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...

Brewing with a Pour Over

The pour over, so simple and yet so delicious. Ever wonder what all the hype is about? It is, after all, just manually poured water through coffee grounds and a filter, much like what happens with ...

How Much Coffee Should I Use?

It’s a common question I hear all the time: how much coffee should I use? It depends on how much volume you are brewing. This is where ratio’s come into play. Knowing the correct coffee to water ra...

Nitro Cold Brew Popsicle Recipe

We all love cold brew, so why not make popsicles for the summertime?!