Specialty Coffee is a Journey. A long, arduous journey of seeming contradictions, nonsensical actions and a keen focus on the triple bottom line. This is not a Specialty Coffee only value by any stretch, but it is intrinsically interwoven into the very fabric of what Specialty Coffee means. When we are asked to define Specialty…… Continue reading Is Craft Coffee a Bloody Triangle or a Balanced Square?
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12 Tiny Steps To Make Your Daily Coffee a More Eco-Friendly Experience
Coffee is a crazy thing. It travels from the other side of the world through dozens and dozens of caring hands before landing in your yours. It is also a potentially environment crushing behemoth if you don’t think through your actions when you finally get to brew the nectar of life. I found this pretty…… Continue reading 12 Tiny Steps To Make Your Daily Coffee a More Eco-Friendly Experience
Misfits, Punks, Dreamers and Diamonds – 11 years of Passion Poured By People
On today’s date 11 years ago in 2003 Nanelle and I gave birth to Barefoot Coffee Roasters. We had no business plan, no money, no idea what we were doing, and no experience. What we did have was absolutely insane passion, a mission to make great coffee and thick, thick skin and big hearts. We…… Continue reading Misfits, Punks, Dreamers and Diamonds – 11 years of Passion Poured By People
Every Coffee Has A Home. Yet Not Every Home Has Coffee.
The sun was rising with equatorial brilliance from the valley floor, casting it’s tingling rays upon my face. The cool, moist tropical breeze tickled my face with fern frond delicacy soothed away the lie of “roosters rise at dawn” still fresh in my mind after the damn rooster who stood righteously outside my little cabin…… Continue reading Every Coffee Has A Home. Yet Not Every Home Has Coffee.