Nicaragua’s Selva Negra / La Hammonia Estate:Where old world tradition meets new world experimentation in a holistic community of sustainability. One of Nicaragua’s first coffee estates has maintained its village-like atmosphere and traditional German animal husbandry while updating its operations with the latest advances in boutique coffee processing and a wide range of innovative and […]
Matcha is used in numerous special drinks and baked goods – really you can add it to just about anything! If matcha is new to you, and whether you use Chinese Organic Matcha or Japanese Kansai Matcha powder, this simple yummy recipe is a great place to start. Matcha Latte Serves: 1 Ingredients: 1/4 Cup […]
Coffees vary so dramatically that it is sometimes hard to know how to choose – but you can be confident that you are pointing yourself in the premium direction with knowledge of common Strains or “Cultivars.” Check out 2 more primers in this set: basic knowledge about coffee-growing Coffee Regions and why producers choose different […]
SEE OUR FULL TEA LIST HERE! Tasty and healthful drinks may be created from a wide variety of leaves and flowers other than those of the tea plant Camellia sinensis, and we are pleased to share a great collection of yummy herbal infusions. From ginger and mint to chamomile and lavender, from lemongrass and ginseng […]
SEE OUR FULL TEA LIST HERE! Begin with the perfect pot of water. In the ideal cup of tea, the water is almost as important as the leaves. If possible, use water which is clean, fresh, well-aerated, and with a good balance of minerals. Unfortunately, bottled water is generally mineral-free and not well-aerated, leaving it […]
Try this delicious recipe for an extra-special rooibos-based winter warm-up: ROOIBOS-CIDER HOT TODDY Serves: 1 Ingredients: ½ Cup prepared rooibos infusion (will require approx 1 tsp rooibos leaves, or more to taste) ½ Cup natural apple cider (any apple juice will do, preferably sugar-free) ½ inch piece of ginger, or more to taste ½ inch […]
Rooibos, or “red bush,” is native to the western coast of South Africa, and it has been harvested from the wild for millennia. Only recently has it been cultivated, but with a high reputation as a cheap and delicious caffeine-free tea alternative, in less than 100 years its popularity has spread to every continent. Rooibos […]
SEE OUR FULL TEA LIST HERE! Almost all white teas come from famous Fujian province, which claims to be the first producer of white, black, and oolong teas. Like green teas, receiving heat treatment to stop the oxidation process, white teas capture the delicate aromas of spring and dance many subtle flavors across the palate. […]
SEE OUR FULL TEA LIST HERE! All of us at Burman Coffee Traders are flavor adventurers – always searching for the freshest and most interesting coffees and teas, always excited to discover unique beverages from unusual regions. If you have seen our coffee list, you already know that we are dedicated to sourcing the highest […]
Been a long time since we offered a Yemen coffee – we love them incredibly but with the political battles and atrocities taking place we avoided them. Recently we have gotten into some good discussions with coffee folks and the recent thinking is, good to support these Yemen farmers regardless of what is politically happening […]
A very tasty aggregate production (co-op called CBS) coffee coming from the Letefoho sub-district of the Ermera municipality in Timor. Similar to much of Indonesian, Timor has its own strain of coffee that naturally crossed an Arabica strain with a Robusta strain creating a wonderful hybrid that has now been used around the world. Although […]
Before we found some personal friends in Papua New Guinea, this is the coffee we used to rely on. Awesome folks even though at the time we had never met them. One of the few Estate produced coffees (a bit smaller than Carpenter) and located just a couple miles down the road. A couple years […]
This is a top cupping lot from the Gatomboya coffee factory in Nyeri. Very tasty with some exotic acidic fruit notes upfront (grape/lemon/orange) and a strong classic and super clean chocolate spice undertone. This cup is sourced from family-owned farms organized around the Gatomboya Factory (wet mill) in Nyeri County, Kenya. The Barichu Farmers Co-operative Society […]
Usually Kenyan coffee lose some of their track-ability through the mill aggregation model. This cup is cool for its an estate produced offering, where is came from and the folks behind it are well known. Kiriga was established in 1954 and currently has 130 acres of land in use for coffee cultivation, which stretches along […]
This cup is sourced from family owned farms organized around the UtamaGro cooperative, located in the Takengon highlands of the Aceh province on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. UtamaGro cooperative currently has 1174 members. On average, producers cultivate coffee on 2.5 acres of land using their own micro-mills to depulp and dry coffee. The cooperative […]
These beans are sourced from small scale producers associated with the Sara Ate Cooperative which was founded in 2011. Members of Sara Ate cooperative come from villages near Takengon, a well-known coffee town in the province of Aceh located at the northern end of Sumatra. The cooperative currently has approximately 517 small coffee producing members. […]
The Peaberry is the rarity out of the three Toarco offerings, Indo plants just don’t throw off the amount of PB’s that many other countries have. Larger beaned and dense, awesome screen, this is a tasty offering, a little hard to justify the price over the AA but is a bit bolder in its tones. […]
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AA is there nicest bean screen, a bit smoother than the A screen with an accentuated soft fruit tone. Just about as unique as you can get for a Sulawesi. Thick and creamy but the flavor profile is very far from your average semi-washed Indonesian cup. For years, this coffee was only available in Japan, […]
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DESCRIPTION Just about as unique as you can get for a Sulawesi. Thick and creamy but the flavor profile is very far from your average semi-washed Indonesian cup. For years, this coffee was only available in Japan, as the estate is owned by the Japanese roaster Key Coffee. In recent years they have made it […]
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This coffee is sourced from family owned farms located on the slopes of the Inerie volcano in the Ngada regency of Flores, one of the big islands in the Lesser Sunda archipelago of Indonesia. Over the last decade, a growing number of farmer groups have pooled resources to improve upon processing coffee using wet-hulling techniques […]
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