra green coffee wholesale explains wet-hulling and the earthy, full-bodied, low-acid profile it creates, how Mandheling and Gayo differ, why Grade 1 hand-sorting matters, and how to source Sumatran green coffee beans by the lot for blends, espresso, and cold brew.
Kenya AA Green Coffee Wholesale: A Roaster’s Sourcing Guide
Kenya AA is the top size grade of Kenyan green coffee — large, dense beans with bright, blackcurrant-forward character. This guide from ICT Coffee, a San Diego specialty green coffee importer, explains what the AA grade actually means, why roasters pay a premium for it, how Kenya’s auction system works, and what to check on a lot sheet before you buy wholesale.
Guatemala Huehuetenango Green Coffee Wholesale: A Roaster’s Sourcing Guide
ICT Coffee is a Q Grader-certified specialty green coffee importer serving roasters across the USA and Canada. This guide to Guatemala green coffee wholesale focuses on Huehuetenango: why its high-altitude microclimate produces bright, fruit-driven coffee, how the region compares to Antigua and Atitlan, what SHB grading means, when fresh crop arrives, and how to source Guatemalan green coffee beans by the lot.
Best Green Coffee for Cold Brew: A Wholesale Guide for Roasters
ICT Coffee is a Q Grader-certified specialty green coffee importer serving roasters across the USA and Canada. This guide covers the best green coffee for cold brew: why cold extraction rewards sweetness and body over acidity, which origins and processing styles deliver it, how to build a consistent cold brew blend, and how to source the volume your summer program needs.
Green Coffee Minimum Orders Explained: A Guide for Roasters
A green coffee minimum order is the smallest quantity an importer will sell — and it shapes your cash flow and freshness. ICT Coffee, a San Diego specialty green coffee importer, explains how minimums work, how to match order size to your roast volume, how storage affects freshness, and how free samples lower the risk of buying a full bag.
Green Coffee Storage for Roasters: Humidity, Shelf Life, and Summer Handling
ICT Coffee is a Q Grader-certified specialty green coffee importer serving roasters across the USA and Canada. This guide breaks down green coffee storage for roasters: the moisture and water-activity numbers that drive shelf life, the right storage environment, packaging that protects the bean, summer-specific risks, and how to buy in quantities you can roast before quality fades.
Ethiopian Green Coffee Beans Wholesale: A Specialty Roaster’s Guide to Yirgacheffe, Sidamo & Guji
ICT Coffee sources Grade 1 Ethiopian green coffee beans wholesale — Yirgacheffe, Sidamo, and Guji — with Q Grader verification on every lot. This guide covers regional differences, processing methods, flavor profile breakdowns, and how to build a specialty Ethiopian program with free samples before committing to a wholesale order with ICT Coffee.