21st Street Coffee and Tea is proud to announce that we have Hacienda la Esmeralda’s Geisha coffee, the same coffee purchased at auction for $130/lb earlier this year, on order from Intelligentsia and scheduled to arrive next week. We will update our website later next week with details of when it will be available. Since [...]
Our roaster (Intelligentsia) announced today that they will host a preview/tasting party at their Chicago Roasting Works to unveil Hacienda La Esmeralda’s Geisha coffee- purchased green at auction for $130/lb. Translated to a roasted/retail price it would be roughly $200-$250 per pound. For reference, the Fair Trade price for a pound is somewhere around a [...]
Have you ever been to a coffee shop to order an espresso, only to be served a watery, bitter (or sour, or burnt) and altogether offensive experience? Did the espresso taste like tree bark, or perhaps cigarette ash? Why would people want to drink this stuff? Surprisingly, a lot of people throw down good money [...]
Why do we purchase coffee from Intelligentsia? Simply put- consistently excellent quality. How do they do it? They travel around the world to origin, build long-term relationships with farmers and implement continuous improvements that ensure the coffees are of truly excellent quality. Farmers work collaboratively with Intelligentsia to “score” their coffees. This score translates into [...]
