Welcome aboard the new Badbeard's portal, mateys...some details...
- badbeard
- Mar 16
- 1 min read
2025 has seen profound change to the world already, and the coffee sector too (presumably why you're here!) is experiencing many upheavals. The new website will be streamlined to reflect some of the new brutal realities of scarcity and price volatility, for starters. Media stories abound in the press about Arabica and Robusta coffee futures reaching their highest levels ever, which leads to panic buying and hoarding. We urge your cool head to prevail, grab some Badbeard's, and get on with the day. There will be coffee. We work in direct partnership with producers and importers of long standing with us and share the need for transparency.
That said, I will plead with you to indulge me with substitutions as products come and go, faster than before. The first quarter of every new year is when the harvest/production cycle in most of my regular origin positions is ongoing, and might not be arriving until the summer months. Stocks are extremely tight right now as the green coffee buyers in all companies jockey for availability in light of skyrocketing prices and uncertainty, climate change impacts, container shipping and logistical issues. Categories will be regional and I will send the best I got regardless of origin country.
Always a poem for the moment. Today, it will be Shelley: I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and leve…
Love the new site! The “subscriptions” menu item under my account is so tantalizing… I am forever running out of your coffee. Last, but not least, it looks like the elimination of the memo field at checkout is forcing me to leave your short poems in blog comments, hah! Today, it will be Yeats:
Now that my ladder's gone
I must lie down
where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop
of the heart
Looking good!!! 2025 is set to be a crazy time, thanks to you we have coffee for our journey
Xoxox Andrea