Coffee Resources 

Coffee making tips, coffee websites, coffee inspirations... a veritable cornucopia of news and information from the world of coffee.

 

  • The Bean's Journey
    From the tree to the roaster to your cup, the coffee bean makes an incredible journey. Read how the green beans goes from tree to the roaster. Read how the bean gets roasted and how it transforms into a delicious, drinkable concoction. Finally, check out some tips on making an outstanding cup of coffee.
  • Our Passion
    Our coffee passion boiled down to its essence. One page to give you some insight into our love for the cup and its power to excite, empower, and inspire.
  • Cool Coffee Links
    The web is an amazing array of information. Check out some of our favorite links to increase your coffee knowledge or pursue your coffee passion.

 

 

 

 

 
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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.

 

 

Sweet Marias Coffee Inc 

     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.


 

 

 

 

 

Fair Trade  Organic Seal  Doctors Without Borders  Oxfam  NicaHope  Coffee Kids

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