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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...

dr. coffee

for a few months we had a physician's assistant helping us out and she roasted coffee like a natural. when a new coffee came in, we'd run it through the...

holiday coffees

we always hold back really special coffees for december and we have some wowzers. a set of four different bourbon varietal colombian coffees. each recognizable as colombian but also recognizable...

400,000 orders

just a moment of wonderment,when order 400,000 printed outwe stared for a minute and then were like,"well he's going to need a pen and some stickers."it's more than 400,000. thefirst...

Winter on Lake Erie

We are forecasted to get 20 inches of snow overnight. There are 15 of us at Happy Mug these days. 8 are scheduled to come in tomorrow morning. 3 of...

Co-Fermentation

We've been hearing stories of farmers throwing alien objects in with the coffee while it is fermenting. Pineapples. Lemons. Peaches. Chili Peppers. It's an intriguing idea. Do you hate the...

speculation

Coffee is traded on the futures market. When we started Happy Mug in 2010, the coffee market was reasonable, we built out a business plan, the numbers made sense, i...

Expansion

We officially signed a lease on a new manufacturing and warehouse space today, and now we will begin moving. The website will have to come down on Sunday afternoon and...

pink bourbon coffee

pink bourbon could be a whiskey endorsed by machine gun kelly, but it's actually a varietal of coffee shrubs, a hybrid of red bourbon and yellow bourbon. (not pronounced burr-bun...

Takeaways from the Specialty Coffee Association...

The annual SCA convention was in Portland Oregon this year. Roughly 500 booths are set up, and tens of thousands of coffee professionals converge for the three day event. My...