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.