Alert in the Americas: Inside the Farms Growing Our Coffee

I inhale deeply, taking in the varied aromas of freshly ground coffee roasted to just the right hue. I take a sip and the taste buds all across my mouth send one clear message to my brain: this is real coffee. "Before we launched," says Tyler Youngblood of San Francisco based coffee company Azahar, "we tasted coffee from 400 farms in Colombia to decide who we wanted to work with.