Tailored Blends Coffee - Aviation

Aviation

From fast, pointy-nosed fighter jets to flying the heavy iron across the world, aviation is an exciting and adventurous endeavor. Our blends will keep you at the top of your game. Buy one for that special aviation enthusiast in your life.

Fighter Pilot Blend
Our signature blend. A perfect gift for the military aviation buff, or fighter pilot at heart. Any coffee lover will enjoy this rich combination of Indonesian and East African Beans roasted to a deep full-city. You'll love the coffee and the label!

Long Haul Helper
Adventurous enough to go around the world, strong enough to cut through the long dark night, and bold enough to keep you energized the entire way. This coffee is dedicated to all the long-haul pilots, sailors, truckers, and train engineers that keep the people, products, and profits for the world economy moving. Thanks for staying up really late so that both ourselves and our packages can arrive safely each morning... anywhere in the world.

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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