Coffee Shrub

Coffee is a multi-stemmed, gangly, awkward, diminutive shrub. CoffeeShrub is dimunitive too; a micro-seller of coffee serving small shops that roast. We sell unroasted green coffee in 30lb and 60lb Grain-Pro bags, as well as nitrogen-flushed vacuum-packed bricks in amounts roughly equal to a 1/4 of a traditional jute bag. You have the convenience of thorough, descriptive reviews as a starting point for your own tasting notes, and also relevant information about the farms including images that you can use to promote the coffee. Look over our coffees and see if any of these offerings would compliment your current list.

Recent Coffee Additions

Rwanda Nyamasheke Karengera

Floral, honey-like aromatics permeate the flavor profile of Karengera. The dry fragrance has sweet butter and honey with honeysuckle flowers....
Guatemala Antigua Finca La Folie

This is a very clean, transparent flavor profile ... a prime example of top drawer wet-processed Guatemalan coffee. The dry fragrance is heavily...
Ethiopia Kochere Teklu Dembel

The aromatics are perfumed and floral, with bergamot citrus peel, honeysuckle blossom, berry and clover honey notes in the dry fragrance. With the...
Sumatra Toba Batak Peaberry

This peaberry can take light roasts as well as dark. Many commercial roasters use color and surface texture as indicators of roast level, and tend...

News

South American Harvest (05/17/12)
It's mid-May which means that virtually all I can think about is the South American harvest. Some of my favorite coffees come from the summer season which offers a such an interesting and broad spectrum of flavors. In my opinion top lots from...

The Narrows (05/17/12)
There's a phrase that I've been guilty of saying once or twice in the past, but which now really bugs me. The gist of it is: "I'm just trying to roast the coffee so that all of its best qualities are realized without showing my influence over it."...

Symposium, Imposium, Opposium (04/19/12)
I have always had mixed feelings about the SCAA Symposium. And in my inimitable style, I have had them in absence of any actual experience: I never went to Symposium. It is the 2 day event before the SCAA Exposition that is billed as a meeting of...

Harvest & Offering Outlook: Spring 2012 (04/04/12)
So I am fresh off my 2nd origin trip with Coffee Shrub which took me to El Salvador, Guatemala and Panama. Although I'm hoping to focus my efforts on some of the lesser traveled, more-difficult-to-source producing countries i.e. Peru, Ecuador,...

Fun with American DJ Black Lights! (03/20/12)
We had the opportunity to cup some phenomenal coffees last week while I was visiting Oakland. It was a blast to all get together to look at some new coffees from Ethiopia that will be arriving shortly as well as cupping through some great coffees...

Recent coffee comments

Posted in The Narrows on 05/18/12
Chris, I really appreciate your comments here. I've only been roasting for 2 1/2 years and am still very small by roaster standards. The man who...(view)
Posted in Kenya Nyeri Tegu AA on 05/16/12
Don't pull the trigger too soon on this coffee. While there is some lovely pineapple-like phospheric acid notes in the really light roast, it's just...(view)
Posted in Ethiopia Kochere Teklu Dembel on 05/16/12
there's a potent lemon-lime soda sweetness on both the dry fragrance and aroma on the break. The body is fantastic, almost buttery in the C+ range,...(view)
Posted in Rwanda Nyamasheke Karengera on 05/16/12
This is the coffee that I've been using for the Stretching Out the Roast articles over in the Sweet Maria's Library. I've found this coffee to have...(view)
Posted in Java Kopi Sunda on 05/15/12
This coffee transforms so much from hot to cold, lovely throughout. Cupped this coffee at Odell Brewing and the apricot stone fruit notes were...(view)