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 buck and a quarter a pound… $1.25.
So just how does Intelligentsia, leader of the Direct Trade movement, intend to brew such a rare and exquisite coffee? A press pot… nah, how about a vacuum pot/siphon… nah, how about a Mr. Coffee with a #5 flat bottom filter? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
“Guests will receive samples of this exquisite coffee, freshly brewed to order on Intelligentsia’s Clover coffee machine…”
We’ll see if we’re able to obtain some of this famed coffee for our customers in the Strip- where you too can experience Western Pennsylvania’s only Clover coffee machine.
At 21st Street Coffee and Tea we offer nearly a dozen unique and wonderful coffees every day- brewed with precision, to perfection, on the world’s finest coffee brewer. Stop in and experience it for yourself.