Hello Kuma Coffee Fan Club,
I have just a few quick announcements.
Announcement #1: Starting today our coffee can be purchased at the Magnolia Thriftway.
Announcement #2: I have secured a limited amount of Brazil Organic Jacaranda for those single origin espresso lovers out there. It is chocolaty, floral, big body, and glorious fruit. I will have some available at the Queen Anne farmers market this week.
Announcement #3: One of the brazils in the 35th Ave Espresso Blend has been changed to give a bigger, sweeter more chocolaty body. And it's delicious!
Announcement #4: If you missed the Ethiopia Sidamo Koratie - Dry Processed coffee....we ran out last week. The good news is that I ordered in a very limited amount that I will be running as a special at the Queen Anne Farmers market starting August 28th. I had to go through a reseller to get my hands on more of this amazing coffee, so the price on my supply is going to be a little bit higher. Cupping notes on the coffee: peaches and cream, blueberries, mango, sweet aromatic cup. This makes excellent french presses and great single origin espresso.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Rollin'
I have been very bad at keeping my blog up to date. I have given myself 30 lashes and promise it won't happen again. (fingers crossed). With that out of the way, let's talk about the direction that Kuma Coffee has taken.
Since we opened around a month and a half ago we have gone up to about 32lbs a week of production. We are negotiating a contract with Thriftway that should add another 20-25lbs a week of production. That will be 50+ lbs of production per week within the first 2 months! Look for Kuma Coffee in the Magnolia Thriftway by the end of August, maybe sooner.
The Queen Anne Farmers market has been treating us well. We have a core group of eclectic coffee connoisseurs that frequent the market and understand the kind of devotion and attention we put into sourcing and roasting our coffee. We hope that the clientele that supports us within the market will begin to realize that they can get their coffee roasted fresh every week at the market instead of making it an impulse buy at the grocery store.
Kuma Coffee has been Fair Trade certified for a few months, but has finally got some fair trade coffee for roasting. Our first two Fair Trade coffees hopefully amongst many more to come are our Sumatra Gayo Highlands FTO and our "El Dozo" Decaf Blend FTO (which makes a mean decaf espresso and works great as drip).
Our 35th Ave Espresso blend has been really popular among the underground coffee crowd. The blend consists of two brazil varieties, el salvador, ethiopian, sumatran and colombian coffee and has a great chocolate covered cherry flavor with caramel undertones wrapped up in a sweet, thick, syrupy body.
Since we opened around a month and a half ago we have gone up to about 32lbs a week of production. We are negotiating a contract with Thriftway that should add another 20-25lbs a week of production. That will be 50+ lbs of production per week within the first 2 months! Look for Kuma Coffee in the Magnolia Thriftway by the end of August, maybe sooner.
The Queen Anne Farmers market has been treating us well. We have a core group of eclectic coffee connoisseurs that frequent the market and understand the kind of devotion and attention we put into sourcing and roasting our coffee. We hope that the clientele that supports us within the market will begin to realize that they can get their coffee roasted fresh every week at the market instead of making it an impulse buy at the grocery store.
Kuma Coffee has been Fair Trade certified for a few months, but has finally got some fair trade coffee for roasting. Our first two Fair Trade coffees hopefully amongst many more to come are our Sumatra Gayo Highlands FTO and our "El Dozo" Decaf Blend FTO (which makes a mean decaf espresso and works great as drip).
Our 35th Ave Espresso blend has been really popular among the underground coffee crowd. The blend consists of two brazil varieties, el salvador, ethiopian, sumatran and colombian coffee and has a great chocolate covered cherry flavor with caramel undertones wrapped up in a sweet, thick, syrupy body.
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