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Our Sponsors
The goal of the Coffee Review is to entertain and educate
coffee lovers, food service professionals, and the coffee
trade with an objective and highly credible guide to identifying
and enjoying great coffee. The following sponsors generously
support our mission as an independent organization that conducts
blind tastings and publishes expert reviews from some of the
most experienced individuals in the specialty coffee industry:
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Coffee Klatch Roasting
877-455-2824
Coffee Klatch is an award-winning small-batch roasting company in the Los Angeles area with a recently established but quite distinguished record as a coffee leader and innovator. Roastermaster Mike Perry blends a background in chemical engineering with a love for great coffee to balance science and art in creating consistently outstanding, highly rated coffees and espressos. Resident barista and trainer, Heather Perry, won the 2003 United States Barista Championship brewing a Coffee Klatch espresso blend.
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The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf®
800-832-5323
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf® is the oldest and largest U.S. based, privately held, global specialty coffee and tea retailer. Since our first store opened in Brentwood, California in 1963, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf® has been importing, roasting and retailing the finest whole bean coffees, exotic teas and providing the most innovative coffee and tea drinks in the world. Today, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf® has more than 500 retail locations worldwide (the majority company owned and operated) and has become an industry leader, serving over 100 million coffee and tea drinks annually worldwide.
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Doi Chaang Coffee
866-9-CHAANG
Doi Chaang is a rare, single-estate coffee produced by a northern Thailand hill tribe in the Golden Triangle mountains of Thailand. Produced by 800 families under shade using sustainable agricultural methods and traditional processing and drying methods, Doi Chaang is 100% natural Arabica coffee and is freshly roasted in Alberta, Canada. The independent coffee growers receive over 50% of the profits of this unusual and pioneering venture.
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Alaska Coffee Roasting
907-457-5282
Alaska Coffee Roaster owner Michael Gesser knows coffee, having spent ten years in Kenya, and has personally traveled to every major coffee growing region. The coffees he brings to the shop are some of the best single-origin and varietals on the market. His hand-selected roasters are attentive to the dynamic chemistry of the beans during the roasting process, and along with a strong familiarity with each different coffee, bring out the very best in each.
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Après Coffee
877-777-3451
Après is a seller of quality gourmet coffees, espressos, teas, and chocolate presented in impressively distinctive packaging at reasonable prices. The company also offers attractive personalized messaging for special occasions or corporate gifting.
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The Roasterie
1-800-376-0245
The Roasterie is a different kind of coffee roasting company. Founder Danny O'Neill searches the world over to find the absolute best coffees available. The Roasterie then carefully air-roasts each varietal to its individual peak before packaging its coffees in state-of-the-art valve bags for immediate delivery.
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Tastes of the World
1-877-895-2662
Tastes of the World LLC is an online retailer and distributor of fine coffee, tea, chocolate, equipment and gifts. It offers convenient online access to some of the world's best products. Tastes of the World's mission emphasizes responsive customer service, quality products and giving back to the community. Tastes of the World will customize fund-raisers for an organization's needs.
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Island Joes Coffee
305-294-1190
From a gas station in Marathon, Florida to an international shipper, Island Joe's Coffee was started by a dad, two sons and a daughter, truly an "American Dream" come true. Now located in old town Key West, Florida, Island Joe's is quickly becoming recognized worldwide. We import and roast with passion, some of the finest green coffee beans in the world. "The Proof is in the Cup."
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Willoughbys Coffee & Tea
800-388-8400
Willoughby's Coffee & Tea was founded in 1985 by Bob Williams and Barry Levine. For more than twenty years, the company's core mission has been to produce the finest and freshest coffee beans possible and deliver products and service that are unparalleled in the marketplace. Five guiding principles - Quality, Freshness, Value, Service, and Commitment - ensure customers always enjoy "Serious Coffee."®
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Don Francisco Coffee
1-800-697-JAVA(5282)
F. Gaviña & Sons is a family-owned and managed roaster in the Los Angeles area whose upscale Don Francisco's line of specialty coffees is named after Francisco Gaviña, who was born and raised on the family coffee plantation in Cuba and whose four children now manage the company with a passion for coffee and tradition. Gaviña prides itself on offering a large range of roast styles and origins, all of which embody their commitment to supplying "real coffee from real coffee people."
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Paradise Roasters
877-229-6336
Paradise Roasters is a family-run wholesale and direct-to-consumer coffee
roasting business staffed by people with a passion for coffees of distinction and quality and a goal of balancing old traditions with newtechnology. Paradise expertly roasts the finest coffees available to order
and ships them within 24 hours for best freshness and flavor. Since its inception Paradise has been a leader in the specialty industry partnering with the best coffee importers, exporters, and farmers to develop andintroduce coffees that are more than just great - they're Paradise!
