espresso

Traditionally, companies blended coffees together to hide the poor taste of cheap, defective beans.  Because of our focus on high-quality beans and our desire to highlight the individual farms that produced them, we prefer to offer single-origins.

Espresso is our one exception.

Most coffee is brewed using gravity to pull the coffee-saturated water through a filter, which yields a thin, mild brew.  Espresso, on the other hand, uses a pump to smash hot water through a finely ground disk of coffee, which yields a thick and intense, 1-2 ounce shot of coffee.  This highly concentrated brew acts as magnifying glass, highlighting one or two flavor characteristics, which most coffees can’t handle.  Although an occasional coffee will make fantastic espresso as a single-origin, we blend to make a more nuanced, rounded espresso.  To maintain a focus on the coffees origins, we provide information on what coffees are in there, in what percentage, and how that effects the final flavor.

By the way, in case you didn’t notice, we love espresso.

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