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coffee supply

so a lot of interesting things are happening in the coffee market. robusta coffee is about to have four straight years of shortages due to random droughts and floods in...

New Tshirts

Our latest t-shirts are a preshrunk blend of really soft polyester and cotton and they look really fun and really good on everyone whom I've seen wearing them. It's the...

microlots

i was thinking today about how i used tobrag that we can offer microlot coffees thatthe big companies can't bother with because they are too big and we are small....

May Day

And just like that, winter had ended and the sun felt amazing hitting your skin. Costa Rica La Minita had arrived and May Day was here. May 1st has become...

SCA

The specialty coffee expo was in Chicago this year instead of Portland/Seattle or NYC/Boston. It had never been in the midwest before. EVERYONE came. They were expecting 12,000 people and...

Local Pickups

We've always let local customers get 10% off their order by using coupon code pickup10 and it's because it saves us the labor of packaging it into boxes, the cost...

Coffee Subscriptions

We have a coffee subscription called Roasters Choice A and Roasters Choice B where we send you our very favorite coffees that week with a card telling the story of...

Red Sea Conflict

Almost all of our Indonesian and African coffee gets here on a container ship going through the Red Sea and through the Suez Canal. The Houthi Rebels based out of...

Burlap Coffee Bags

jute is a type of plant used to make burlap fabric. it is one of the cheapest fabrics on earth. coffee travels thousands of miles around the world held in...

Suez Canal

you wouldn't think we'd be talking about pirates in 2024 but pirates in the red sea are why we dont have your favorite teas in stock and why fresh harvest...

groundhog day

we start driving at 11pm.stop for coffee at a gas station, 2 am. a copgetting coffee sees us and says are you onyour way to punxatawney? you know we are.go...

how we found mister mug

back in 2010, my cousin sent me a letter on behalf of mister mug who was looking for a job with aspirations of becoming a model. it ended up being...