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What is Direct Trade Coffee?

Direct Trade Coffee is an exciting and important concept that describes the relationship that coffee roasters have with coffee farmers and their farms. If a coffee roaster offers Direct Trade Coffee beans it means they buy the raw beans ‘directly’ from the owners of the farm. They essentially cut out the middlemen and do not

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Step-by-Step Coffee Guide – Choosing Your Coffee Beans

A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO SELECTING COFFEE BEANS Choosing your coffee beans can be challenging with all of the options, flavors, and types of coffee out there. There is a wide variety of gourmet coffee beans on the market. Understanding the flavor guides that come with each type of roast is crucial to finding the best

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Poverty Bay – The Location, The Name, The Company

Almost every small business sets out from Poverty Bay with hopes of making it to the Bay of Abundance but sometimes where you launch is so beautiful you make it your home. Dan Olmstead, President of Poverty Bay The Location There are thousands of nooks and crannies along Puget Sound in Washington State. Its shoreline

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How to Make Cold Brew Coffee

HOW TO MAKE COLD BREW COFFEE ALL YOUR COLD BREW QUESTIONS ANSWERED! Cold Brew Coffee is extremely popular. In fact, it’s one of the longest standing trends the coffee industry has ever seen – we think it is here to stay. Our Master Roaster weighs in on how to make really strong cold brew and

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How to Brew White Coffee

Best Ways to Brew White Coffee We have done extensive testing on how to brew white coffee properly and what equipment yields the best white coffee results. Our goal with this advice is to save our customers time in experimentation and to improve the quality of our first-time purchasers’ home brewing experience. At the end

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What is White Coffee?

What is White Coffee? White Coffee is coffee roasted half of the way through and to a lower temperature. By roasting it to this much lower temperature, you get a whitish colored bean that is higher in caffeine because you roast out less caffeine. This results in a very nutty and sweet taste profile much different from traditional coffee.

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