Category: Coffee Beans

What’s the Best Way to Store Your Coffee?

At this point you have your favorite coffee roast and you want to keep its aroma and distinct flavor  throughout the use of your entire bag. What do you do now? Store it in the fridge, the freezer, in a  sealed jar away from the sun, in a zip lock baggie, in a tin jar […]

Coffee

bringing the world together one cup at a time? The modern era in the United States and its cutting edge science, its practicality, its fast daily rhythms… from the outside looking in it seems that we have lost an essential element that connects us with the earth and age old traditions of our ancestors, no […]

Cold Brew Coffee

What is cold brew coffee anyways? Is cold brew coffee the same as iced coffee? Why would I choose cold brew over my regular cup of coffee? How does one prepare a cold brew? Are there health benefits to cold brew and am I still getting my caffeine? Cold brewed coffee has gained momentum over […]

Coffee Roasts

For those of you new to the coffee scene or perhaps deepening your relationship with coffee Roasting Coffee: This process is essential to the coffee drinking experience we know today.If you were to just drink the green or red fruit without roasting it it will not give us the flavor or experience we desire in […]

How Much Do You Know About Coffee

Some fun facts that make you go “hmmmm” A fun quiz for your friends and family. What country is the top consumer of coffee? Hint: its a nordic country Answer: Finland The Finish are in the lead at 8-10 cups of coffee a day per person (27.5 lbs of coffee per person annually), some people […]

Coffee Ceremonies From Around The World Chapter 1 Ethiopia

Let’s start in the region where coffee was born, Ethiopia. This country can be found in the northern part of Africa across from Yemen. Ethiopia has a long standing history with coffee, so it’s no surprise the coffee ceremony has developed as a great reverence for the bean the world has come to cherish more […]

Bird Friendly Coffee

Calling birdwatching coffee drinkers, naturalists, earth guardians and  lovers of air and sky! This is a conscious message going out into the “field” to once again support shade grown coffee crops. You may have read my blogs on shade grown coffee and on our coffee tour to Brazil. Shade grown coffee is the clearly sensible […]