We have been roasting our own coffee for the past six years and have greatly enjoyed the improved quality of our products. Roasting is an exacting process and requires careful attention to many details beginning with sourcing out the best tasting, sustainably grown and processed green coffee beans. We’ve learned a lot since we started and are proud of the coffees we source and roast. It’s our pleasure to offer them to our customers at the peak of freshness and flavor. We make it a point to roast each batch of beans to highlight and enhance its natural flavor profile.
The turmoil both political and social in many of the coffee producing countries of the world today is a factor that impacts our products. Coffee bean prices have been climbing steadily for the past year driven by unrest in coffee growing regions, changing weather patterns, and not least of all, commodities trading, coffee beans being the second most traded commodity on the market. (Crude oil is first.) Prices have almost tripled since we began roasting. There is also, currently, political manipulation of the chocolate market stemming from the Ivory Coast in Africa where 40% of the world’s cocoa originates. All of these factors play into challenges in availability and pricing on our end of the market.
Working with our long time suppliers, we continue to source the best coffees available to us at the most reasonable prices and work hard to bring you a consistent and high quality product while keeping our prices as low as we can. Fluctuations in costs may drive our prices up at times, but our aim is to keep our products delicious and reasonably priced, and to serve you with care and attention. We hope we make your day a little bit better, as you do ours.
Thanks for your business,
Cindy Arsaga
