Roast Magazine’s 2013 Macro Roaster of the Year Gimme! Coffee announced the debut of a new blend of coffee composed of Organic South American coffees “with rich cocoa tones” – and $2 of each purchase supports the anti-fracking movement in New York State. Just in time for the holidays!

New York State anti-fracking movement. (TreeHugger)

More from Gimme!:

Did you know that every cup of brewed coffee is 98% water? Hydraulic fracturing (also known as “fracking”) is a controversial drilling method that poses a threat to water supply right in our backyard. During fracking, natural gas companies inject a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals under high pressure into dense rock formations, shale, tight sandstone, or coal beds; to crack the rock and release natural gas. According to Food & Water Watch, “The rapid expansion of this new form of fracking has brought rampant environmental and economic problems to rural communities. Accidents and leaks have polluted rivers, streams, and drinking supplies.” We need clean water to have great coffee, thriving farms, and healthy people.

The coffee is available to purchase online here – $14/12oz.

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The bright minds at Gimme! Coffee in New York got together and found perfect pairings for their coffees and different varieties of Indian Creek Farm apples. From the Gimme! Blog, coffee trainer and barista competitor Liz Clark writes, “Both coffees and apples are simple and complex, we looked at acidity, taste, sweetness and physical sensations, such as a juicy apple made you thirsty for a juicier drink, to mix and match them.”

What’s a Margil?

According to Vintage Virginia Apples, the Margil apple “is also called Fail-Me-Never, Neverfail, Small Ribston, and Reinette Musquee. In appearance, it is like a small Ribston Pippin. It was cultivated as early as 1750, and is possibly of French origin. This small, highly-flavored apple is still regarded by connoisseurs as among the best of all dessert apples.” Gimme! paired this apple with their Guatemala Chajulense brewed through a Clever Dripper. How did the pairing fair?

As we were tasting the Margil a very specific flavor description came up, that had also been brought up a couple days before in a lab, fresh pumpkin guts. The timing with Halloween may have swayed us toward this description but once we tasted fresh cut pumpkin in the Margil we had to check our cupping notes to see which coffee summoned the same response. The pumpkin-pear, caramel and popcorn (seriously) finish in the Margil made us want a coffee you would hold in a mug to warm up your hands and the tip of your nose while taking comforting sips with the changing leaves.

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“Seedy friends” (Gimme!)

During the exercise the Gimme! crew paired five other apples with coffees – what apple variety did they pair with their Leftist espresso? What coffee did they pair with the Suntan? The Roxbury? The Spitzenburg? Ashmead Kernel? And is the Northern Spy an apple or a coffee blend? Or both? Find out, only on the Gimme! Coffee blog.

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“it’s way cheaper than a daily Starbucks/Stumptown habit, and way more fun.”

You, too, can be “fierce, funny, and proud to be female” like the staff of Bust, by simply cruising over to Craft Coffee and signing up for a subscription. (Ed note: your impending ferocity and hilarity is not guaranteed, nor gender constrained.)

Photo by Jonathan Meter for Bite Sized Blog

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