If you have not yet seen the Kenya photo journal from my recent trip to Kenya , please visit the link, below. I spent four days touring the great Kenya coffee areas, photographing on the fly as much of what I saw as possible.  I visited Mamuto Farm, Kangocho Cooperative factory and the Kahindu Cooperative factory as well as a large coffee estate.  I tried to make the photos as informative and connected as possible.  Captions accompany each slide.  The slide show runs a little slowly, because the images are large, but they are worth the wait!

Kenya produces coffees of immense quality and distinction.  The central high plain of Kenya is compared by some of us specialty roasters to the Bordeaux of the coffee world.  Few other coffees have, in my opinion, the power and structure of the greatest Kenyas .  Your comments are appreciated!  Click here to check them out.

Jan 7- Brazil Pedra Preta - Full Flavor Roast 

Jan 14- Panama La Esmeralda - Full Flavor Roast

Jan 21- Colombia La Esperaza - Full Flavor Roast

Jan 28- El Salvador La Montaña - Full Flavor Roast

Click here to order

Wake up and smell the coffee..! We are offering $2 off each of the following three very popular and outstanding coffees to ring in the New Year. Happy New Year 2008!

Coffee Review Rates Terroir La Minita 94 Points

La Minita Estate (SHB), Tarrazu , Costa Rica

Kenneth David's Blind Assessment: “ Delicately but richly nuanced throughout the profile with cherryish fruit, flowers, honey, milk chocolate. In the cup the acidity is tart but luxuriously sweet and the mouthfeel lightly syrupy. Flavor saturated and flawless finish.“ Read the full review here.

Read more and order here: $12.95, regularly $14.95

Kangocho, Nyeri District, Kenya

What makes this lot of Kangocho so special are its sumptuous mouthfeel and its sweet blueberry notes, melding harmoniously with the classic grand Kenya riot of blackberry and black currant flavors. Kangocho is a high altitude, small farmer cooperative coffee processing center in the Nyeri district. Full Flavor Roast Spectrum

Read more and order here : $13.95 , regularly $15.95

New Ethiopian Yirgacheffe

-from Konga Cooperative has arrived. It is organic, Fair Trade and delicious. This is the first shipment from Ethiopia to ever be vacuum sealed at origin.

What a difference vacuum packaging at origin makes! Yirgacheffe fans will note the clearer sweet notes this Yirgacheffe has over our last lot, the Addis Ketema. It is as if we just had a spring cleaning. Delicate candy lemon and Darjeeling tea notes. This coffee pairs amazingly with dark chocolate, by the way! Each reinforces the other.

Price: $10.95, regularly $12.95 per 12 ounces. Full Flavor or North Italian Espresso Roast

Click here to purchase.

We now have the new Technivorm Glass Carafe brewer, called the CD Moccamaster model, as well as the tried and true KB741 Thermo Carafe model (right). 

This brewer received top honors in the current issue of  The Atlantic when compared to three other home brewers in a similar price range.  Among Corby Kummer's conclusions were that the Technivorm brewer matched the quality of commercial brewers in extraction quality, and brought out the best flavor highlights in lighter roasted coffees, especially as they cool and reveal the complexities of a lighter roast flavor profile.

We recently tested the Technivorm against several current home brewers, and plotted the actual performance results here. As you can see, the Technivorm coffee brewer reaches the proper extraction temperature fastest, and holds it there for the entire brew time, and they also finish first. Unlike other brewers, they maintain the proper extraction temperatures regardless of batch size.

We include a scoop with all models. Order yours here.

Baratza Virtuoso Coffee Grinder, for $189.95, normally $199.
A real burr grinder is the gateway to making full-flavored fresh coffee with maximum sweetness. Getting the right uniform grind is critical to producing great coffee - you want to extract all the sweetness while holding back harsher notes due to over-extracted finer particles. The Virtuoso does the best job on the market in this price class and offers a wide selection of grinds to suit your brewer's needs. It is easy to clean, has a powerful motor and uses slow spinning conical burrs to keep the coffee from heating. It is solidly built. A great gift! Click here for more information and to purchase. Time to junk the blade grinder for convenience and accuracy!

Flat Rate shipping program continued…indefinitely

Due to popular demand, and your support, we have made the Flat-Rate Shipping program permanent

$4 for shipments of 3-7 coffee items, to a commercial address;
$5 for shipments of 3-7 coffee items, to a residential address
via UPS Ground service.

For more than 7 coffee items, just add $1 per bag.

All other types of shipment are at standard rates.

Please help us continue this well received program by changing your ship-to address to a commercial address , and help to reduce green-house gases. If you would like us to modify your ship-to address to a commercial one, please e-Mail instructions to Jenny@terroircoffee.com or call us at (866) GHH-JAVA.

