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Aida's Grand Reserve - 8 Oz Bag/Box

37.50

Each year, legendary coffee producer aida battle – like a vintner – tastes & crafts an incredibly special coffee composed of peaberries from her three original farms. This once-a-year, limited-edition grand reserve from aida shouldn't be missed. This year’s blend includes a half-dozen specially processed coffees that, when put together, represent a level of complexity that cannot be matched. This year's grand reserve represents the most refined year yet, w/ delicate flavors of pear, tropical fruit, & sugar cane

Justina Ramos 12 Oz Bag

17.75

Single-farmer lot after tasting more than 80 single-farmer lots from our project w/ nueva llusta, we selected our favorites to sell separately as special offerings. Out of all the samples we tasted, justina remarkably had two lots selected, & this is her first lot from the earlier part of the harvest. Look for sweet notes of clementine, tamarind, & nougat

St. Jude Project - 12 Oz Bag

16.00

St. jude founder danny thomas believed that "no child should die in the dawn of life. " In support of this sentiment, from december 13, 2013, through february 28, 2014, ten dollars of the purchase price of each bag of st. jude project coffee sold will be donated to st. jude children's research hospital. This project is in collaboration w/ the avett brothers, avid supporters of st. jude, & whom have experienced firsthand the incredible support & treatment offered by st. jude. Warming & comforting, this coffee offers notes of sweet chocolate emphasized by a smooth body

Mpemba - 12 Oz Bag

15.50

This cooperative's coffee is simply impressive. From the inception of the co-op last year to this year being recognized in the top 5 coffees in all of burundi in a national tasting competition, it is probably best to let the coffee speak for itself. Notes of citrus & dried fruit w/ balance & impeccable sweetness

Kalungu - 12 Oz Bag

17.25

Single-community lot‏ in the mountains bordering lake kivu, the kalungu community is one highest-elevation coffee-growing areas around the tsheya washing station. When we worked w/ the sopacdi cooperative this year to select lots from individual communities, coffee from kalungu stood out above all the others, & we knew had to offer the coffee as a single-community lot. Notes of citrus, dark fruit, & hibiscus

Baroida - 12 Oz Bag

15.50

Early harvest – day lots when many people first think of papua new guinea, they think of a remote, diverse, beautiful, yet strange place, and, we admit, papua new guinea is all those things. In this complex place, the colbran family continues – each year – to redefine the coffee of the eastern highlands. This year, we focused even more on small, meticulously sorted lots of coffee from different times of the harvest, & it won't disappoint. Baroida brings a blend of sweet & savory notes, coupled w/ stone fruit & molasses

Biloya Natural Sundried - 12 Oz Bag

16.50

In 2007, a single natural processed coffee took the industry by storm, and, for 3 years, it seemed like coffee from the village of biloya was the only natural ethiopian coffee people talked about. While this coffee comes from a different source within the village, the hallmark flavors that built the namesake & reputation have come through again: big jammy notes of blackberry, peach syrup, & cocoa

Farmhouse - 12 Oz Bag

13.75

Farmhouse is based on the idea that coffee, like all food, is best enjoyed when it is at its freshest & in season. Throughout the year, as coffees come & go according to the seasons, we roast them to underscore their intrinsic deliciousness. And, then we sell the result. Simple as that

La Golondrina - 12 Oz Bag

16.00

Sourced directly from cauca, colombia's most skilled & quality-focused organic farmers, la golondrina represents the very best of colombian coffee w/ layered flavors of caramel, chocolate, cherry, & mild citrus

Number 46 - 12 Oz Bag

13.75

In the‏ earliest days of counter culture's history, co-founder fred houk created what he felt was a delicious european-style coffee blend. Filed away in our recipe book as "no. 46," more than 15 years later this coffee remains one of our best-selling & most celebrated blends. We still simply call it number 46

Tairora Project - 12 Oz Bag

15.50

Early harvest – day lots our coffees from the tairora project are small lots that are meticulously separated & selected for quality from a few villages & producers in the eastern highlands of papua new guinea. This system was developed by third-generation coffee grower chris colbran to improve the quality, transparency, & sustainability within the local coffee trade around the baroida estate. Look for savory-sweet notes of stone fruit & ginger snap

Tsheya - 12 Oz Bag

15.75

Community lots amid the tension & instability that plague the kivu communities in eastern part of the democratic republic of congo is a group of small-scale coffee farmers coming together to really make a name for themselves. The last few years, we have seen the development of high quality coffees there, & this year we took it even further to select out small lots from a few unique communities. Each community lot processed at the tsheya washing station is nuanced, but all the lots are tied together by a bright citrus, stone fruit, & lightly savory notes

Buziraguhindwa Natural Sundried - 12 Oz Bag

17.00

With big risks, come big rewards. After two previous years of perfecting a natural coffee w/ the buziraguhindwa washing station, we decided to take the plunge & make a larger batch this year to be able to offer. Not only is this a first of its kind in burundi, it is hands down the best processed natural we have ever seen. Look for big strong aromatics & flavors of strawberry cream, dates, & spice.

