In the Grinder - Our Daily Coffee Weblog

The Costa Microlots have landed in Houston, and will be here next week.
Included in this are:

Tarrazu-La Violeta Agrivid Micro Mill
Tarrazu-La Cuesta Puente Ecologico Micro Mill "Honey" Preparation.
West Valley-Naranjo Lomas Al Rio Micro Mill "Honey" Preparation.
West Valley-Zarcero Guillio Estate Micro Mill
West Valley-Naranjo Lomas Al Rio
Tarrazu-San Marcos Don Mayo Micro Mill "Honey" Preparation
West Valley-Llano Bonita Helsar Micro Mill
SHB EP Cerro Canet Honey

The largest lot is 100 bags, and the smallest is 7. Please check out our offering list for cupping notes.
Thanks.

If you're in need of Utz-certified coffees, our Brazil Faz Cachoeira Yellow Bourbon is Utz-eligible.
Contact us for more details. Thanks.

Era Ora

A Coffee Report from a Copenhagen Bar?

Ok, I am sitting at the bar with a half liter of Carlsberg getting ready to meet up with some friends to head off to Christianhaven to a local restaurant named Era Ora. What’s this all have to do with coffee? Actually, a lot.

First of all, the restaurant’s name in Italian means “about time.” That sums up both the city and the quest for boutique coffees. The restaurant is a slow food place where the food is seasonal, deliberate, and lovingly created.

That’s it! That’s true specialty coffee!! It’s about time, and using it correctly. Not rushing through life, but experiencing it.

My quest for coffee in Copenhagen has forced me to sit at many Cafes drinking many espressos (and beer and wine) and I found a place with single origins and a Clover, believe it or not.

The Kenyan was bright, slight berry tones, and grapefruit acidity. The Guatemala was bright, but came off a bit baggy too, but overall a decent cup in this land of Italian Espresso from the company that provides the cute little cups with blue lettering.

Well, off to stroll the streets to a long dinner, fine spirits (and a bit of secondhand smoke tossed in for free!)

Tak!

Jason

We received another small shipment of Jamaican last Friday. There are 600# remaining.
Our Jamaican comes from Mavis Bank. A little information is below:

Only coffees grown at elevations between 3,000 and 5,500 feet may be called Jamaica Blue Mountain. Coffee grown at elevations between 1,500 and 3,000 feet is called Jamaica High Mountain, and coffee grown below 1,500 foot elevation is called Jamaica Supreme or Jamaica Low Mountain. (All land in Jamaica above 5,500 feet is a forest preserve, so no coffee is grown there.)

The Munn family started the Mavis Bank company in 1885 at a slightly higher location than it is now, called Strawberry Hill.

This coffee is $20/lb and available in increments of 10#.