“Buna Dante” Yirgacheffe Now Available

Our relationship Yirgacheffe is now available!  This seems like a good time/place to update you on this coffee, as well as a few other items I’ve been thinking about.
First, about this coffee… it will rock your world.  It’s that good.  I usually don’t name drop competitors here, but this is the same coffee sold by [...]

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Ethiopia Day 5: Cupping Harars, or, Who Moved My Spoon?

The second day of our conference began like many days in Ethiopia: with a traditional coffee ceremony.  I would learn later in the trip that the setting of the ceremony greatly influences how much I enjoyed them; at this point, the only coffee ceremonies I had seen were in the lobby of hotels, and I [...]

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Ethiopia, Day 3: The Drive to Dire Dawa, or, Donkeys and Goats and Camels, Oh My!

[For those joining our program in progress, Jim is traveling in Ethiopia from Feb 16 through March 1st in search of great coffees and lasting relationships with the people who produce it. These notes are brief insights into the success of the trip. I will be adding images in upcoming weeks, but the bandwidth  [...]

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Ethiopia: Day Two, Continued or Making Friends and Influencing People

[For those joining our program in progress, Jim is traveling in Ethiopia from Feb 16 through March 1st in search of great coffees and lasting relationships with the people who produce it. These notes are brief insights into the success of the trip.]
What a long, strange trip it’s been. And while I’m now [...]

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Size Matters….

I’m talking about coffee bags.  What did you think I was talking about?  The song by Joe Nichols?
This has been an enduring debate here at the roastery.  It was something we didn’t give a lot of thought to in the beginning; we rolled out the company offering retail put-ups in half and full pounds.  That’s [...]

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Famine Relief in Ethiopia

I’ve been corresponding with EthiopiAID, a UK-based charity focused on Ethiopia.  Please see part of the correspondence with them, below.  We have decided to donate a portion of profits from sale of Ethiopian coffees to EthiopiAID.  Our donation is nothing compared to the $70 million sent by the US last week, but every bit helps.  [...]

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Chocolate Raspberry Iced Coffee

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 [...]

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Orange-Infused Iced Coffee

We sampled an orange-infused iced coffee today, and people asked for the recipe:
Brew a liter (or so) of Ethiopia Yirgacheffe.  You need a light citrusy coffee, others may do if you feel they have the right flavor profile.  While the coffee is still hot, slice up an orange and throw the slices in the hot [...]

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More New Arrivals – Ethiopian Harrar Boldgrain

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 [...]

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New decaffeinated in stock – Ethiopia Sidamo

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 [...]

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