Try our Serious Select limited edition coffees. This program offers exceptional and scarce coffees. Each week we offer 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 hard to find. Several recent coffee selections have sold out. Panama Kotowa Duncan Organic microlot This direct trade coffee is the same as the first place auction lot winner in the Best of Panama traditional category a year ago. Like the prior year's Panama Don K, this too is grown by the Ricardo Koyner's Kotowa Farm. The coffee fruit for Duncan Organic was kept on the tree for an exceedingly long time so that it could be ultra-ripe, albeit at the expense of loss due to winds. A tremendous achievement combining citrus and honey flavors with silky body. Read more...

Coffee suggestions:
-- Costa Rica San Francisco 1900 - A direct trade favorite. Hector Bonilla owns some of the best pieces of coffee growing land in Tarrazu, this plot at 1900 meters. He also owns the venerable Don Mayo micromill where his own coffees are processed as well as other notable area growers. This single plantation coffee has layers of flavors, citric brightness and chocolate smoothness.
-- Panama La Milagrosa Boquete - Another direct trade favorite back again this year. Grower Hector Vargas keeps being in the top group each year at the Best of Panama competition. We have been purchasing coffee directly from him since before his acclaim and continue to have this wonderful coffee each year. Limited.
-- Guatemala Antigua La Tacita - Fourth generation Falla family farm that produces flavorful Bourbon varietal, shade grown. We have had this relationship for a number of years. It is one of the limited number of authentic Antigua farms and one of the best.

Introducing the BraZen Coffee Brewer
A breakthrough home coffeemaker that puts you in control of brewing variables.
$199 includes free shipping, a pound of coffee and more. Features that, until now, were reserved for professional equipment.

• Set brew temperature in 1 degree increments from 190 to 210 F degrees. Can be calibrated to altitude for accuracy.
• Set pre-soaking of grounds from in 1 second increments up to 4 minutes.
• Stainless water reservoir. Brewer supplied with goldtone filter.

Recent accolades from Coffee Review
Oct 2012 Panama Perci Gesha Natural	Sept 2012 Costa Rica El Espino Honey	Aug 2012 Panama Elida Estate Natural	Aug 2012 Panama Elida Estate Reserve	May 2012 Burundi Kiryama Washing Station

OUR 28th YEAR

Thank you New Haven Advocate readers once again!
May, 2012 - Winner in three categories of 2012 New Haven Advocate Readers' Poll
Best Place to Buy Coffee Beans - Best Coffee House - Best Place to Buy Loose Tea

May, 2011 - Winner in three categories of 2011 New Haven Advocate Readers' Poll
Best Place to Buy Coffee Beans - Best Coffee House - Best Place to Buy Loose Tea

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.

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• Ethiopia Yrgacheffe Kochere Grade 1. Kochere is a tiny area within Yrgacheffe with a washing station where small, local farmers bring their coffee harvest for processing. This is a carefully run washing station, highly selective about quality. The coffee is bright, sweet, very clean and citrusy. Chocolate body. Crisp and aromatic.
• 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.