Our current coffee offerings

Here are our current offerings -- we still have our staple single origin coffees from Colombia, Ethiopia, Sumatra, and Honduras.

Our current Colombia is from the Tolima department that lies between the cities of Bogata and Cali.This coffee is high grown at over 1600 meters by an indigenous group producers who reinvest the premium from organic coffee to increase the quality of their coffee and provide social programs for the local children.

I believe this is the very last switch for us -- our natural process Ethiopia is from the Shanta Golba coop in Sidamo, a member of the larger Sidamo Coffee Farmers Cooperative. Harvested from heirloom cultivars, this coffee is sundried on raised beds, a complex cup, very sweet with notes of strawberry and jam.

For a short while we had more of our favorite Sumatra from the women owned Ketiara coop, but that's gone and at the moment we have another fine exaple of the breed from the Gayo Leuser Antara coop in Aceh in the northern part of the island. It's also processed by the "wet hulled" method which is explained clearly here.

Our base for French roast continues to be Honduras coffee from Marcala, a municipality in the department of La Paz. "Marcala" was among the first "protected origin denominations" for coffee in Central America. The 62 member COMSA coop uses the money from its fair trade status to help fund schools and teachers for the families of its workers.

In decaf, we are using Royal Coffee's Royal Select™ water process, which, although a tad below CO₂, is quite good for a water processed decaf and certainly is far better than Swiss Water™. Our current selection is a natural process from Ethiopia that's tasty even if it is decaf and makes an excellent decaf espresso as well.

Our current coffees -- all 2.5kg bags are $54, all 1kg bags are $24 (USD):

We still enjoy being contrarians so our packages are all metric sizes. The industry standard 5lb bag you see everywhere is, for us, a 2.5 kilogram pack (that's 5.51 pounds). We have also a 1 kilogram (2.2 pound) package. Prices are USD per single package of 2.5kg or 1kg of a single coffee. All prices are FOB Asheville, NC 28801, and are subject to change without notice. (Please see this page for more details on shipping costs and methods.)

We prefer to ship only whole bean coffee, but if you insist, we'll grind at no charge. We'll try to grind to your specification but we can not guarantee that the grind will be optimum for your brewing method. Weights shown are for whole bean. Ground weight may be slightly lower because some chaff is lost when grinding, there may be additional outgassing of CO₂, or we may spill some.

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