Standing Stone Coffee’s Seasonal Select has been green graded, sample roasted, finalized and is ready for brewing! This time around Greg and I have chosen a fair trade organic (FTO) Peru. A light-to-medium roast, this coffee will be great for a winter day. Quite complex, it offers aromatics of hazelnut and vanilla. With a light [...]
Once the wet or dry processing of the beans is completed, the workers will move the beans to the large cement patios to dry in the sun. They continue to rake through the beans to help the drying process and to eliminate any molding that would occur. When the beans have been dried to the [...]
Now that the cherries are a vibrant ripe red (with the exception of the Brazil Yellow Bourbon), they are ready for the picking process. At our select farms, the cherries are picked by hand. Each farmer is meticulous about the cherries in which he is picking, as most of them will go over a tree [...]
Come with me as I take you on a journey through the process of coffee: from the farm to your cup! Did you know that coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to oil, earning $60 billion annually? 25 million farmers around the world depend on coffee as their staple income. [...]
While doing some late night reading of my monthly magazine (that, I admit, has nothing to do with coffee), I came across an article that highlighted this quote: “The first cup you are a stranger; the second cup an honored quest; the third cup you are family.” – Greg Mortenson As you may be familiar [...]
Just a couple months ago I began the process of training our new roaster, Kim. It was quite an experience for me because I had to reflect on why we do everything we do related to coffee at the shop, and then turn it into a training curriculum to pass on this knowledge base effectively. [...]