12Dec

Gloria Carrizosa; A Female Entrepreneur

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The story of our Mexican coffee, Gloria, is an amazing one. As most small coffee producer stories are. This one however, is about a female entrepreneur that dreamed of running her own farm. For a long time, Gloria was an employee working as a coffee picker on others farms. She realized that going into business […]

31Oct

Guatemala La Senda: A New Coffee and a New Process

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We have a friend named Thomas Pingen who spends his days traveling through Central & South America helping farms improve the quality of their coffees through experimental processing techniques. When the quality goes up, so does the price of the coffee and this allows the farm to reinvest in themselves and hopefully get on path […]

13Jun

An Interview with Hugo Gonzalez

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Farm: El Eden Farm Owner: Hugo Gonzalez Age: 50 Hugo, a 3rd generation coffee farmer, purchased the land on which he grows his coffee 5 years ago. Due to rising temperatures brought on by Climate Change, Hugo’s first farm started to become susceptible to coffee insects (the Borer Beetle) as well as coffee rust (Roya). […]

02Feb

A little Competition and a lot of Camaraderie

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This will be our 2nd year entering the US Coffee Championships for Barista and Roasting. These competitions are what help push us to become better coffee professionals, which in turn benefits our customers and wholesale partners back home. Not only do we elevate as professionals in our field, but competing also allows us to take awesome road […]

07Nov

What is the Cup of Excellence?

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COE stands for “Cup of Excellence” and is a coffee competition held by ACE “Alliance for Coffee Excellence” in coffee producing countries like El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Brasil, Colombia, Burundi, Peru, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. Basically, it’s a competition where craftsman coffee farmers submit their best coffees of that season to be judged and scored […]

03Oct

El Fuego: A Dark Roast

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After 5 years of roasting coffee with a focus on highlighting the inherent flavor properties found within each bean, why would we decide to do a dark roast? Well, to be honest there are two reasons. Both reasons are pretty simple. The first reason is the simple fact that there is a large percentage […]

14Jul

Back to the Farm: Colombia La Falda

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I’ve been traveling to Colombia since 2012 when I had a phone call with the original founder of Starbucks, Gordon Bowker. During that time, we were primarily roasting and selling Hawaiian coffees as this was our only direct source. As Gordon Bowker put it, “You’re like a wine store with only good Merlot. You’ve got […]

02Jun

Our journey to Kenya to find the Best Coffee

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When I stepped off the plane in Africa there was an energy in the air. It was 11pm in Nariobi and about 70 degrees. As my cab traveled towards my hotel we passed a herd of Zebras just outside the Airport entrance. I’d been waiting for 6 years to travel to Kenya to purchase our […]

11May

Reduce Your Carbon Footprint With Composting

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By: Ashley Bodine We are excited to announce that beginning this week, in conjunction with International National Compost Awareness Week, we will be reducing our carbon footprint on an even larger scale by composting all of our spent coffee grounds. Each year, more than 1 BILLION pounds of spent coffee grounds end up in landfills. […]

25Apr

Cold Brew Season Has Arrived

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By: Austin Redington Spring and summer are on the way, and for coffee shops around the world that means iced coffee season is upon us. But are all iced coffees created equally? Not even close. Three of the most common styles of iced coffee are served at our cafe: Cold brew -Japanese iced pour […]

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