COFFEE ORIGINS
Information about our coffees and the origin countries we source from.
What our coffees consist of:
100% Brazil Coffee
Medium or dark roasted pure Brazilian coffee, single origin. Tasting notes include nutty hints and sweet chocolate. This coffee is grown at an elevation of 3,600 feet in the São Paulo state. Popular as a dark roast coffee and makes great espresso with its unique espresso flavor. Coffee was brought to Brazil in the 18th Century and for over 150 years Brazil has been the largest producer of coffee with over 10,000 square miles of coffee plants. Many Italians looking for work moved to Brazil in the early 1900’s after learning there was enormous demand for workers in the coffee fields, and much was then exported back to Italy making the coffees of Brazil very popular throughout Europe over time.
100% Colombian Coffee
Medium roasted pure Colombian coffee, single origin. Well balanced with tasting notes that include mild red fruit, toffee, cocoa, dried apples and a fairly mild to heavy body. Grown in the Antioquia and Calda mountain regions at elevations between 3,800 and 4,400 feet. Coffee plants were first documented as being present in Colombia around 1730 but it is not known for sure how it ended up there or for how long. Environmentally friendly washed processing, sun dried and hand selected.
African Kahawa Blend Coffee
A very complex medium-dark roast of bright full flavor African grown coffees. Enjoy hints of toffee, caramel, chocolate, raisins, green apples, red fruits and even hints of cherries and black currant with a soft floral finish. Coffee cherries are often processed by hand at the home of the farmers after being hand picked. Quality standards are high and farmers adhere to these strict standards with environmentally friendly processing, washing the beans and leaving in the sun to dry, then hand sorting and packaging.
Asian Plateau Blend Coffee
A medium roast containing blended coffees of Southeast Asia offering herbal flavor notes and a heavy body. This coffee offers consistent flavor, a strong aroma and is best as a hot coffee drink. Grown under the full sun with washed processing that is environmentally friendly.
Breakfast Blend Coffee
A lightly roasted blend of South American coffees that are perfect as an early sunrise roast. Tasting notes include walnuts, mild apple, slight raisin and toffee. Environmentally friendly washed processing and sun dried. This coffee is both partial sun and full sun grown at high mountain elevations.
Cold Brew Blend Coffee
A blend of coffees from Africa, Central and South America. Offers deep earth notes and a very heavy body making this blend perfect for Cold Brew coffee.
Cold brew coffee is a special blend of unique coffee beans that offer deep earth tones. Similar to tea, cold brew coffee is steeped, and once finished the grounds are filtered out. This offers a concentrated coffee, well balanced and bold, that is often consumed by mixing with milk or just water, served over ice. Cold brew coffee uses prolonged time for brewing, unlike hot coffee, which extracts the oils, sugars and caffeine from the beans. This results in a coffee drink that is less acidic (making it popular with people who have sensitive stomachs) and it’s also less bitter than hot coffee. Cold brew coffee is a dark French roast and the grounds are very coarse. It’s easy to make, even with a couple mason jars and a filter, or with a coffee maker made specifically for cold brew. YouTube also shows many methods of making cold brew coffee at home with items already in your kitchen.
Fancy Donut Shop Coffee
A light-medium roast coffee blend featuring coffees with tasting notes that include cocoa, caramel, toffee and mild fruits. A perfectly balanced morning coffee that offers a stronger flavor when compared to the lighter breakfast blends.
French Roast Blend Coffee
A deep dark roast of our highest scoring African coffees offering a bold, rich coffee flavor. The beans are shiny with an oil sheen and offer a bittersweet flavor with low acidity.
House Blend Coffee
A medium roast blend of select coffees from Central and South America that is smooth, clean and consistent for a flavorful cup every time. Features a medium body with tasting notes that include nutty, sweet chocolate, mild citrus and a clean bright finish. These blended coffees are both natural/dry processed and wet mill washed/sun dried. These techniques are friendly to the environment, the rain forests and the living creatures of the high elevation mountains where these coffees are grown.
Italian Roast Blend Coffee
An extra dark oily roast made from Central American coffees for deep, heavy coffee flavor. Origin characteristics are diminished and acidity is non-existent.
Latin American Blend Coffee
A medium-dark roast of select Latin American coffees perfectly blended for full flavor, offering nutty hints with mild fruity tones and a gentle cocoa aftertaste. Shade grown in the Central American rain forests and in volcanic soil near the Amazon rain forest, these blended coffees make a rich, delicious cup. Environmentally friendly washed processing and full sun dried for up to 7 days.
Some of our favorite coffee origins for creating perfect blends
Brazil
Tasting notes include nutty hints and sweet chocolate. This coffee is grown at an elevation of 3,600 feet in the São Paulo state. It's popular as a dark roast coffee and makes great espresso with it's unique espresso type flavors. It's also a popular blend ingredient for cold brew coffees with a malt texture. Brazil is in South America. The country is located below Colombia and to the east of Peru. Brazil is the world's largest producer of coffee.
Ingredients: 100% Arabica Coffee.
Burundi
Tasting notes include mandarin orange, rich semi-sweet chocolate, caramel and an ultra heavy body with a mildly sweet finish. This coffee is grown at an elevation over 5,700 feet. A very heavy bodied drink with a sweet and bright finish make this a favorite. Beans are of the Bourbon variety. Burundi is in East Africa, in the African Great Lakes region. Rwanda is to the north, Congo to the west and to the east (and south) is Tanzania.
Ingredients: 100% Fair Trade Organic Arabica Coffee.
