Coffee business and women

She inherited the coffee farm from her husband, who died during the Rwandan genocide. She then invested the money from the coffee she harvested and sold in buying coffee cherries from other farmers and selling them on the domestic market.

In 2000, Epiphanie partnered with thePartnership to Enhance Agriculture in Rwanda through Linkages (PEARL), a project that aims to create better economic conditions for farmers, which PEARL also hopes to achieve by building a niche coffee sector. By improving the quality of coffee, it is possible to get more money for coffee.

Epiphanie has helped bring electricity and water services to towns, distributed cows as a source of milk, built a kindergarten for the children of farmers and workers at the washing stations, and provided jobs and income for thousands of people. Her son Sam is now helping herbuild her company , Buf Coffee.

Girls Who Grind Coffee

In addition to controlling the coffee, many women can be found in the roasters. Here, too, the work is often physically demanding. But nowadays there are many machines to help with the heavy bags and the efficiency of the work.

Women have their say at19grams, Drop Coffee Roasters and Square Mile Coffee Roasters. But Girls Who Grind Coffee Roasters supports women a little more. In addition to being an all-female roastery, theysource their coffee exclusively from women producers, farmers, or producers who support women in farming.

In addition to equality, the roastery also supports fair-trade coffee and is behind the cheek to cheek initiative, where an extra 10% of all retail coffee orders go directly into the pockets of women farmers.

Founder of the Specialty Coffee Association

Erna Knutsen:

• first used the term "specialty coffee" (1974 in an interview with Tea & Coffee Trade Journal)
• was a leader in the coffee world for many years
• Founded the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA)

This woman is a great asset to the coffee industry and not for nothing is she known as the queen of specialty coffee.

Her coffee journey began when she joined the American Molasses Company where she was secretary to the Vice President of Coffee. However, she didn't see anything interesting in coffee at the time. Her journey continued with Bert Fulmer, at B.C. Ireland. It was there, over time, that Erna recognized that there was an opportunity to sell small batches of coffee to small roasters that would not otherwise fill a container.

Gaining equality, trust and attention cost Erna a lot of effort. In the beginning, men would not let her come to the cupping table and roast.

In 1985, when B.C. Ireland celebrated its 100th anniversary, Erna bought the company and renamed it Knutsen Coffee, LTD. The purchase of the company was preceded by another major milestone, the formation of a coffee roasters' association whose name could not be without the word specialty, or choice.

Important baristas in the world

World Championships, Brewers Cup and other coffee competitions are also where women are successful in the coffee world.

I'll start first abroad. Agnieszka Rojewska, three times Polish champion, four times Polish latte art champion, became the first woman to win the World Barista Championship in Amsterdam in 2018.

Filtered coffee from V60 by Agnieszka Rojewska

You will need:

• V60 dripper ideally metal
• 15 grams of coffee ground to make V60 (medium coarseness)
• 250 ml of water
• barista pot
• paper filter
• barista scale with stopwatch

1. Prepare the paper filter for the dripper and rinse the dripper.
2. Pour the coffee into it and level the coffee bed.
3. Pour 150 ml of water over the coffee in a circular motion.
4. Pour the remaining 100 ml into the centre. You should be finished pouring in 1 minute.
5. Now all you have to do is serve. Enjoy.