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Willoughby's Coffee & Tea
is a coffee roasting company with one
seemingly simple goal: to produce the finest, freshest, most skillfully
roasted coffee beans available anywhere - Serious Coffee.
Like many "simple" ambitions, ours requires an ongoing
dedication to quality, standards and knowledge. We hope our coffees
and teas reflect our commitment. What sets us apart?
Experienced roasters of specialty
coffee, unparalled coffee bean selection process, emphasis on freshness.
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News &
Reviews
WILLOUGHBY'S CELEBRATES 25 YEARS. WOW!
May, 2010 - Winner in three categories of 2010 New Haven Advocate Readers' Poll
Best Place to Buy Coffee Beans - Best Coffee House -
Best Place to Buy Loose Tea
Thank you one and all.
March, 2010 - Awards from the Connecticut Specialty Food Association
1st, 2nd and 3rd place awards in Outstanding Beverage Category
1st for Sumatra Mandheling Organic French Roast,
2nd place for Hao-Ya Keemun tea and 3rd for our English Breakfast tea! Thank you.
Coffee suggestions:
--Kenya Guama Mill Peaberry - Just arrived. Auction lot Kenya is a peaberry this time, beans that grow into the shape of pearls. Grown high in the Kirinyaga region this shade grown coffee is clean with a layered cup. Dry, winey but soft mouthfeel and sweetly fragrant.
--Costa Rica San Francisco 1900 Tarrazu - We visited Costa Rica in late February and visited with farm and mill owner Hector Bonilla. His coffee is always in the very top tier and we entered into a direct trade for this coffee after cupping about sixty samples. Extremely high grown at over 6200 feet (1900 meters). Concentrated and clean.
--Papua New Guinea AA Sigri Estate - We revisit a coffee we have offered in the past with this new crop. The Sigri Plantation produces some of the top coffee from the region, cultivated half a century ago with Jamaica Blue Mountain seed.
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Listen to Willoughby's on National Public Radio's "Where We Live" where the topic was - what else - coffee!
See us on WTNH Connecticut Style, broadcast on June 30th. Click here.
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Try our Serious Select limited edition coffees. This program offers exceptional and scarce coffees. Each week we offer at least two prestigious coffees, each unique and in very limited supply. These coffees roast and ship same day, once per week. While these are typically more expensive coffees, they are also unique. Several recent coffee selections have sold out. Next up, authentic Brazil Fazenda Santa Helena II - CoE Winner #9 .... Read more and see roasting schedule... |
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Willoughby's to be Presenting Sponsor of Yale Peabody Museum
Coffee: The World in Your Cup
On view May 29, 2010 – September 19, 2010. This traveling exhibition explores the powerful influence of coffee on the environment, human culture and economies worldwide—from coffee cultivation in Africa and South America to coffee culture in the United States. Through selected artifacts, films and photographs, this exhibition illuminates the fascinating stories behind the coffee we drink.
Our next scheduled event: we will be conducting a coffee tasting in the museum's coffee exhibition hall on Saturday, Sept. 11 from 11am to 1pm. |
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Glass teapot with infuser for under $10.
This teapot produces .75 liter, about 26 ounces of tea. Has all the features you need and very affordable.
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Willoughby's
Gifts
Our
famous, fresh roasted coffee is gift packaged,
affordable and attractive. |
Each
sampler contains 4 half pounds of coffee.
| 2
lb Sampler |
$27.75 |
| 2
lb Decaf Sampler |
$29.25 |
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Call
us at 800-388-8400 with your request or
send us an email.
Sampler details are viewable here and, we can
add a coffee grinder or plunger pot to a sampler.
We can customize samplers for your corporate of
personal gift list! |
- Guatemala Antigua Finca Colombia. Genuine Antigua. We have a direct trade relationship with this farm which we visited in February. Very small production. They grow Bourbon and Caturra varietals, red and yellow of both. Sweet, bright coffee from a valued tract of land.
- Ethiopia Yrgacheffe Koke Farms. An acclaimed washing station near Yrgacheffe's most moutainous region. Coffee from Koke Farms has won 1st and 3rd place in two recent competitions.
- New, Fair Trade and Organic from Peru. Clean, clear, crisp. The cooperative members have helped transform their growing practices, now using organic and sustainable practices to earn more for their coffee.
Sponsor of Yale Repertory Theatre
Willoughby's Coffee & Tea is proud to sponsor the entire 2009/10 season of this great New Haven performance theatre. Our coffee is served before and during each performance throughout the season. For tickets, please visit the Yale Rep site.
While there, please visit our newest store at 194 York Street, just diagonally across the street at the reconstructed and expanded Yale Architecture Building.
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| Arianna Farms Ono Kona Coffee was the recent past winner of the Kona Coffee Festival's Coffee Crown Competition. Very small production and we are only one of two companies where it can be found. No doubt Kona is expensive - $32.99 a pound - but you can be assured of it being 100% the real thing. |
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Our coffees have received a number of terrific reviews
lately. Six of our coffees have received high ratings on Coffee
Review this past year. Coffee Review is one of the foremost authorities about coffee
on the web and originaters of the 100 point rating system
for coffee. Details of the Willoughby's / Coffee Review articles are available. |
Back from Guatemala and Costa Rica - March, 2010 - We are just back from Guatemala and Costa Rica. We visited a couple of farms (fincas in Spanish) in Guatemala with whom we do business, including Fincas Colombia and Medina both in the city of Antigua. We also went to see a farm near Lake Atitlan, adjacent to and part of the vast national reserve. In Costa Rica we visited numerous micro mills, small processing stations that have taken root, where small farm owners and their closest neighbors can find identity for their high grown coffees without selling them to large mills, where they would have gotten blended and lost their individuality. This trend in Costa Rica, which we are plugged into, is revealing some awesome coffees for you to enjoy. |
Dedicated
website for home coffee roasting !
For those inclined
to roast
their own coffee at home we have a separate company and website called Roastmasters.com.
We offer a large selection of unroasted coffee, home
coffee roasters, espresso machines, tools and accessories.
Check
it out.
Roastmasters.com
offers all major brands of home coffee roasters including
the terrific Behmor 1600.
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Other News:
News -- June, 2008
We were the winning bidder of several recent Cup of Excellence coffee auctions. Exceptional coffees that we were seeking from Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. We also won the #2 coffee in the 2008 Best of Panama auction. Some great coffees are coming.
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Recent
Coffee Arrivals |
In addition to
the coffees shown above |
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New Items in stock |
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Older News
- May 6-13, 2008 we were international jurors at the Guatemala Cup of Excellence. We cupped some superb coffee. Winning coffees will be auctioned mid June.
- Mid April, 2008 we were judging the Best of Panama competition in Volcan, Panama. Another Geisha coffee took 1st place.
- In December 2006 we served as international judges of the Brazil
2006 Cup of Excellence competition. Read
more...
- May 10, 2008
Willoughby's wins New Haven Advocate Readers' Poll in
3 categories again! Best Place to Buy Coffee Beans, Best Coffeehouse,
Best Place to Buy Loose Tea. Thank you once again!
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Refer
friends to our site. Learn more about coffee
beans.
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Good News for Coffee Drinkers
Forbes.com - Studies indicate
that moderate coffee drinkers can not only enjoy their morning
java jolt, but they may also get significant health benefits
in the process.
Read
full article (opens in separate window). |
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Great news!
Willoughby's wins in all coffee categories in 2009 New Haven Advocate Readers' Poll - again. See
details.
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