Tailored Blends Coffee - Vertical Backcountry Blend

Vertical Backcountry Blend

If you love getting out, away from the lifts and the well-traveled trails, then this coffee is for you. So rich and bold, you'll be itching to brave the cold and crawl out of that toasty warm bag to wrap your hands around a cup. Well worth the weight.

Vertical Backcountry Blend Label

Vertical Backcountry Blend

Whether you're on skins, shoes, or crampons, the backcountry is all about freedom; no boundaries or trails, just a mountain and your imagination. As you contemplate that wall of powder or tower of rock and ice, you need a coffee as bold and free as you are, and nothing frees your mind like a steaming hot cup of Vertical Backcountry Blend (VBB).

As you contemplate the magnitude of your day ahead, the big bass notes from Java Kajumas Organic Taman Dadar provide a thick, full body; smoky and brooding with just a hint of tobacco sweetness. Its calming warmth steadies you. Yet there's more to conquering the vertical than composure and technical expertise, so a blast of strawberry brightness from the Ethiopia Organic Idido Mysty Valley stimulates your creativity as you envision that perfect line, turning a jumble of ice, snow, and rock into art. Out there, days can be long and strenuous, but VBB doesn't let you down, lingering long with an earthy finish of bittersweet chocolate, tobacco, and just a hint of cherry.

Pitting your wits against the mountain requires concentration, know-how, and the right gear. So remember, you can go three weeks without food and three days without water, but one morning without Vertical Backcountry Blend from Tailored Blends Coffee? Better call in the mountain rescue team.

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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