Nueva Llusta - 12 Oz Bag

16.00

Early harvest nueva llusta is a collection of small, single-farmer lots that are the culmination of multiple years of hard work between the cooperative & counter culture. This year, we were able to select out four special lots, two from the early part of the harvest & two from the later half that are the pinnacle of transparency & quality. All four lots selected have remarkable notes of chocolate, vanilla, & black cherry.

Remera - 12 Oz Bag

15.75

The country of rwanda is perfectly suited for amazing coffee – it has good coffee varieties w/ an ideal climate – & it seems that w/ each year rwandan coffees are getting more & more of the credit they deserve. The remera washing station in the south of rwanda is one one of the most impressive in the country. Remera’s coffee is exactly what we look for in rwandan coffee: bright, crisp citrus, coupled w/ fruit notes of cranberry, crisp apple, & stone fruit that go perfectly w/ the juicy body & clean, sweet aftertaste

Buziraguhindwa - 12 Oz Bag

14.75

Single-community lot‏ the tiny village of buziraguhindwa has built quite a reputation for quality, considering the washing station is only a few years old, & burundi itself isn’t exactly the most famous coffee-growing origin. Ramadhan salum, one of the owners, separated coffee from the growers around the washing station & one other community exclusively for counter culture. These lots tend to be our favorites – w/ refined & complex flavors of nectarine, date, & citrus.

Decaf Finca Nueva Armenia - 12 Oz Bag

17.50

A mainstay of our lineup for over a decade now, this year, finca nueva armenia makes its debut in decaf! We believe in offering the best possible experience to drinkers of decaffeinated coffees: coffees that taste great from farms we’re excited about & relationships in which we take great pride. We send small batches of coffee to the swiss water decaffeination plant in vancouver, canada, frequently, which allows us to keep our decafs tasting fresh & to offer a larger variety of our best single-origin coffees than if we stuck w/ traditional, larger-batch decaffeination. Chocolate, sweet, & nutty

Valle Del Santuario - 12 Oz Bag

16.00

Valle del santuario comes from five small communities that are a part of an exclusive counter culture project in northern peru. This year, the project selected 13 producers w/ the best coffees from those communities to receive higher premiums for their coffee. The work that went into this years lot was not lost, & this is the best this coffee has tasted in the last 7 years, w/ notes of chocolate, plum, spice, & vanilla w/ a smooth, round body

Decaf Farmhouse - 12 Oz Bag

14.25

Decaf farmhouse is based on two simple ideas: that coffees are best at the peak of their season & that decaffeinated coffees can be exceptional. Like all produce, coffee changes over the course of the year: farmhouse is our home for the standout coffees that emerge as seasons change. All this attention to freshness results in decaf that is spectacularly sweet, complex & satisfying, & is fully the equal of any caffeinated coffee

Haru - 12 Oz Bag

17.00

This year, we worked w/ haru & the yirgacheffe farmers cooperative union to recreate the immaculate coffee we bought last year. Better cherry selection & better processing resulted in another lot exclusively for counter culture that hits the hallmarks of a great yirgacheffe coffee. Bright, crisp flavors of lime, jasmine, & sweet honey.

Apollo - 12 Oz Bag

14.75

Seasonal espresso certified organic 100% haru from yirgacheffe, ethiopia

Rustico - 12 Oz Bag

13.75

The miracle of coffee is that it is capable of a range of delicious flavors: brown sugar, toasted nuts, chocolate, stone fruit, even flowers. Often, blends focus on only one or two of these characteristics, opting for simplicity. Rustico embraces the full spectrum of coffee flavor, & is almost kaleidoscopic in its flavor intensity. To create rustico, we layer intensely delicious organic coffees artfully to create a complex, fully satisfying coffee experience, which expresses itself beautifully in an espresso machine, drip filter, or french press

Toscano - 12 Oz Bag

13.75

Roasted & blended in the caffe dolce or "sweet coffee" tradition of central italian espresso, toscano finds a home in other brewers, as well, for a slightly darker-profile cup. Sweet & mild, w/ notes of caramel, hazelnut, & dark chocolate, toscano has built quite a following of professional baristas & home coffee enthusiasts

Variety: Bourbon - 12 Oz Bag

15.00

A first of its kind – a single-variety coffee, dedicated to bourbon, the king of the heirloom coffee varieties. Connoisseurs treasure the bourbon variety for its deep, buttery chocolate & coffee flavor, its unique sweetness, & its gentle fruit overtones

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