If you have not yet seen the Kenya photo journal from my recent trip to Kenya , please visit the link, below. I spent four days touring the great Kenya coffee areas, photographing on the fly as much of what I saw as possible.  I visited Mamuto Farm, Kangocho Cooperative factory and the Kahindu Cooperative factory as well as a large coffee estate.  I tried to make the photos as informative and connected as possible.  Captions accompany each slide.  The slide show runs a little slowly, because the images are large, but they are worth the wait!

Kenya produces coffees of immense quality and distinction.  The central high plain of Kenya is compared by some of us specialty roasters to the Bordeaux of the coffee world.  Few other coffees have, in my opinion, the power and structure of the greatest Kenyas .  Your comments are appreciated!  Click here to check them out.

Jan 7- Brazil Pedra Preta - Full Flavor Roast 

Jan 14- Panama La Esmeralda - Full Flavor Roast

Jan 21- Colombia La Esperaza - Full Flavor Roast

Jan 28- El Salvador La Montaña - Full Flavor Roast

Click here to order

Wake up and smell the coffee..! We are offering $2 off each of the following three very popular and outstanding coffees to ring in the New Year. Happy New Year 2008!

Coffee Review Rates Terroir La Minita 94 Points

La Minita Estate (SHB), Tarrazu , Costa Rica

Kenneth David's Blind Assessment: “ Delicately but richly nuanced throughout the profile with cherryish fruit, flowers, honey, milk chocolate. In the cup the acidity is tart but luxuriously sweet and the mouthfeel lightly syrupy. Flavor saturated and flawless finish.“ Read the full review here.

Read more and order here: $12.95, regularly $14.95

Kangocho, Nyeri District, Kenya

What makes this lot of Kangocho so special are its sumptuous mouthfeel and its sweet blueberry notes, melding harmoniously with the classic grand Kenya riot of blackberry and black currant flavors. Kangocho is a high altitude, small farmer cooperative coffee processing center in the Nyeri district. Full Flavor Roast Spectrum

Read more and order here : $13.95 , regularly $15.95

New Ethiopian Yirgacheffe

-from Konga Cooperative has arrived. It is organic, Fair Trade and delicious. This is the first shipment from Ethiopia to ever be vacuum sealed at origin.

What a difference vacuum packaging at origin makes! Yirgacheffe fans will note the clearer sweet notes this Yirgacheffe has over our last lot, the Addis Ketema. It is as if we just had a spring cleaning. Delicate candy lemon and Darjeeling tea notes. This coffee pairs amazingly with dark chocolate, by the way! Each reinforces the other.

Price: $10.95, regularly $12.95 per 12 ounces. Full Flavor or North Italian Espresso Roast

Click here to purchase.

We now have the new Technivorm Glass Carafe brewer, called the CD Moccamaster model, as well as the tried and true KB741 Thermo Carafe model (right). 

This brewer received top honors in the current issue of  The Atlantic when compared to three other home brewers in a similar price range.  Among Corby Kummer's conclusions were that the Technivorm brewer matched the quality of commercial brewers in extraction quality, and brought out the best flavor highlights in lighter roasted coffees, especially as they cool and reveal the complexities of a lighter roast flavor profile.

We recently tested the Technivorm against several current home brewers, and plotted the actual performance results here. As you can see, the Technivorm coffee brewer reaches the proper extraction temperature fastest, and holds it there for the entire brew time, and they also finish first. Unlike other brewers, they maintain the proper extraction temperatures regardless of batch size.

We include a scoop with all models. Order yours here.

Baratza Virtuoso Coffee Grinder, for $189.95, normally $199.
A real burr grinder is the gateway to making full-flavored fresh coffee with maximum sweetness. Getting the right uniform grind is critical to producing great coffee - you want to extract all the sweetness while holding back harsher notes due to over-extracted finer particles. The Virtuoso does the best job on the market in this price class and offers a wide selection of grinds to suit your brewer's needs. It is easy to clean, has a powerful motor and uses slow spinning conical burrs to keep the coffee from heating. It is solidly built. A great gift! Click here for more information and to purchase. Time to junk the blade grinder for convenience and accuracy!

Flat Rate shipping program continued…indefinitely

Due to popular demand, and your support, we have made the Flat-Rate Shipping program permanent

$4 for shipments of 3-7 coffee items, to a commercial address;
$5 for shipments of 3-7 coffee items, to a residential address
via UPS Ground service.

For more than 7 coffee items, just add $1 per bag.

All other types of shipment are at standard rates.

Please help us continue this well received program by changing your ship-to address to a commercial address , and help to reduce green-house gases. If you would like us to modify your ship-to address to a commercial one, please e-Mail instructions to Jenny@terroircoffee.com or call us at (866) GHH-JAVA.