Prices for our current coffee offerings

In single origins, we currently carry coffees from Colombia, Ethiopia, and Sumatra. The Colombia is, alas, no longer from the northern Sierra Nevada mountains. Our current selection is Valle de Cauca, on the Pacific coast northwest of the better known regions of Popayan and Huila. We continue to offer a natural Ethiopia Sidamo that is flavorful and quite fruity . Our current Sumatra is called Gayo Linge -- lot's of body, dark chocolate and cherry. Stop by Old Europe (13 Broadway in Asheville) and try some, it's the house coffee there.

We once again have some of the Salvador Santa Rita natural process. It's late in the season and some of the fruitiness has faded, but it still has that red berry juiciness and lots of acidity. Waking Life is featuring it now on their drip brewed bar. Santa Rita is grown in the western most Department of Ahuachapán which lies on the Pacific coast and borders Guatemala. The coffee growing regions of El Salvador are shown on this map.

We have a limited supply of the Burundi A+ Kayanza Bourbon. Order early, Waking Life is still featuring it as a single origin espresso. Bourbon is the variety of the coffea arabica plants that produced the beans (Bourbon is widely grown in Burundi), Kayanza is a province on the border with Rwanda, and A+ is just the bean size (smaller than AA, I think). This washed Burundi lacks some of the earthiness of East African naturals, but it's slightly lemony and floral, and has a pleasant tartness. For the geographically challenged, Burundi is southwest of Kenya across Lake Victoria, and borders Rwanda, Congo, and Tanzania. It's one of the poorest countries in Africa; coffee is a main export and source of revenue. An informative report about Burundi and coffee production here.

The base for our French Roast is currently Honduras Marcala. Though not bad as an origin itself, we don't list it separately, so if you'd like some, just let us know in an email.

In decaf, we are still using Royal Coffee's Royal Select™ water process, which, although a tad below CO₂, is quite good for a water processed decaf and certainly is far better than Swiss Water™. The current selection in decaf is a natural processed Ethiopia Sidamo.

Single Origins	2.5kg	1kg	500g
Colombia Valle de Cauca	45.35	19.15	11.15
Ethiopia Sidamo	44.65	18.85	10.95
Sumatra Mandheling	48.35	20.65	11.95
El Salvador Santa Rita	45.35	19.15	11.15
Burundi Kayanza	45.35	19.15	11.15
Roasts & Blends
French Roast	47.65	20.15	11.85
Espresso, Viennese, Breakfast, Mocha Java	47.65	20.15	11.85
Decaf
Decaf Ethiopia, French, or Espresso	48.65	21.15	12.55

We have shifted from a one-price-fits-all strategy -- which is much easier to maintain -- to pricing the origins individually because there are now substantial differences in our costs, depending on the coffee's origin.

Because we enjoy being contrarians, our packages are all metric sizes. The industry standard 5lb bag you see everywhere is, for us, a 2.5 kilogram bulk pack (that's 5.51 pounds). We have also 1 kilogram (2.2 pound) and 500 gram (1.1 pound) packages. Prices are USD per single package of 2.5kg, 1kg, or 500g of a single coffee. All prices are FOB Candler, NC 28715, and are subject to change without notice. (Please see this page for more details on shipping costs and methods.)

We prefer to ship only whole bean coffee, but if you insist, we'll grind at no charge. We'll try to grind to your specification but we can not guarantee that the grind will be optimum for your brewer. Weights shown are for whole bean. Ground weight may be slightly lower because some chaff is lost when grinding, there may be additional outgassing of CO₂, or we may spill some.

If you think the price of coffee in grocery stores and coffee shops is getting too high, we agree. Here's a comparison of some local and on-line prices, and what our coffees cost per pound.

(For descriptions of these and other coffees, go here.)