January is slipping through our fingers. But we have some busy, busy like Grant Green, fingers. There are some stellar new offerings from Rwanda, Kenya, and Colombia just launched on shrub in the last week or so. I've also been gearing up to host the Roasters Guild Executive Council annual January meeting here at shrub mountain headquarters in Fort Collins, CO. It will be a blast having all these folks in town, and on the night of Thursday the 26th there's going to be a coffee rodeo at the very super Cranknstein Coffee Roaster, Bike Shop, Tap Room.
I'm off early tomorrow (actually my ride will be here in about 45 mins) on my way to West Virginia to start setting up the Roasters Guild Retreat. Really looking forward to this year's retreat, we've been working very hard on delivering a challenging and engaging program. I'm most looking forward to seeing everybody who's coming out though. If you are coming out for the retreat and we haven't met, please be sure to introduce yourself.
Hey Germs, I will be tumbling down shrub mountain to visit Seattle this week for roasters guild meetings, and then will be in Tacoma for the NW Barista Rodeo Hoedown. I know that some of you will be around as well and competing even. Let me know so that I may prepare my pennants, but for the reals it will be great to see you.
Hey shrubland, welcome to the future. We're pretty certain that this is going to be a year. Shrub is back full force (hence the lack of half steppin') after a lovely holiday stretch and we'll have some new offerings up soon as well as the return of the Quest, and the plan is that a good portion of our new releases will be 3 dimensional. Hope everybody is ready.
Hope everyone has been having a lovely/busy/stress-free/care-free/coal-free/troll-free holiday time zone. Coffee Shrub will be closed starting tomorrow Dec. 30th to observe the birth of l'il baby twent-y-leven, and will re-open to fill orders on Monday Jan. 3. Looking forward to the promise of a new year of fun and games.
Happy Holidays to all. Hope everyone is having a lovely old time. We will be closed until next Monday. The shopping cart will remain open over this stretch, but orders will not go out until Monday, just so's you know's. Enjoy the times.
So we have some new offerings coming very soon, at least one before the Friday. I'm cupping a small (14 screen) El Salvador right at this moment, and there is perhaps some new Kenya and Ethiopia offerings along with the return of the Sulawesi Toarco AA which, if you don't remember or didn't get a chance to try it before, is crazy delicious. In the meantime, here is another Quest video. I can't say enough how much fun I'm having with this little roaster, really truly impressed and excited about the possibilities. I'll post some Quest experiments here soon.
Hey Shrub-a-dubs, it has been an exciting couple of weeks for us. We've been caught in the whirlwind of the launching of the Quest roaster and the Manzano Project and have been super jazzed by the reaction from folks.
We have sold our full stock of the Full Natural Finca El Manzano that we had for sale on Shrub, but the 3-pack set of all three processes is still available at Sweet Maria's. We strongly encourage you to check out the whole set if you haven't yet:
Take a glance right up there at that menu bar at the top, right there above that thing that is not a cherry or a bean or is somewhat important. You might notice that there is a new tab there, a tab for "Products". We here at Shrub very much have our main focus on green coffee sourcery, but we do offer a few other products and today we offer two new products. One of them is this amazing T-shirt:Sourcery T: Sourcery T
Congratulations to Rob Kettner of Fernwood Coffee Co. in Victoria, BC who is the 2010 Canadian National Barista Champion! We are totally jazzed that the Costa Rica Lourdes De Naranjo-Finca Genesis was used by Rob in the competition. Apparently he had quite the impressive custom cold brew set-up along with roast profiles of the coffee displayed on each individual judge's service. Pretty Hip. Great job, Rob. The Genesis is available for a limited time for those in shrub-land who have not yet, but would like to, check it check it out.
