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2017, coffee roasters, july, top coffee beans - August 03, 2017

Top Coffee Beans, July 2017

It's August now, and we are taking a trip down the short-term memory lane to look at the most popular coffee beans by sales for July of 2017. It's been a long month of developing new features and fixing bugs, but we are PLEASED AS HOOT to see these 5 beans take the lead. Below I've listed out the beans in list form, so you can check out more details, or get to ordering your own Top 5! Ethiopia - Ardi Natural Sidamo, Boston Stoker Coffee Co. Guatemala - La Voz, La Fabrica Coffee Roasters Costa Rica - Coopetarrazu, Firelight...

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coffee marketplace, team updates - July 31, 2017

August 2017 Marketplace Update

This August is a doozy. We've been fixing bugs in our platform and finalizing the style of beans we bring to you, the coffee drinker. Our aim is to start focusing on the coffee beans that are available (more or less) year round... The blends, and farm direct beans tend to be easier to keep in stock and fresh all year and thus we can begin to explore subscriptions to one bean only, or a selection of flavors and styles. But what about the single origin beans? Worry not! These will be listed as "seasonal" or "limited release" based upon...

2 New Roasters Added To The Marketplace!

Let's welcome two new roasters to our Marketplace: La Fabrica is a multinational coffee roaster, but in an unexpected way. They work directly with coffee farmers in Guatemala, so direct in fact, they also operate a cafe in Guatemala! Beans are sent up to New Hampshire to be roasted and shipped in the USA, lucky for us! If you're a fan of Guatemalan coffee beans, you need to try theirs out. It's an amazing roast. Located in Kansas City's historic West Bottoms, Blip has seen some trials as a business. The building they were in burned, destroying their entire...

Roasting the Tax Season in Houston

Houston, forever immortalized in space geek's minds as "mission control", is the largest city in the South, and 4th largest in the USA. Knowing that fact you would come to expect that the coffee scene would rival that of NYC, LA, SF and Seattle. You would be right! There are over a dozen roasters in town, and many times that number of locally owned cafes - all pushing the envelope of what it means to have a good cup of coffee. Narrowing down the field was a difficult move, one that took us a lot of consideration - and negotiating! We...

March on in to Lincoln

This March we explore the state where Kool-Aid was invented, the land of corn, the one and only Nebraska! We visited a while back for the Big Omaha Conference, and were taken back by how much the cities have embraced the third wave coffee culture. It was only a matter of time before we ventured back to feature a few new roasters that are doing their town justice on the coffee front. Lincoln, NebraskaLincoln is the capital of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers 92.81 square miles with a population of...