Backyard Beans Coffee Company Expands with New Cafe in Ambler

Coffee lovers, we’ve got some good news for you! Backyard Beans Coffee Company expanded into Ambler, with its newest cafe nestled on 22 East Butler Avenue. The company boasts locally-roasted coffee...

What is Anaerobic Processing?

Coffee is always evolving. Recently, innovative coffee producers have been experimenting with anaerobic processing, where coffee is fermented without oxygen. This distinct process—which lends itse...

What are coffee tasting notes?

Because everyone’s senses are different, it can often be difficult to pin down a coffee’s precise flavor. Much like the food we eat, coffee is very chemically complex and we experience it through g...

Specialty Coffee Explained

Specialty coffee is a term used for the type of green coffee that we buy and roast. It is coffee that scores over 80 points based on a 100 point scale. This scale is industry standard and is taken ...

Our Best Year Yet! 2019!

This year we all punched it together! We’re so excited to ring in 2020 and share a few things that we accomplished in 2019. We roasted 118,000 lbs of coffee and brewed 17,500 gallons of cold brew! ...

Peppermint Mocha Recipe

It’s been a pretty quiet winter so far in Lansdale, PA, still dreaming of having a snow day and enjoying a peppermint mocha in front of a snow-fallen sky. So we’re sharing a peppermint mocha recipe...

Processing revisited - Washed Process and Natural Process

When the skin and pulp are removed from the seed of the coffee cherry prior to drying we are talking about the washed process, or wet process. Washed coffees require more machinery, water and infra...

Honduras Hybrid... Parainema?

This year we bought 2 coffees from the Paz families mill, San Vicente, in Santa Barbara Honduras. Santa Barbara is home to some of Honduras’ most striking coffee’s due to their unique growing condi...

What is Honey Processed Coffee?

Let’s rewind a bit. Coffee is grown on small trees, shrubs really, and the bean is actually the seed of a cherry. Coffee is a fruit. Before the cherry grows on the shrub, a coffee blossom appears, ...

Coffee Champs Brewers Cup

There are 4 main competitions and I got to participate in the Brewers Cup event. Matt jumped on a last minute opening the week of the event, so with no prior plan of competing this year, we had 4 d...