Happy 7th Birthday to BCE

Our first issue of BCE was May 26, 2000. We started with an email newsletter (68 issues) and later switched to its present form on the WWW.

We get traffic on this website from all over the world, and I really enjoy keeping you informed on the wonderful world of specialty coffee. Our mission hasn't changed...

We want to promote good coffee. I want to educate, learn, and entertain about coffee. As I have said before, and undoubtedly will say again, increasing coffee knowledge benefits all of us. When you and I share our coffee experience with our friends and family, they gain a new appreciation for good coffee and coffee quality in general gets better. When folks find out just how good coffee is when bought right, roasted right, and brewed right, they are less tolerant of mediocre coffee. When more people demand better coffee, you will see the standard raised higher and higher. We have witnessed an explosion of coffee in America and while there is still mediocre coffee being sold, coffee consumers are far more sophisticated now than even a dozen years ago.

I started the newsletter with a proposal to go to Costa Rica on a coffee tour. No one was interested so I finally stopped trying to promote the trip. I finally realized my dream when I took my family to Costa Rica last December.

Thank you for your support and continued viewing.


If you would like to view the first 68 issues in their entirety, CLICK HERE and then scroll down to "Past Issues."

And Happy 100th Birthday to John Wayne, too.

Robert