What is current crop coffee?

Current crop refers to green coffee from the most recent harvest of a given origin - still in its optimal freshness window and not yet superseded by a newer arrival.

The definition is relative to each origin's harvest calendar. An Ethiopian coffee arriving in January might be from an October harvest three months prior; a Brazilian coffee arriving in November might have been harvested in July. Both are current crop, but at different points in their freshness trajectory.

Current crop on an offer sheet tells you you're buying within the window where the coffee is performing at its best - before brightness and aromatic complexity start to fade. For roasters planning seasonal programmes around new-crop arrivals, current crop is the baseline: what the coffee tastes like when everything is as it should be.