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This is a new one for us, as rich as the Guatemala El Cuervo we used to get, but with less of the tobacco-ey notes. It's a Guatemalan blend from three different farms where Intelligentsia has Direct Trade relationships.

We’re a strange bunch here.  Sure we’re in the coffee business but we’re trying to serve something more than just “regular coffee”.  Each day we’re offering something that you’d look forward to drinking and not just a hot cup of brown water that delivers caffeine to the system.  We actually pay double

Each week, we get The Nod - the e-mail newsletter from our roaster, Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea. Usually, the content of said Nod is rather interesting, and worth passing on to you. Last week, the Nod arrived in my inbox and I opened it and it was long. Real long. Perusing it, I could tell it would be interesting.

Two new coffees are here this week, available by press pot or pourover. So far, only Belle has cupped the Finca San Jose, none of us have tried the others. So for now we're going to give you tasting notes from Intelligentsia's cuppers: - Kenya Gaturiri.

Yesterday was the online auction for the 2008 Honduras Cup of Excellence competition, and Fratello Coffee is happy to say, that we have won another Lot of coffee, and are the ONLY Canadian company to win one.   This is always an exciting process, and is particularly long, when you are also one of the

A walk in a misty morning and a sidelong glance across the Bay brings on other musings. The hurried warmth of an expresso in my hand brings on a sense of the long connections of this land, not with the coffee and Brazil, but between here and the sub-tropical Gulf of Mexico to the South, the Prairies and the fastnesses to the West.

Counter Culture Coffee recently launched its Direct Trade program. It is a natural progression from their Source project, and is a robust example of similar models employed by other roasters, most notably Intelligentsia. Counter Culture is a pioneer, however, in...

FINALLY finished the new daily menu- it’s a new format encompassing our current by the cup coffee and tea offerings.  It also includes retail prices if you want to take a bag home with you.  Remember that our prices now include 7% tax.  Look for this to be updated every time we get in something new.  We’ll have copies in the store for you to take as well.

When you work in a business long enough, you know what it is and what it is not.  Each time you make a change to the business it either feels good or it doesn’t.  Each step is an evolution of sorts, a further refinement of what you believe the business should ultimately be.  You begin to really focus

Today Counter Culture Coffee unveiled it’s new Direct Trade program, which they say is the first third-party certified direct trade seal. Counter Culture will partner with Quality Certification Services to guarantee that the company’s selected coffees meet the following standards: 1.