We want to try a new idea, but first some back story:
We get coffee roasted and delivered to our shops twice per week. This, along with efficient inventory management (we do a pretty good job), ensures the coffees we’re serving and the beans you’re taking home are between 2-9 days out of the roaster. Our [...]
Some very exciting news. I’m sure Intelligentsia will be providing more details, but I found this so interesting I wanted to share it.
Intelligentsia is now importing their own coffee.
We received our first shipment of Direct Trade Honduras (La Tortuga) this last week of May. Every year this coffee is a favorite among all of [...]
A few times over the past week a customer has said to me:
“what? you’re sold out of coffee xyz? again? really?”
Yes, for really. We sold out. I told the customer that if we had an inexhaustible supply of coffee xyz sooner or later that coffee would be stale, so I’d rather sell out frequently and [...]
We’re asked all the time about coffee freshness-we’ve discussed freshness in prior posts but I wanted to say something about espresso.
We get weekly deliveries of Black Cat Espresso from Intelligentsia. The coffee is roasted and ships out the same day. Chicago to Pittsburgh is only a two-day trip via UPS Ground. The coffee is shipped [...]
