Last Saturday, Leon had the great pleasure of hiking Finca Las Marias with Jose Giraldo of Café 1959 just east of Pijao, Qunidio, Colombia. Jose has visited our roastery a couple of times in the past few years and presented at our Roaster's Village booth at SCA Expo in Boston a couple of years back, serving his Mesa Alta that we roasted to our guests. It was a great pleasure to get to visit with Jose, Jimena, and their baby at their home, farm, and lab. Here's Leon's Field Report: It's about 9am at Finca Las Marias. The air is warm and cold, two temperatures back and forth moment to moment, warm air from the direct sun with pockets of cool...
SELECT SPRING & SUMMER SEASONAL LITTLE WAVES COFFEE FEATURES We will soon be receiving three beautiful coffees that we are very excited about. They are: Ikizere Fugi - Rwanda: A washed coffee produced by 9 women around the Fugi Washing Station in the Ngoma Sector, Nyaruguru District, Southern Province. This coffee produces a savory cup with notes of chocolate, golden raisins, and clover honey, and it makes a delicious iced pour over. Bavyeyi Natural - Burundi : We love partnering with Jeanine, a native of Burundi, to bring in these beautiful community natural lots. This year’s crop is incredibly sweet, tropical, clean and juicy! Passion Fruit Processing - Colombia: This lot not only wowed us, it kept us going back...
On January 19, 2013, we opened our first retail Cocoa Cinnamon location to Kickstarter backers and supporters. Over 1000 people contributed to help us go from a sleepless night on December 14th, 2010 in Areli's mom's kitchen in the NC Mountains to bikeCOFFEE on the streets of Durham in 2011 & 12 to Cocoa Cinnamon at 420 W Geer Street in 2013. On January 21, 2013, we opened 420 W Geer Street to the public for the first time. We're just starting to process that it will soon be 10 years! Composite by David Solow with a photo of Neowise by Kristy Maney Herron Cover image by Savannah Wrenn, CC OND Cafe Leader Savannah was instrumental in putting together what...
For the past two and half years we have used our wonder menu to lean into connection and comfort. This round, considering the importance of the upcoming election and the state of our nation, we are deliberately shifting towards a theme that is more challenging and hopefully just as rewarding. We are exploring considerations and commitments to democratic foundations, pluralism, thinking, the opposite of one-dimensionalism, forced conformity, absolutism, bubblism, and such things that are putting our flawed but important foundations at threat. Robben Island facing Cape Town, South Africa - Image by Andrea Willmore Like in a great musical or country song, we want you to be able to “sing along” and enjoy the warmth of a drink while something...
It's been a little bit over a month since we returned from EXPO and we are still processing and feeling the vibrations from it. From April 6-10th, a small team from Little Waves Coffee Roasters traveled to Boston to represent our business at the Specialty Coffee Expo. "EXPO," as it's often called, is a global gathering where folks from all parts of the value chain come together to showcase their coffees, to network, to make business deals, and to compete in their respective fields in the U.S. Coffee Competitions. Competition categories include barista, brewing, latte art, roasting, cupping, and coffee cocktails. I have been attending EXPO since 2013. I remember my first year attending as a coffee shop owner -- I was...
