Posted in Blends, New Coffee, road coffee, tagged starbucks, Pike Place Blend, wall street journal on July 4, 2008 | No Comments »
I was catching up on my pile of this week’s Wall Street Journal today, and saw an article about customer reception to Starbuck’s new Pike Place Blend. I’d include a link to the online version, but it’s subscriber-only. Suffice it to say that many regular SBUX customers are unhappy with the new brew, [...]
Posted in New Coffee, inventory, tagged aged sumatra on June 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Who knew that there was such a demand for earthy, funky and downright different coffee? I keep increasing the inventory level, and the stock outs happen more frequently! So I’m moving up to sack level purchases on this one. I should have a new (ha!) sack of the ‘05 crop in within a couple weeks. [...]
Posted in Local Coffee of the Week, New Coffee, real food, tagged Blends, mocha java, mokha java, New Coffee on June 25, 2008 | No Comments »
No, it has nothing to do with chocolate. There is no chocolate in this coffee. It is not flavored coffee. It does not taste like chocolate. Well, ok, maybe there are some chocolate notes. But it’s not flavored!
There, I’ve dispensed with the FAQs for Mocha Java. This blend is named after the port of Mokha [...]
Posted in New Coffee, Recipes, Tips, tagged boldgrain, chocolate, ethiopia, harrar, iced coffee, mocha java "harrar style", raspberry on June 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Another iced coffee recipe that people seemed to like:
Brew up one liter or so of Mocha Java “Harrar Style”, or some straight Ethiopian Harrar Boldgrain - substitute other coffees with fruit notes, maybe a Costa Rica if necessary. Add a couple tablespoons of chocolate syrup; Hershey’s will work. Add a quarter cup of [...]
Posted in Fair Trade, New Coffee, Organic, tagged Organic, Fair Trade, New Coffee, el salvador, el salvador flag, el jabali, wild boar on June 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Remember when Mom used to tell you “your eyes are bigger than your stomach”? Boy, is that ever the way I feel right now. But I still can’t get enough!
This time we’ve added a superb new Central American. Direct from the nation of El Salvador, we have just added the coveted “El Jabali”, a Certified [...]
Posted in New Coffee, tagged experiment, flavored coffee on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Regular readers will recall that we are contemplating offerings of flavored coffee, at least on a very limited basis to specific accounts that have requested them. Consumer demand seems to be there, too. I have been an idealist to some extent, preferring unadulterated coffees, and a pragmatist, knowing that flavors add another layer of complexity [...]
Posted in New Coffee, tagged New Coffee, ethiopia, harrar, harar, boldgrain, bold grain on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
This one took me by surprise. I expected to like it. I didn’t expect to love it, or to buy it. But it jumped off the cupping table and assaulted me with its massive berry taste - blueberry, raspberry, and even cherries, yet with just a medium acidity and that distinctive mocca flavor. Delicious and [...]
Posted in New Coffee, tagged New Coffee, decaffeinated, ethiopia, sidamo, dry processed, water process on June 2, 2008 | No Comments »
So much coffee, so little time… here’s another one on the web site, a dry-process Sidamo that was water process decaffeinated. Confused? Don’t be - dry processing refers to the method of removing the seed (bean) from the fruit after harvest. Dry processing generally results in a more rustic, earthy cup, in addition to whatever [...]
Posted in New Coffee, tagged New Coffee, mocha java, harrar, harar, mohka java, moka java, harrar style, ethiopia flag on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »
For a guy that normally only does a few new blends per year, this has been a pretty prolific few months. My philosophy on blending is that I only do a new blend when one suggests itself for some reason - a special occassion, a special place, or most likely, a special coffee reveals itself. [...]
Posted in New Coffee, tagged New Coffee, aged sumatra, aged coffee, earthy, funky on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »
We were out of Aged Sumatra for a few weeks, but all is right with the world again. If you have an uncontrollable urge to drink edgy, pungent, super-funky, brooding coffee, today is your lucky day. Which makes it my lucky day, because I really dig this stuff. And I was due for a lucky [...]
