Is it the Spring in the air, or just lots of caffeine? Our newer coffees are becoming fast growing hits, and today the Yirgicheffe is back on the menu and a NEW Fair-trade, Organic Mexican Chiapas is ready. It is amazingly clean, earthy, and tasty. Not only sustainable, but each bag creates a donation to a Biosphere Reserve cloud forest.

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Things are crazy out here in the country. A rainy spell put the harvest behind schedule. So everywhere you look, there is harvesting being done right now. Maybe a little caffeine will help things along.
We are currently working on a web-site re-design. Make this friendly, easy to order from, and much better looking.

We will be at the Santa's Workshop in Jefferson later this month, but don't forget that we deliver and offer a low shipping rate.

I left Jefferson to do a few errands today, but stumbled on a few great surprises.

1. Our coffee is FRESH. I fret about getting you coffee less then 3 days old. A week is my absolute limit for anything. I've heard rumors that bags of coffee in grocery stores can be 2 months old on the day they hit the shelves. I know the open bins of bulk coffee are stale, but on every bag of coffee I picked up, teh 'Best if used by date' averaged 10 MONTHS from now!!! The worst was a full year ahead of today. The lowest date I found was 6 months. Was that because that fishy bag was already old, or that they promote fresher coffee? I don't know.
2. We are still cheap! As far as speciality coffee goes, we were at the bottom of the range. Even compared to a few other roasters, we were matching the bottom side of the scale. However, the grocery chains had us all beat by far. Does GBC, or any other speciality coffee compare to the junk you find in stores? No, so we do not compete with them directly.
2a. However, we are offering an Economic Stimulant package for your caffeinated recovery efforts. That's right, $1 off many of our most popular coffees. This, along with our $5 shipping....what a deal

Bonus Day.

Our local friends know that we have free local delivery in Jefferson. Today the weather involved clear skies, sunshine, and 60+ degrees. Today marks the day of our first bicycle powered delivery run. This should become our norm as the weather gets better.

COFFEE NEWS:
I'm about to add Colombian and Panamanian coffees to the menu.

During this past week, we have done our first marketing push. The reaction has been great.

The people who claim to be "the coffee drinkers" by their friends, which probably means they stop at the expensive chain stores, have been giving rave reviews and falling in love. Almost everyone has said what great coffee it was.

The word is getting out too. I was making a delivery to one office, when a co-worker came running up. "You're the one doing coffee!" A reputation perhaps? The best story was from a neighbor who visited one of our tastings. She told us how, since Christmas, she keeps getting a craving for coffee around 10pm. I wonder if it is because I usually roast between 6-8:30pm, and a slight whiff floats across the street.

COFFEE NEWS
Due to an unexpected change, our Moka-Java is NOW 100% Fair Trade and Organic. For some reason, true Mocha coffee beans are not in our country at the moment, so I scoured the shores of the Red Sea for a close comparison. I created a sample roast of an Ethiopian Sidamo, and tasted it side by side with the last of my Yemen mocha. It was a little brighter and had just a little more presence, but had little difference in flavor. Truthfully, about half of the Moka-Java blends out there use an Ethiopian bean over a true Yemen. And being organic certified, I'm willing to make that jump.