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January 2023 - If You're Gonna Put Your Name Something!

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January 2023’s Coffee OriginHonduras - Nancy Hernandez - Finca El Jasmin - Micro Lot Natural & Sun Dried New Year, New Coffees!We have an exciting year of coffees...

December 2022 - Gotta Know Your Roots

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December 2022’s Coffee OriginYemen - Zamarrud - Natural & Sun Dried Yemen was integral to the worldwide popularity of coffee as we know it today. While the historic origins...

November 2022 - Holiday Blend Season Here We Come!

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November 2022’s Coffee OriginEthiopia - Gera Estate - Natural Anaerobic This month's coffee selection is what holiday dreams blend are made of.  While it can be enjoyed as a...

October 2022 - Our Second Honduras - It's About Cupping Time

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October 2022’s Coffee Origin - Honduras Lennon Diaz Finca 'Liquidambar' We were looking through our notes and noticed that the last Honduras offering we Cupped together was during the black hole that...

September 2022 - Where the Cup Did Summer Go?

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September 2022’s Coffee Origin - Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Adame Gorbota It feels like just yesterday that the mornings were warming and the nights were  ...come to think of it, the last three...

August 2022 - Back to the Start - Well Kind of!

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August 2022’s Coffee Origin - Colombia Tolima Suave - OrganicI remember as a child in the 70's and 80's hearing commercials that would boast 100% Colombian Coffee.  I remember imitating the...

July 2022 - Uganda AA - The Other Side of the Mountain

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July 2022’s Coffee Origin - Uganda AA - Bugisu Bluesky EstatesThe Other Side of the Mountain Was All That We Could TasteLast month, we Cupped a coffee from Ndaro-Ini Kenya. This month's...

June 2022 - Kenya AA - Ndaro-Ini (Place of Rest)

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June 2022’s Coffee Origin - Kenya AA - Ndaro-IniEmpowering the CommunityFrom the smallholder farmers to the exporter this month's coffee is all about community empowerment.  We don't usually talk much about exporters...

May 2022 - Tanzanian Peaberry and a Giant Meteorite

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May 2022’s Coffee Origin - Tanzania Mbeya Mimba Estate - PeaberryOur Second Tanzanian PeaberryBack in March of 2021, we cupped a Tanzanian Peaberry (Lyamungo - Africa Plantation Kilimanjaro Estate) to see if...

April 2022 - Co-op's, Working Together to Do More!

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April 2022’s Coffee Origin - Ethiopian - Yirgacheffe WochemaNatural Processed, Organic & Fair TradeCoffee Correction: The label on your coffee bag says, Fully Washed and Sun Dried. The coffee in the bag...