Tailored Blends Coffee - About Us

Company history

In January 2007, after 3 years of home-roasting for friends and family, we decided to open up an online store. Our passion for writing, living, and all parts of the coffee process have brought us to the products we offer today; premium blended coffee roasted for special occasions. In 2010 we changed our name to better reflect our unique products, so Alive Coffee Expressions LLC is also known as Tailored Blends Coffee

We hope that we can be a small part in creating your perfect holiday, event, or celebration.

Mission Statement

To provide uniquely blended and freshly roasted premium coffee, tailored for special occasions, simply and conveniently anywhere in the United States.

1. Uniquely Blended - We cup single origin coffees from around the world, use different roast profiles, and combine them to form an unusual and high quality coffee whose whole is better than the sum of its parts.

2. Freshly Roasted - We roast orders as they arrive so as to ship them within 48 hours of roasting, use shipping options that don't exceed 5 days, so that any customer's coffee is no more than 1 week from green to the grinder.

3. Premium Coffee - We only order top quality coffee from top-quality suppliers who cup batches both at origin and upon receipt, as well as complying with environmental and economically responsible buying practices.

4. Tailored for Special Occasions - We match the mood and character of the coffee with the chosen occasion, and express that mood in such a way as to create an even more special environment for the coffee lover.

5. Simple and Convenient - We provide a user friendly web site on which it is easy to peruse, easy to order, and easy to pay. We roast and send product expeditiously, and provide responsive customer service in the event there are any problems.

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Why Buy From Us?

* Freshness - Coffee begins to age as soon as it's roasted. After two weeks the flavor begins to lose its vitality, and after one month you can definitely call your coffee old. The best you can hope for, even when packaged correctly, is about one month. We roast the highest grade beans and ship them within 24 hours so that you have the freshest possible coffee in your cup.

* Individuality- Over-roasting causes each coffee to begin to taste similar. The only way to distinguish the fruity highlights of an Ethiopian coffee from the milk-chocolate sweetness of a Columbian is by roasting it just enough to fully roast the bean, yet not so much that the flavor oils become scorched and you're left with the same smoky, charred flavor for each type of bean. We roast each bean to its optimum roast level, bringing out the region's "terroir," processing style, and unique flavor.

* Variety - There are great beans from all over the world: Rwanda, Uganda, Peru, El Salvador, Timor, and Australia, just to name a few. When you buy from the supermarket or the national conglomerate, you are limited to the areas that can sustain mass production. These may or may not be the best quality or the most interesting. We order green beans from all over the world, depending on where the best coffee is, not for any other reason.

We use Sweet Marias as our sole-source green coffee bean supplier. They source beans from all over the world, concentrating on small farms and "micro lots" that would ordinarily fly under the radar of the giant distributors. They cup for quality at origin and they cup again for quality upon arrival in the U.S. Sweet Marias is a Certified Organic and Fair Trade supplier of green beans, so if we offer a blend that says a coffee is "Organic" or "Fair Trade", then you can rest assured it is. Sweet Marias also supports several coffee causes through their business. Please check out any of the linked websites below to learn more about how to help the coffee-growing regions of the word.

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