☕️ Coffee News + New Hats + Last 2024 Roastery Experiences

As cooler temperatures bid farewell to the Summer, we’re also entering the final week of our Ethereal Summer Blend! If you’ve fallen in love with its bright, vibrant notes and refreshingly bold, smooth cold brews, now is your last chance to enjoy it one last time until next year!

We also just added one more date (Saturday, Nov 9 at 3 pm) to our final 2024 Brewing Experiences, designed for anyone who wants to elevate their home brewing skills, or simply spend a fun evening with us at the roastery. Whether you're a total beginner or a total coffee nerd, this hands-on workshop will give you a solid understanding of brewing principles that apply to most (non-Espresso) methods. You’ll get hands-on brewing experience with different beans, get to ask all your coffee questions to a professional, and leave the event with your own brand new V60 Dripper, a bag of freshly roasted high-impact coffee, and other surprises! Based on your feedback, our roastery experiences are now on weekends, and earlier in the day (so we can all enjoy a caffeinated afternoon without disrupting anyone’s sleep). Tickets will always be exclusively at ethosroasters.com until supplies last (and events are limited to 10 participants, for the best, most personalized experience) - and we hope you’ll consider joining us if you haven’t yet participated on this one! We’ll be creating a new Experience offering for next year, so stay tuned!

In other news, we have new embroidered Ethos hats in two new colors (which we hope you’ll love!) - Denim Blue and Vintage Gray - both very high-quality, machine-washable, and lovingly embroidered by “Handmade by Malee” in Lakeland, FL! They’re now online, and available for shipping and pick-up orders at the Lakeland Farmer’s Market, or at our newest local pick-up option —Honeycomb Bakers in Winter Haven!

Finally, expect new coffee launches very soon… we have a new one planned for October, November, and December - to complete our largest coffee selection of the year for all your Holiday gifting (and drinking!) needs! Expect exotic profiles, creative fermentations, and absolute deliciousness in every new surprise (and yes, we’ll have a 2024 Barrel Aged offering too!). As always, we welcome your ideas on what YOU would like to see from us, as everything we do—we do it for you, and thanks to you, our Ethos family!

Love Brewing Greatness with you,

Jolian & Lisbeth.

☕️ Savor the last sips! Last call for 3 exceptional coffees!

As we bid farewell to the last few kilos of three remarkable coffees, we invite you to join us in celebrating their unique flavors and stories… and the few last cups in the next few weeks! Let’s take a closer look at these extraordinary coffees that have left their indelible mark on our journey…

(1) Amani (DR Congo): a rich, creamy, dark roast adventure with earthy undertones and a sweet, nutty finish. This coffee is a testament to the finest washed African Bourbons sourced from the Lake Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. And it's not just about the taste, but also impacting the lives of Congolese farmers and helping to break the cycles of poverty and injustice. If you love dark roasts, please don’t panic - we’re already planning an exciting new dark roast blend (also featuring this CoOp!) as a replacement, so stay tuned for “Eclipse”, launching in early April!

(2) Yirgacheffe: this one is for the fans of overly floral, fruit-bomb, light roast coffee experiences. This heirloom natural boasts a unique flavor profile with strong florals, peach, and white sandalwood aromas that are uniquely Ethiopian. It has been an Ethos staple for several years, yet the CoOp is moving away from Naturals, and it looks like most our Ethos family may also be favoring more “Honeys” and “Washed” coffees, so we’re discontinuing it to make room for your future new favorites, and we may have an Ethiopian Natural back if we find just the perfect one for us!

(3) Brew Greatness 8 Year Anniversary Blend: this blend is a limited-edition flavor bomb, which we only do once a year! By aging the last of our honey-processed "Pacheco" in semi-dry oak barrels and infusing them with Madagascar Vanilla beans, we've created a truly unique experience this year. The inclusion of Yirgacheffe and Poaquil Natural adds layers of chocolate and red fruit notes, resulting in a sweet, balanced, and full-bodied cup. It's a tribute to the impactful partnerships we've forged over the years and a reminder of how beautifully sweet it is to make an impact through coffee.

Each of these coffees represents more than just a wonderful cup; they embody a commitment to quality, sustainability, and making a positive impact in the world. As we bid farewell to these exceptional offerings, we invite you to savor every last sip and cherish every moment. Whether it's the earthy richness of Amani, the floral sweetness of Yirgacheffe, or the nuanced flavors of the Anniversary Blend, there's a story waiting to be told - and to reminisce about- in every cup. Thank you for being a part of our journey, and we look forward to sharing many more memorable coffee adventures with you in the future… like the new Eclipse Dark Roast coming in April (yes, just in time for our historical Solar eclipse on April 8!!!)

Let’s keep Brewing Greatness!

💛 Jolian & Lisbeth

☀️ Summer Coffee news + upcoming Summer Series!

Happy May! This will be our last “behind-the-scenes” post for a while, since we’ll again be doing our technical “RE: Summer Series” in June, July, and August this year - which we’re planning to focus on 3 major coffee brewing methods (let us know if there’s a particular one you absolutely don’t want us to miss!).

So, we’d like to share some upcoming changes to our lineup this Summer. We’ll be discontinuing “Rio Coco” (Nicaragua) to make room for a limited-edition, off-the-charts microlot from Colombia… it’ll be called “El Espejo” and it may one of the creamiest, most complex and boldly sweet coffees we’ve ever encountered! It comes from a talented farmer, Marlibia Perdomo, who is a member of ASOPAP in Planadas (yes, the same region as our current “Planadas”!) - her coffee was just so outstanding this year, that they singled it out to submit to local coffee competitions and sell the rest to a small-farmer-championing roaster (lucky us! 😉). You’ll see a “last call” on Rio Coco for the next month or so, and you’ll see the new “El Espejo” launch soon after! (why the need to keep our options limited? we’re in our “slower” summer months, so having too many choices is a bit problematic on the production side… as the more choices we have, the smaller the size of our batches, which makes it challenging to achieve a consistently great roast).

We’ll continue offering Ethereal until September… and “Pacheco” for as long as supplies last (we may have a replacement later in the year if our non-profit partners are able to identify and select another high-scoring microlot from the group of small farmers they’re helping in Honduras right now… it will likely be a beautiful Washed coffee (our current “Pacheco” ended up as an award-winning coffee that was sold to Japanese buyers for record-setting prices this year… we declined the opportunity, as we’re also focused on maintaining our value, and a $40/lb coffee seemed not to offer the value we would want for our Ethos family) - yet we feel so fortunate we were able to be one of the earliest champions of this outstanding farmer who is now inspiring and helping lift others in his community.

We look forward to keep Brewing Greatness with you this Summer, and we and our small team are always grateful for every single chance we get to roast for you,

Jolian & Lisbeth