Cameroon
Tasting notes include a heavy body, toffee, chocolate and caramel with hints of molasses and blackberry. This coffee is grown at an elevation of 7,200 feet on the side of Mount Kilum. Cameroon is famous for white honey, and with this large population of bees the coffee plants receive lots of assistance in pollination. Coffee here was brought in the early 1900's from Jamaica, and this Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee flourished in the ideal climate conditions of Cameroon where the shade grown coffee is under the banana trees. Location is in central Africa. To its west is the Gulf of Guinea which is eventually the ocean further west, and to its north is Nigeria.
Ingredients: 100% Arabica Coffee.
Colombia
Tasting notes include toffee, apples and a fairly heavy body. This coffee is grown in the Antioquia and Calda regions at elevations between 3,800 and 4,400. Colombia is in South America at its northern tip and borders Ecuador and Venezuela. Nicaragua is to the north.
Ingredients: 100% Arabica Coffee.
Costa Rica
Tasting notes include raisins, walnut and green apples with a medium body. This coffee is grown at an elevation of 5,900 feet in the higher mountain peaks of the Tarrazu growing region of the San Jose province. This province is known for the best coffee beans in the country. The bean variety is Arabica and includes a well balanced mix of Caturra and Catuai varieties. To the west of Tarrazu is the Dota growing region where some world renowned coffee beans are also grown. Costa Rica is in Central America with Nicaragua to the north and Panama to the south. East of the country is the Caribbean Sea and to the west is the Pacific Ocean.
Ingredients: 100% Arabica Coffee
El Salvador
Tasting notes include nuts, chocolate, brown sugar and a heavy body. This coffee is grown at an elevation of 3,600 feet with Arabica bean varieties that include Pacas, Caturra and Bourbon. It is harvested in the Apaneca Mountains where coffee plants are surrounded by fruit trees, offering a perfect shade grown environment. El Salvador is in Central America. Guatemala is to its northwest and Honduras to the northeast. Moving south you would enter Nicaragua.
Ingredients: 100% Arabica Coffee.
Honduras
Tasting notes include caramel, red fruits and chocolate. This coffee is grown at an elevation of 4,500 feet in the Intibuca Department of the Western Highlands. The mountains are full of pine and oak trees, with valleys covered in vegetation due to the tropical soils that are always full of moisture. Honduras is in Central America with Guatemala and Belize to the north. The southern border includes El Salvador and Nicaragua.
Ingredients: 100% Arabica Coffee
Laos
Tasting notes include cigar tobacco and herbs. This coffee is grown at an elevation of 3,300 feet just south of the Salavan region border in a field at the top end of a waterfall. Coffee from Laos is preferred over the similar Sumatran coffees because its flavor is consistent from one harvest to the next, bringing the same unique flavor year round. Bordering countries around Laos include Thailand, Vietnam, China, Mynamar and Cambodia.
Ingredients: 100% Arabica Coffee.
Nicaragua
Tasting notes include sweet, citric, caramel and a bright finish with an occasional hint of milk chocolate. This coffee is grown at an elevation of 4,900 feet in the northern part of the Matagalpa region. It's a mixed Arabica variety of Caturra, Catuai, and Maragogipe coffee beans, which brings this coffee's unique flavor together. Nicaragua is in Central America just south of El Salvador and Honduras. South of its border is Colombia, the beginning of South America.
Ingredients: 100% Arabica Coffee.
Peru
Tasting notes include chocolate, caramel, almond, raisin and a heavy body. This coffee comes from the central Peruvian province of Huanauco and is grown at an elevation of 6,200 feet. The region was once the home of the Inca Empire. It's warm in the day and cool at night with an average temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit, making it perfect for growing great coffee beans. Peru is located in South America on the western edge, below Colombia and west of Brazil. Bolivia is to its south.
Ingredients: 100% Arabica Coffee.
Papua New Guinea
Tasting notes include a heavy body with flavors of mandarin orange, caramel and chocolate. This coffee is grown at an elevation of 5,300 feet in the northern part of the Eastern Highlands, which is near the central area of the country. This area is full of mountains and valleys, making it a perfect place to grow fantastic coffee. Some mountain areas reach over 12,000 feet elevation. Often, this coffee is referred to as PNG coffee. Papua New Guinea is in the southwest Pacific Ocean, just north of Australia.
Ingredients: 100% Arabica Coffee.
Rwanda
Tasting notes include cherries, nectarines and black currant. This coffee is grown at an elevation of 6,200 feet in the western province, not far from Lake Kivu, home to many mountain gorillas. The coffee grown here is Robusta and Arabica. Rwanda is in East Africa. To the north is Uganda, and to the south is Burundi. West of the country you would enter the Congo, and to the east, Tanzania or Kenya.
Ingredients: 100% Arabica Coffee.
Tanzania
Tasting notes include chocolate, cherries and caramel. This coffee is grown at an elevation of 5,900 feet in the southern highlands of Mbeya growing region. The French brought coffee plants here in the 1800's and in the 1920's India moved coffee here because of the ideal growing climate. Tanzania, like Brazil and Peru in South America, sits just below the equator, providing similar conditions for coffee plantations. Tanzania is located in East Africa. To the west is Rwanda and the Congo. To the east is the Indian Ocean. Heading north you would enter Burundi or Kenya, and south of the country is Mozambique.
Ingredients: 100% Arabica Coffee
Uganda
Tasting notes include chocolate, raisins and green apples. This coffee is grown at an elevation of 5,900 feet on the south eastern edge of the country where rain forests are plentiful, in the Mount Elgon Volcano region. The volcano sits at the border of Uganda and Kenya. The area is home to baboons, blue monkeys, elephants, buffalo, over 300 species of birds, aardvarks and more. Dense forests populate much of the area and valleys of coffee, orchids, ferns and floral plants are common. Uganda is in East Africa, with Kenya to its east, Rwanda to the south, South Sudan to the north and the Congo to the west.
Ingredients: 100% Rain Forest Alliance Arabica Coffee.