au naturale, anyone?

This is the part that I love about this job – adding new coffees to the menu.  Especially naturals, a particular favorite of mine.
For those wondering, a “natural” is also known as a dry-process coffee because the fruit is dried in the sun instead of dunked in water (which results in a “washed” coffee), which [...]

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New Mexico Decaf in the house!

By now you may be getting the idea that I REALLY like Mexican coffee.  One clue is the fact that I have more Mexican offerings than any other origin – five Mexicans at current time!  Right now I’m stocking don Eduardo (also back in the house after an absence!), Oaxaca Mixteca Organic Fair Trade, Chiapas [...]

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The Green Coffee Blues

If there is one thing I’m good at, it’s inventory management.  My graduate degree is in a field related to Operations Research, which is essentially the study of industrial efficiency.  My specialization was in mathematical models, which are used to predict demand, calculate safety stocks to avoid backorders, etc.  For many years, things I learned [...]

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When Pigz Fly

Attention all you North Raleigh customers looking for retail outlets for our coffee!  You can now purchase Muddy Dog coffee at When Pigz Fly, a cool little eclectic artisan shop located at 11125 Six Forks Road.  It’s just north of I-540 on the left side.  It’s kind of easy to drive past (I did the [...]

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New Mexican In The House – Organic Chiapas

I’m half way to a new coffee order, and I’m still listing new coffees from the last one!  I need to get caught up!
I just posted a new organic Mexican, from Chiapas, along the border of Guatemala.  Check out the producer co-operative HERE.  Chiapas coffees are still quite “Mexican” in their flavor profile, but tending [...]

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Organic Breakfast Blend – Now Making Espresso

Talk about embarassing.  Seems the coffee guy was pretty much out of coffee this morning.  This is not a usual occurrence, as you might imagine.  Typically my counters and dining room table are covered with small bags of origins I’m cupping and blends in progress, at a minimum.  But last weekend we had some dinner [...]

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Organic Breakfast Blend – Now Online!

Many of you have been enjoying our Organic Breakfast Blend over the past couple months as we introduced it to our retail customers. We collected your feedback and made a few tweaks along the way, and I’m pleased to report that the popularity of this blend is beginning to rival that of our Old [...]

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They’ve Got a Lot of Coffee in… Peru

It was Brazil that Old Blue Eyes sang about, but probably because he never made it over to Peru.
We have a couple new Peruvian offerings loaded on the web site, now that I’ve figured out the sweet spot for these coffees.  In addition to being brilliant coffees in their own right, they are both Fair [...]

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Believe it or not – more new coffee!

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 [...]

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Thanks for Coming Out

The Cary Downtown Farmers’ Market opened today, and we were there. The night leading up to opening day was quite wild, with wind, rain, thunder and lightening, so we wondered how the attendance would be, or if we would even be able to set up. The weather had cleared, more or less, by [...]

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