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SpecialtyJava.com
1-888-586-JAVA
Unlike wine, roasted coffee does not improve with age. SpecialtyJava.com imports the world's finest specialty coffee beans, fresh roasts each order, and ships within hours. Music theme blends such as Smooth Jazz, Rock N' Java, New York New York, and Constant Cravings reflect the encouragement the founder received from a well-known musician friend to start this gourmet coffee roastery. Today, SpecialtyJava.com satisfies over 3,500 wholesale and retail specialty coffee customer accounts throughout the USA.
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Cafemakers Coffee Consulting
808-443-0290
Cafemakers is a business consultancy that improves the coffee beverage quality and financial performance of retail coffee shop chains, casual or fine dining restaurants and hospitality businesses. Along with his own distinguished background in international retailing and proven experience in the specialty coffee industry, Cafemakers' founder Andrew Hetzel has assembled a team of experts in their respective fields that assist with concept development, launch, improvement and expansion of retail coffee businesses anywhere in North America or worldwide.
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PTs Coffee
888-678-5282
PT's Coffee was founded in a side room of a Topeka, Kansas restaurant in 1993, making it one of Kansas's oldest small-batch
specialty coffee roasters. Today it continues its emphasis on artisan roasting, freshness, and a large range of fine coffees sourced directly from origin. PT's sells its freshly-roasted coffees on the Internet, at two lively retail outlets, and offers full-service support to wholesale customers. Its baristas have compiled an impressive record of success in local and national competitions, and its coffees consistently appear at the top of local media polls.
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GreatCoffee.com
1-866-240-0033
GreatCoffee.com is a leading online retailer of highly rated coffees, equipment, and gifts. The company specializes in convenient home and office delivery of exceptional coffees and equipment that have earned top ratings from the Coffee Review.
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CafeVivo
949-625-2560
CafeVivo is a coffee lovers' club providing its members with on-demand roasted coffee. Coffee is roasted and shipped directly to customers after each order, and is delivered in a few days for the superior taste that can only be obtained from the freshest coffee possible. Members also receive delivery each month of beans from origins around the world, including Sumatra and other islands of Indonesia, Central and South America, Oaxaca, Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea, to name a few. CafeVivo roasts in San Diego, California and strives to provide a truly unique boutique membership for all coffee drinkers.
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Zoka Coffee Roaster & Tea Company
866-965-2669
Zoka Coffee Roaster & Tea Company is Roast Magazine's 2008 Macro Coffee Roaster of the Year. For over 10 years Zoka has been committed to bringing its customers the finest artisan roasted coffees available. It is committed to improving the livelihoods of its producing partners, bolstering the environment and delivering excellent quality in the cup. Zoka draws a solid line from the farm to the consumer, and all coffee lots are traceable through reliable infrastructures.
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Green Mountain Coffee
1-800-223-6768
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has developed from a one-store roaster-café in Waitsfield, Vermont, to a publicly traded company supplying premium coffees to over 6,700 customer accounts. It remains remarkably true to its original vision as a coffee roaster dedicated to quality in the cup and quality of life and environment in coffee-growing regions.
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Terroir Coffee
1-866-444-5282
Terroir Coffee is an elite, genuinely artisan coffee company that only roasts coffees from individual farms or cooperatives, preserves them green in special storage conditions, and roasts them with a light touch to preserve the unique character of each coffee. Terroir is the creation of George Howell, an innovative, leading figure in the American specialty coffee industry.
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Bucks County Coffee
1-800-844-8790
Founded in a garage in 1982 and now operating almost forty retail stores, Bucks County Coffee, guided by founder Rodger Owen and his wife Cathy, has developed over the past decade into a vigorous and generous-spirited leader of the specialty coffee movement.
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Moore Coffee
800-994-8060
Moore Coffee, Tea & Spices is an artisan coffee company that roasts and flavors on order for both wholesale and on-line retail customers. It roasts only high quality estate and single-origin coffees, selecting the optimum roast style for each coffee, whether dark, medium or light, and works closely with wholesale customers to develop proprietary blends.
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Bellissimo Coffee Group
1-800-655-3955
Through its ground-breaking educational and training videos, its books, and its consulting services, Bellissimo and founder Bruce Milletto have supplied inspiration and guidance to an entire generation of newcomers to specialty coffee.
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