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.

News & Reviews Happy holidays to our many customers and friends. Happy New Year! Introducing Serious Select limited edition coffees. We recently initiated this program which offers exceptional and scarce coffees. Between now and the end of the year we offer four prestigious coffees, each unique and in very limited supply. These coffees roast and ship once per week. Read more and see roasting schedule...   India AA Elkhill Estate - New crop is now back in stock. This coffee earned us a 95 point rating last year by Coffee Review. New crop Ethiopia Harrar Fair Trade and Organic. Terrific new crop Guatemala Antigua Finca La Tacita, a favorite in prior years. Ethiopia Yrgacheffe Kochere, a micro region and washing station near Yrgacheffe. High grown, piquant and very interesting profile. Opening soon - A new Willoughby's Coffee & Tea store in the Yale School of Architecture - New Haven, CT. Watch for our opening. Jobs available.   Arianna Farms Ono Kona Coffee was the winner of the Kona Coffee Festival's Coffee Crown Competition this year. Only 45 bags of the coffee was produced and we are only one of two companies where it can be found. No doubt Kona is expensive - $29.99 a pound - but you can be assured of it being 100% the real thing, and the top pick in the competition this year. Electric coffee brewer running slow? Read our instructions for cleaning your brewer. April, 2008 - Coffee Review gives our Panama Elida Estate a 95 point rating. It is the highest rated coffee this issue in which they reviewed limited edition, Special Reserve coffees. They write: "Willoughby's Panama Elida Estate (95) was a spectacularly pure, complex yet sweetly balanced coffee, a sort of classic Latin American washed coffee on steroids..." The 2007 crop has been sold out so none is available at this moment. However, 2008 new crop coffee is in stock. Read more...   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 detailed. 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 $22.50 2 lb Award Winner Sampler $34.50 2 lb Decaf Sampler $25.75 2 lb Serious Select Sampler $67.50 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!   Back from Central American travel - May, 2008 - We took two trips to Central America, one to Panama in April and and the other to Guatemala in May. In both cases we were there as jurors in international competitions, the Best of Panama and the Cup of Excellence in Guatemala. We cupped some great coffee in both places and in late May we were the successful bidder of the #2 coffee in the Best of Panama auction, which should arrive at our roasting plant around the end of June. Also, we acquired the #4 coffee from the Guatemala Cup of Excellence auction, El Socorro which was the prevous year's number 1. This coffee will soon be here. The work of a juror is quite arduous though very enjoyable. In Guatemala we spent four full and one partial day cupping from early morning; one day a full ten hours. But the results are wonderful discoveries of new and exciting coffees.   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 new Behmor 1600.

Refer friends to our site. Learn more about coffee beans.

Great news!
Willoughby's wins in all coffee categories in 2008 New Haven Advocate Readers' Poll - again. See details.

We hope you find our site easy to use, informative and more enjoyable. If you need anything just call us or drop us a note with your comments. Read about website features here.

To begin shopping click here or the Storefront link viewable from any page. Or, select the category of your choice from the menu above. Some new site features:

• Coffee and tea photos and descriptions greatly expanded.
• Set up a customer account to save your shipping information for future visits.
• Expanded product selection.
• Optional "save baskets" feature makes repeat orders very easy. Fill up a basket, give it a name and save it for future use; when you return next time just retrieve the basket, edit as needed and checkout. You can save up to 5 baskets allowing you to save items you send to friends too.
• Mini basket displays your current shopping in progress.
• Estimate shipping before checkout.
• Or skip any/all of the above and just shop and checkout without an account.

You can also place an order without registering and head straight to checkout. Thanks for your continued support.