Tailored Blends Coffee - The Beautiful Blend

The Beautiful Blend

a.k.a. Soccer Mom (& Dad) Mix

Coffee to keep you warm on the sidelines and alert for the longest of carpools. Buy it for any dedicated soccer mom or dad you know and support youth soccer at the same time. All the profits from the purchase of The Beautiful Blend go directly to Cook Inlet Soccer Club 98 Boys in Anchorage, Alaska.

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Behind every beautiful endeavor there lies a flurry of activity, and youth soccer is no exception. Between carpools, fundraisers, and travel tournaments, soccer parents take on a virtual second job. Whether keeping up with the weekly schedule or watching from the rain-soaked sidelines, The Beautiful Blend (TBB) provides a warm, balanced, sipping coffee designed especially for you.

The Costa Rica Tarrazu-Montes de Oro creates a warm creamy backdrop of toffee-chocolate, taking the edge off of those chilly afternoons and calming your nerves during those 1-1 ties. Steadiness in the stands is key, and TBB helps you out with a delicately balanced body and rich citrus high notes; giving you that calm demeanor when your athlete takes a shot on goal or is the last defender in front of your net. And in the end, win or lose, you're going to be there providing that positive post game support, so TBB follows through with you. Its Ethiopia Dry Process Yirgacheffe injects a dark berry boost as it cools and ends with a honey-sweet finish.

The kids always get a post-game treat, and with the stress and busyness of your schedule, you deserve one too. But forget the Gatorade, pour up some TBB (a.k.a. Soccer Mom & Dad Mix) instead. TBB from Tailored Blends Coffee, a beautiful addition to the Beautiful Game.

$14.99/lb (Plus $4.50 for Shipping)

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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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