30
Jun
2010
July’s Coffee of the Month – Guatemala Medium Roast
It’s back! Our acclaimed Guatemala Medium Roast is featured this month for all to enjoy! We do, of course, carry it year-round but many wait to enjoy it for those special months that we offer it as our Coffee of the Month!
Sweet and tangy citrus accents set this Guatemala coffee bean apart from the others. With distinct and distinguished flavor and aroma, this medium roast pleases the coffee lover with its complexity and colorful aromatic qualities.
Of course, most of our customers already know there is much more to our Guatemala than the great flavor. Our Guatemala Medium Roast is a wonderful Agros coffee. It’s my personal favorite, actually. From the village of Trapichitos in Guatemala, comes this wonderfully rich, full flavored, original Guatemala coffee bean.
Agros’ website gives us a little more insight:
Trapichitos
“Place of the Sugar Mills”
Nebaj, Quiché, Guatemala
Size: 635 acres
Population: 61 families
Founded: 2000
Also known as La Trinidad (the Trinity), Trapichitos is an Ixil community that has persevered through great challenges. Squeezed together for many years on just 25 acres of land, the original 85 families organized themselves to purchase land 25 minutes from their homes. After five frustrating years and many fruitless attempts to acquire land, the community approached Agros for assistance in April 2000. Agros had never worked with previously organized groups in the Ixil, thereby, presenting a new opportunity. With Agros’ support, local leaders finally had the financial backing to approach the landowner. The 635-acre tract of Trapichitos was purchased in November 2000
Read More: http://www.agros.org/ag/our-villages/guatemala/trapichitos/
I hope you enjoy what is my personal favorite of our coffee beans!
Dan Ericson
“Coffee Guru”
CICR
16
Apr
2010
Trapichitos Land Title Ceremony
I recently received an email from David Carlson with Agros. I picked a few quotes from that message to share with you. The Land Title Ceremony is the culmination of what these villagers work so hard for!
“…truly it was remarkable and we talked about you in all three villages of Batzchocolá, Trapichitos & Xeucalvitz, passing around an aromatic opened bag of Camano Island Coffee in each as we talked about the demand for their coffee…”
“Diego Bernal (who translated for me into Ixil – when we came to that point) would embellish it, using the moment to reinforce how vital their continued commitment to high quality is to their equation. Thank you for all you’ve done and are doing to support these villagers!”
“Jeff, we have many many photos, (tho’ I don’t have them all collected yet) with the Camano Island coffee bag making the rounds! So we’ll get some choice ones to you!”
Congratulations Trapichitos – the next wonderful addition to Agros’ success stories!
Jeff Ericson
President
CICR
31
Mar
2010
April’s Coffee of the Month – Guatemala Medium Roast and Ethiopia Reserve
Last month we brought back a yearly favorite and also introduced you to the name “PapuaMatra”, that we use to reference that awesome coffee at CICR. For April, we’re bringing you another coffee blend that received quite a warm welcome last year.
We also have a fun roasting name for it, although it’s a bit more awkward to say – “Guatetopia”. Our Guatetopian coffee is a fun melding of a Central American favorite with one of our African reserves.
Our Ethiopian brings a distinct blueberry-like fruitiness to the combo while the Guatemalan rounds the flavor with a steady base and a slight citrus tone. It’s an amazing, “odd couple” combination that leaves us all wishing it were around all throughout the year.
Our wonderful Trapichitos Guatemalan bean has more than a great flavor to it. It’s the first coffee CICR has carried that has a direct connection to our relationship with Agros. Check out this link to read about Agros’ work in Trapichitos. The country of Guatemala is bordered by Mexico to the north, Belize to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast. It is known for having some of the most desirable coffees in the Americas with its high elevation coffees being among the hardest beans available (dense coffee is GOOD coffee).
For more about our Guatemalan coffee’s taste profile, check our our coffee description on our blog at this link: http://cicrblog.com/coffee/coffee/guatemala/.
Our Ethiopian coffee is one of our two current reserve coffees. The reserves are harder coffees for us to come by for one reason or another. We offer them because they add a flavor nuance to our coffee offering list that our other coffees miss. The Ethiopian is among my favorite coffee choices as it has an extremely distinct blueberry tone that really gives this coffee a uniqueness all to itself. As I type this description from home, I’m sipping a french pressed cup of Ethiopian and I have to add… it’s hard to concentrate on what I’m typing!
For more info on our Ethiopian coffee, check out our description on our website: http://www.camanoislandcoffee.com/buy-coffee-online/ethiopian-coffee-roasters.html
This is perhaps my personal favorite combo as it has both of my favorite French Press beans and I’m a big French Presser! It makes awesome drip as well so I’m pretty much covered whether I’m at the roaster or at home. This coffee is a deal at the standard price too! If you like it, make sure you get your fill of it this month and enjoy the deal because next month, the mix is only available if you buy both the Guatemala Medium Roast and also purchase the Ethiopia Reserve coffee at its full reserve price!
Enjoy!
Dan Ericson
“Coffee Guru”
CICR
2
Jan
2010
January’s Coffee of the Month – Medium Roast Guatemala and Light Roast
The Holiday Blend coffees are gone until November 2010….
Are you upset you won’t be able to get them? Don’t worry about it! This month is the chance for something different, yet unique and delicious. We’re bringing you a very special blend of Guatemala coffee for January that is sure to keep you wanting more.
Our “Coffee of the Month” is a wonderful Agros coffee. It’s my personal favorite actually. From the village of Trapichitos in Guatemala, comes this wonderfully rich, full flavored, original Guatemala coffee bean. We carry Guatemala all year but for the Month of January, we’re blending the light and medium roasts of this exquisite bean. The result is a mellow, yet medium/full bodied coffee with a slight citrus highlight.
Agros’ website gives us a little more insight:
Trapichitos
“Place of the Sugar Mills”
Nebaj, Quiché, Guatemala
Size: 635 acres
Population: 61 families
Founded: 2000Also known as La Trinidad (the Trinity), Trapichitos is an Ixil community that has persevered through great challenges. Squeezed together for many years on just 25 acres of land, the original 85 families organized themselves to purchase land 25 minutes from their homes. After five frustrating years and many fruitless attempts to acquire land, the community approached Agros for assistance in April 2000. Agros had never worked with previously organized groups in the Ixil, thereby, presenting a new opportunity. With Agros’ support, local leaders finally had the financial backing to approach the landowner. The 635-acre tract of Trapichitos was purchased in November 2000
Read More: http://www.agros.org/ag/our-villages/guatemala/trapichitos/
I hope you enjoy what is my personal favorite of our coffee beans!
Dan – CICR
