Some beautiful new crop coffees from Rwanda, Colombia, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste. Stay tuned, will have in the system Friday and ready to roll!

Stoked to be participating in this annual event highlighting NW beer and coffee producers! Rocking with superb Pono Brewing's Larry Clouser and my favorite sudsmacher John Lovegrove, who got me on this synergistic journey 4 years ago at the Baker's Dozen Coffee beers/beer/donuts/coffee event in Portland. Representing (there will be 20 entries) with Pono's excellent Pineapple Express and calling it...what else...Pineapple Expresso! Two very fine Kenyas, cold brewed. Can drink it all day and just might....

When: Saturday, January 26th, 12:00pm to 7:00pm

Where: Goose Hollow Inn, 1927 SW Jefferson St, Portland, OR 97201

Tickets: Available at the door only. $20 entrance fee includes festival glass and 10 tickets. Credit cards accepted.

...from METAD Agricultural Development PLC. METAD is a third-generation family owned business with a rich history that began after World War II when the Ethiopian Emperor awarded Muluemebet Emiru, the first African female pilot and family matriarch, with land in the Guji and Sidama zones that has become the Hambela Coffee Estate. Our picks are super-tasty...Organic Gedeb Gotiti natural process (a fave in lighter roaster for drip/pourover...darker for espresso lovers, please specify when ordering in the Notes section at checkout) and Guji Hambela washed. Primo Ethio!

More Peru Chasqui will be coming in next Friday Dec. 28...super popular! Happy Holidays to all!

Burundi fans will embrace the new Kiranga Murambi as an alternative to Kenyas...please specify in order notes if you'd like to gift your espresso machine this sweet mediumish roast profile. Complex as a pourover in the regular roast.

Santa loves the smell of roasted coffee in the sleigh...fellow 'Beard!

Will just kick butt with deliciousness when you make it, promise! A specially selected trio of amazing coffees...from Ethiopia, Colombia and Papua New Guinea...makes its debut just in time for holiday consuming or gifting.

A special micropurchase allows us to offer the ULTIMATE Kenya taster, comprising three 8 oz. bags of microlot Gatuya AA, AB and Peaberry. Gatuya Coffee Factory in Murang'a is at the very top of the milling and producing chain in Kenya...hats off to the farmers. Limit 2 per customer. Fantastic treat for Kenya fans and guaranteed to spruce up your Thanksgiving dessert tray!

Too sad....after reading an industry supply article a few weeks ago I went in search of some nice Sulawesi coffees, absent here for far too long, and found raves. Then suddenly, on Sept. 28, came the devastating earthquake and resultant tsunami which resulted in major loss of life and a crippling of infrastructure. The crop cycle was in the thick of harvest and production and while most farms weren't directly hit, Sulawesi's already-frail infrastructure has been dealt a crippling blow. Think Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico...  Next week we will be offering the Sulawesi Sapan with a heavy heart...this coffee left the port there only a couple of months ago. No doubts the North Tana Toraja Region will be feeling the impacts for years. Our great friends at importer (of this and many of our coffees) Royal Coffee in Emeryville, CA has made charitable contributions towards $50,000 in the relief efforts through Doctors Without Borders (Medecin Sans Frontieres) and we couldn't NOT pony up as well. Do what you can! For more info see this link

Papua New Guinea was not directly impacted by the above-mentioned storms and tsunami. We will have an exceptional PNG Plantation Peaberry in stock by next Wednesday to take the place of the PNG Kiam, which is now currently out of stock.

Happy to tout the cup virtues of our new Ethiopia Limu Daye Bensa, just added. There are several other exciting Ethiopas, washed and natural process, in the pipeline as well...high season for new crop arrivals of containers which have been afloat for many weeks. Patience will be rewarded!

Reinforcements on the way, if you love this coffee it'll be back in inventory at the end of next week, Tanzania Mbeya AB makes a nice substitute...