As promised in my last blog, here is your brewed coffee calendar for May 5-June 29. Enjoy!
Week 1: 5/5-5/10
Café Estima Blend®
Our rich and roasty-sweet combination of Fair Trade Certified™
coffees is from Latin America and East Africa, and it shows just how
delicious it can be to turn beliefs into actions. This is good coffee
doing good things for the farmers who grew it.
The sweetness of this coffee is achieved through a slightly darker
roast. It’s a full-bodied, well-balanced coffee with great versatility,
something that is equally at home in your press, drip brewer or
espresso machine.
Week 2: 5/11-5/17
Komodo Dragon Blend®
This coffee is bold and
surprisingly snappy.
It was also, until recently, just as rare as that elusive and
endangered animal. We first sold this blend by mail and online orders
only. But it became such a customer favorite that we unleashed it
within our stores as well. It’s an assertive combination of several
Asia/Pacific coffees: part bright, biting acidity and part earthy,
loamy smoothness.
Week 3: 5/18-5/24
Caffè Verona®
Caffè Verona® is a seductive blend of beans from Latin America and
Indonesia, with a gentle touch of Italian Roast lending depth, soul and
sweetness.
Week 4: 5/25-5/31
Gold Coast Blend®
Just like the city of Chicago, which it celebrates. In 1987, as
Starbucks opened its first stores in the Second City, our coffee
artists created a blend that would stand up to the coldest winds off
Lake Michigan.
The source of this blend’s bigness is a secret recipe of Latin
America, Asia/Pacific and dark roast coffees. The interplay of these
very different coffees weaves a deep and densely rich, complex taste,
with waves of flavor unfolding as you drink it.
Because of its great depth, this coffee is a fun one to pair foods
with. Here are four flavors that can hold their own next to it: tangy
cranberry, woodsy maple, buttery-sweet caramel and dense cheesecake.
Week 5: 6/1-6/7
Sumatra
An employee favorite. This coffee is the one single-origin offering that we most often choose to enjoy at home, after we take off the green apron.
Why do we love it so? It has a full, buttery body with virtually no
acidity, so the coffee’s intensity and flavor simply lingers on your
tongue. Make no mistake, this is a slurping coffee. At its
best, there’s no mistaking the concentrated herbal notes and earthy
aroma – telltale marks this beloved brew have left on our shirts and
our hearts.
Week 6: 6/8-6/14
Komodo Dragon Blend®
Week 7: 6/15-6/21
Ethiopia Sidamo™
You can taste those centuries of tradition in a cup of this legendary
coffee. At one time, this was the coffee of Ethiopian royalty, served
in palaces where peacocks strolled the courtyards. And today, beans
from the Sidamo region are highly prized by coffee buyers all over the
world. A properly roasted and prepared cup will feature a distinctive
floral aroma and a hint of lemon in the sip.
Week 8: 6/22-6/29
Sumatra