Osito Coffee

Osito Coffee Single Origin Colombian Coffee

Coffee Roaster and Wholesaler focusing on
coffee from single farmers with whom we have longstanding relationships.

Yesterday morning at about 7:30 local time, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit San José del Palmar, Chocó, a small municipal...
11/08/2026

Yesterday morning at about 7:30 local time, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit San José del Palmar, Chocó, a small municipality in western Colombia. Though the extensive damage is concentrated in the surrounding areas, the earthquake was felt in Bogotá to the east and even by our own team members in southern Huila.

Chocó is a historically underdeveloped and forgotten part of Colombia with little infrastructure. Much of the department is populated by Afro-Colombians and indigenous communities who are extremely under-resourced and who are incredibly vulnerable.

At present, the death toll is up to 132 with several hundred more being treated for injuries and many people still missing. Even as far away as major cities like Cali and Manizales, there are many damaged buildings and blocked roads.

We are currently in the process of determining how to best deploy resources. We will likely be making a financial contribution by way of Beneficio by Osito where we have saved funds for emergency situations such as these.
We simply need to understand the most trustworthy channels through which to work and where our donations will have the most impact. We will have more information in the coming day or two.

Stay tuned and keep Colombia in your hearts and minds.
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In many ways our team was born out of the workflows and habits that became commonplace during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ex...
07/08/2026

In many ways our team was born out of the workflows and habits that became commonplace during the COVID-19 pandemic. Except for our office in Colombia, our team is spread out over the globe and we rarely get face-to-face time. Well, our North America team descended on NYC today for some special bonding time and few things are so life-giving as a few hours in PERSON with good people.
Digital meetings and screens have worn us all down these last few years so real conversation, shared meals and a little recreational time are a breath of fresh air….even though the air in Manhattan today was anything but fresh 🥵 🥵 🥵
Special thanks to MUSEUM OF ICE CREAM Win Son Bakery & SB for fueling the a very tasty day
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The 2026 Copa de Oro cup competition is a mere three months away!! This year’s roster of participating roaster judges i...
07/08/2026

The 2026 Copa de Oro cup competition is a mere three months away!! This year’s roster of participating roaster judges is thoroughly STACKED…and we are expecting as much from the coffees themselves.
That being said, we only have TWO (!!) more spots available for any roasting companies/buyers who might want to participate in this year’s competition (…and futbol tourney…) so please get in touch with us right away if you would like to join us.
These spots will be available until EOD Friday, August 14th. If they are not snapped up by then, the remaining spots will be offered to participating clients who have already requested a second seat at the table…the cupping table, if you will…
We look forward to seeing you all in Huila for some coffee, sport, camaraderie, some dancing….and maybe a little aguardientico…for the vibes 💃🏽 ✌🏼 🇨🇴

The Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary is a nearly 900 square kilometer tiger reserve in Chikkamagaluru District that borders man...
06/08/2026

The Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary is a nearly 900 square kilometer tiger reserve in Chikkamagaluru District that borders many of the fully forested farms from which we buy coffee. It is home to an estimated 33 tigers in addition to many leopards, elephants, gaur and sambar deer.
One of the expressed goals of Kaad Kaapi is to build a network of these types of coffee farms that could, in effect, amplify the navigable terrain for large species.
India is one of the most biodiverse countries in the whole world and each pound of coffee purchased from KaadKaapi helps protect that diversity.

This week’s newsletter just dropped a few moments ago and there was one headline that we wanted to make sure was highlig...
31/07/2026

This week’s newsletter just dropped a few moments ago and there was one headline that we wanted to make sure was highlighted.

As of today, we will start issuing refunds to clients of Osito LLC for the illegally charged import tariffs from 2025.
A few points of clarity…

1) We, ourselves, have only received a handful of refunds…maybe ~20% of what we actually paid. That is not to say the rest won’t be refunded but that’s all we have seen thus far. As such, we will ONLY be issuing refunds to clients based on what we have ACTUALLY received.

2) The refunded amount will be approximately what was charged in the first place but in some cases the refund may NOT, cent for cent, match the original charge. We will do our best.

3) The refunds will COME IN THE FORM OF CREDIT MEMOS. We understand that this may not be ideal for some customers but gathering bank account information and issuing wire or ACH transfers or paper checks to each and every client would be a time-consuming and costly process. As it stands, we’ve already had to finance these tariffs on everyone’s behalf and we will receive no remuneration for now having to unwind it all and make sure everyone is properly compensated. We are not charging any service fees for issuing refunds/credits so we hope you can all understand the necessity for going about it this way.

4) If you do not receive a credit memo today or do not receive one in the expected amount, that doesn’t mean that you will never receive one. It only means that we have not yet received the relevant refund. It will be issued to your company if and when the refund is received by us.

If something is still unclear, please feel free to email [email protected] or [email protected] with your questions.

This is the performance of the Colombian peso against the US dollar this year. During the month of June, the COP outper...
29/07/2026

This is the performance of the Colombian peso against the US dollar this year. During the month of June, the COP outperformed every other currency from “emerging markets.” So there is no confusion, the USD has become substantially weaker while, at the same time, the COP has become significantly stronger.

There are a few reasons for this…
1. The recent election of right-winger President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella.
2. High oil prices due to the US attacks in Iran.
3. High domestic interest rates.

