We get asked by friends and family where to buy coffee a lot. It’s a tough question! It’s easy to lose track of just how many incredible, fresh, vibrant coffees are out there. Every week, we ask our advertising roasting partners for coffee recommendations they’re most excited about. Here’s this week’s collection of some of the most interesting whole bean coffee offerings available from talented roasters across the globe.
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Heartwood Coffee While cherry prices were high this year, Basha maintained a very uncommon practice: delivering a second payment to the 126 producers he bought cherry from once the coffee sold. Basha grows coffee in semi-forested plots on 12 hectares in addition to operating collection sites in Bombe, Shantawane, and Kokose—collecting cherry from producers growing coffee as high as 2,300 masl. |
 $30/12oz |
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Partners Coffee Las Moritas is the distinguished farm of Higinio and Aura Gómez. This lot, produced in collaboration with the supremely talented team at Los Volcanes, is from an exceptional harvest of a variety they are calling “nance,” recently uncertain whether it is actually yellow catuaí or yellow caturra. In a round, balanced cup, we’re tasting brown sugar and molasses, ginger cookie, warm spice, pineapple, pear, and orange zest. |
 $25/12oz |
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Equator Coffees Truly flourishing in espresso form, this complex single origin coffee comes from smallholder farmers on the slopes of Mount Kenya and is named for one of the mountain’s highest peaks. |
 $22/12oz |
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Klatch Coffee Klatch Coffee Founder and Roastmaster Mike Perry’s long-running relationship with Panama’s Altieri family has yielded a special collaboration: our very first Gesha signature edition! This exclusive coffee is limited to 50 signed and individually numbered Pearl Collection boxes. This Signature Edition be packaged and shipped following a single roast on Monday, September 22. The first 25 boxes also include a bonus cupping spoon! |
 $79.95/170g |
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Madcap Coffee Luz Mary Galindez works alongside supportive family and neighbors to pick ripe Pink Bourbon cherries across her 2.5 acres in Palestina, Huila, Colombia. Ideal terroir, diligent processing and sorting result in a complex yet stunning final cup, bursting with sweetness and flavor notes of strawberry, passion fruit, and cherry blossoms. |
 $29/8oz |
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Sightglass Coffee Strawberry, Cocoa Nib, Orange Blossom Honey |
 $23/12oz |
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PERC Cinnamon and maple buns from award-winning coffee producer Diego Bermudez! His processing methods are truly scientific. He has a laboratory where he uses scientific methods to enhance the maximum potential of his coffee. The result is a super complex coffee, but in a warm, comforting way. It’s not super fruity or funky; this coffee is all about sweet, baking spices. It falls somewhere between a cinnamon roll and a spice cake. |
 $31/12oz |
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Blueprint Coffee The coffee-producing region Ngozi lies in north-central Burundi. With high elevation and mild, warm year-round weather, the environment in Ngozi provides excellent conditions for growing delicious specialty coffees. Turaco is a microlot named for the brightly colored bird commonly seen enlivening the Burundi skies. We taste blackberry, rose, maple, lime, and dark chocolate in this complex and delicious cup. |
 $25.5/12oz |
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Olympia Coffee Kirimahiga washing station delivers everything we love about Kenyan coffee: big sweetness, bold acidity, and rich body. Grown between Mt. Kenya and Lake Naivasha, this meticulously processed coffee bursts with flavor. |
 $24.50/12oz |
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Caffé Umbria Ethically sourced from sustainable farms in Mexico and South America, this blend is earthy with notes of stone fruit and lemon zest. Roasted medium-dark to bring out citrus sweetness, this blend will reveal its intricacies with different brew methods. |
 $18/12oz |
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Stumptown Coffee Roasters Cold Brew Summer Blend features some of our favorite structured, sweet Direct Trade coffees — from our partners at Rwanda Huye Mountain and in Costa Rica’s renowned Los Santos de Tarrazú region — to create the classic Stumptown Cold Brew you know and love. Brewed hot or cold, this blend delivers a fruit-forward acidity, milk chocolate finish, and a nougat sweetness. |
 $23/12oz |
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La Barba Coffee This washed pink bourbon is a reminder of the significance of farming and terroir. Clean, balanced, and delicate, it has bright floral aromas and earl grey notes of bergamot and fruity coriander. As it cools these notes mellow a bit and the cup gets sweeter and sweeter with a creamy, sugary sweetness. |
 $27/12oz |
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Mr. Espresso Brazilian coffees are often viewed as “workhorse” coffees. They’re regularly used as the main component of a blend to give good chocolate notes and body, but they’re rarely the star of the show. This coffee eschews that designation and truly shines as a single origin espresso and brew. Brazil Córrego Da Boa Vista is a coffee that absolutely bursts with freshness. In the cup you’ll find an abundance of florals including lavender and jasmine, followed by vetiver, and ending with toasted almond. |
 $21/12oz |
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Verve Coffee Roasters Balanced and bright, the Grateful Dead blend is easy-drinking with layered complexity. It opens with a sweet burst of Plum and Nectarine, grounded by warm Black Tea. A clean finish brings it all together, offering a smooth cup that’s as timeless as the music that inspired it. |
 $24/12oz |
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Onyx Coffee Lab Gore Dako has solidified its place within our list of favorites since the inaugural harvest of 2019. Grown in the pristine native forests of Ethiopia, this coffee goes through a slow ripening stage, concentrating sugars. When roasted, the cup yields delicate notes of stone fruit and florals throughout. |
 $26/10oz |
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Portland Coffee Roasters Endless Summer originates from Kayon Mountain Coffee Farm in Ethiopia’s renowned Guji Zone. This area has a lush, dense forest thanks to the generations of indigenous tribes who have organized and legislated to protect it. Endless Summer is made of varieties 74110 and 74112 – sourced from Ethiopia’s Jimma Agricultural Research Center. Organically grown cherries are hand-picked for imperfections and naturally processed in the open sun, resulting in a beautiful and bright flavor. |
 $21/12oz |
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Night Swim Coffee COMMUNITY: Smallholders Farmers |
 $24/12oz |
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Joe Coffee Apple Blossom, Candied Grapefruit, Apricot |
 $18/6oz |
