Local Coffee of the Week – Feb 28

This week’s Local Coffee of the Week is our Ethiopia Organic Yirgacheffe from the Oromia Cooperative, roasted light to allow the floral and fruited nuance to shine through.  Astute readers will notice that the price changed slightly from last week (yes, it went up), so I thought I would explain.  I spent some time this [...]

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New Decaffeinated

I just added a new decaffeinated blend to the web site, our Vienna Blend decaf.  I’ve done this one for a few years now, I’m just now getting around to adding it to the inventory.  This is my all-purpose decaf that I use myself when I want a night time coffee.  I like it because [...]

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In God We Trust. All Others Bring Data.

These were the words that adorned the office wall of the statistician who trained and mentored me early in my career. They were true then, and remain so now. Despite the temptation to trust our guts (and the subsequent success of Blink, which I still don’t quite understand), I’ve found time and time [...]

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Local Coffee of the Week

Thursdays are always roast days, when we prepare to supply subscribing customers and local markets. We thought it would be nice to offer our local customers the ability to take advantage of some economies of scale – it’s not much more work to throw some extra pounds in a Thursday batch, so we are offering [...]

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Want better coffee?

Of course I’m going to suggest that you buy fresher beans, fresh is more important than varietal, in my opinion. I’ll take just about anything fresh over a six-month-old, formerly exquisite Cup of Excellence, any day. But beyond fresh beans, there’s something else you can do to make better coffee – grind them yourself [...]

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Complaining of Roaster Smoke

Somebody sent this link to my attention today. This is exactly the reason we installed a zero-emission roaster. Of course zero-emission has been possible for forever if you wanted to burn prodigious amounts of fuel with an afterburner. Our Revelation roaster is zero-emission with just 10% of the energy consumption of a [...]

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The King is dead. Long live the King!

And in this case, corn is the new King. What in the world, you may ask, does that title have to do with coffee, or more importantly, you? We’ll get to that, I promise.

We spent the day today at CoffeeFest. If this sounds like fun, then I should explain that while it [...]

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Need that European Espresso Fix?

Jonesing for a fix of that great espresso or a little cappuccino like you had over there? Our new (well, new to the website) Café Terrace espresso blend brewed in the Bialetti Dama will fix you right up.
The Thanksgiving Blend is back, too, but not for long, can’t keep that darn Kona in inventory.
Keep [...]

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Coupla New Organics in Inventory

Just added to the website:
Brazil Organic Fazenda Catuaí, a sweet, chocolate little number that in addition to being an outstanding coffee is a really good single origin espresso.
Colombia Tierradentro Organic Cauca, lighter and brighter than the Huila (offered at a special price right now) we also have in stock. Nice cup. This place [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day

Give somebody a big kiss.  (latte art heart from wikiHow)
http://www.muddydogcoffee.com

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