This surge makes imports into Colombia much cheaper but has made exports MUCH more expensive.

So, what is the net impact on coffee?
If in early May 2026, a client in the US contracted a container load of 84/85 point regional coffee for delivery in September, the approximate landed price would be $4.40 USD/lb FOT.
If a client asked us today for the same thing, the price would be closer to $5.40!!

Yes, the C market has risen about 60c during that time but that painful cherry on top is the depreciation of the USD which makes the differential to the landed price about 15% more than it would have been just a few short months ago.

Our cacao business, in many ways, still feels like a baby compared to our coffee business. However, with each passing y...
29/07/2026

Our cacao business, in many ways, still feels like a baby compared to our coffee business. However, with each passing year, each new harvest, every trade show attended and with each and every conversation with clients and producers alike, we learn a little bit more and refine our goals and ex*****on.

So, now in our fifth year of working with cacao, we have some really big announcements in the coming weeks and months covering a wide range of new initiatives including some new warehousing options, new origin offerings 👀, derivatives, financing options, differential options, FOB sales and maybe even some organic certified cacao…

We’re kind of still in our infancy but we’re here to stay. We intend to be good representatives of a handful of communities of cacao producers in a select few countries for the long term.

Please stay tuned here for all the nitty gritty details!
In the meantime, please check out our offerings of both Colombian & Mexican cacao in North America and Colombia in the UK, EU and Australia. As always, email [email protected] for info.
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📸: Andrea Brito Núñez

We met Salomón García Moreno for the first time a little over six years ago as we were abandoning our plans to visit far...
24/07/2026

We met Salomón García Moreno for the first time a little over six years ago as we were abandoning our plans to visit farms in the Sierra Sur of Oaxaca due to the impending lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of visiting farms though, Salomón met us for breakfast in Oaxaca City before we made our early exit from Mexico. Despite good conversation and interest in his work with the smallholders of Union San Pedro, we have never bought coffee from him before….until now!!
Union San Pedro is an association of producers in the Sierra Sur of Oaxaca who produce coffee, cacao, honey (even a little melipona honey… ), vanilla beans and macadamia. Their approach to economic sustainability is through the cultivation and commercialization of various agricultural products and we want to do everything we can to support it. Just a few months ago, we were able to buy a little vanilla and honey to bring home with us 🍯
Furthermore, Salomón is a well-connected man in Oaxaca and he is helping us deepen some of our existing connections to Santo Domingo Teojomulco where we have been buying since 2020.
We have JUST landed the first lots we have ever purchased from some single producers in San Pedro el Alto and we only have a handful of vac-sealed boxes remaining at CTI NJ. We hope to see more offers before we ship our last containers of the season but for now, it’s so cool to see the slow burn of this relationship and have high hopes that it grows from here!
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For years we have adopted the mantra of “Go deeper, not wider” with regard to our sourcing and offerings. However, ther...
23/07/2026

For years we have adopted the mantra of “Go deeper, not wider” with regard to our sourcing and offerings. However, there are key moments when we decide to expand our product line to include something which we think is special. Rarely do we consider our sourcing to be opportunistically sales-lead. Rather, we choose to buy (and thus, sell) products that we think are inherently interesting or, very often, it’s simply that we want to work with the PEOPLE behind the products. Such is the case this week as some of our team is visiting one of the northernmost departments of Colombia, Cesar. The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range runs right through Cesar as well as the neighboring departments of Magdalena and La Gaujira. Its capital is Valledupar, where our team’s journey began earlier this week, not terribly far from the Venezuelan border.
Our team will spend time with the organization known as Seynekun (meaning “Mother Earth” in the Arhuaco language), an association of indigenous peoples who produce certified organic coffee, cacao and sugar cane.
Yesterday was spent specifically in the community of Jewrwa where there are more than 300 producing families.
Our hope is to establish a healthy working relationship with these folks with an eye toward representing their coffee in our sales markets.
Colombia, in general, is arguably the most famous coffee producing nation in the world, thanks to the FNC, Juan Valdez, his mustache and his famous mule, Conchita. Historically though, what is known about the coffee is it’s from Colombia…. That’s it. More recently, names like “Huila” or perhaps “Risaralda” or “Cauca” have become prominent. Still, though, there are dozens of pockets of coffee production in the country that are nearly completely unknown to the coffee consuming world.
Cesar is one such place and we hope to be among the few that can shine a light on the unbelievable diversity of this beautiful nation.

Our first box of 2026 Mexican coffee has stripped into Continental Terminals NJ. Featured prominently in this container...
20/07/2026

Our first box of 2026 Mexican coffee has stripped into Continental Terminals NJ. Featured prominently in this container is coffee from the Ozolotepeques; several towns in the Sierra Sur of Oaxaca state, many of which we visited earlier this year. Perhaps most interesting, we have community lots from San Juan Ozolotepec (pictured), San Francisco Ozolotepec (…an Osito classic…) and San Antonio Ozolotepec (only the second time we have had a specific separation from there). In addition to this, we have some coffee from los Ordóñez in Chiapas, some Mazateca & Teojomulco microlots, coffee from new relationships in San Pedro el Alto and some small vac-sealed boxes of a couple real bangers!
That being said, we will have more México en route to NY/NJ, Houston, Oakland, Rotterdam and Melbourne!!
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📸: Kyle Bellinger

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