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Here is what makes us different.

Freshness:

We roast in small batches to ensure everything we send to our customers was recently roasted. We also source our raw materials during the current and optimal season and are sent in GrainPro bags to keep the green beans completely sealed so that no odors, mold, or moisture can seep into the beans on their journey. GrainPro bags have wonderful sustainability benefits which we discuss more on our hermetically sealed bags page.

Quality:

All the coffee we source from our Signature Blends to our Single Origin's has been put through numerous rounds of sampling and cupping to confirm the product's quality. We are focused on quality first, which is why our blends feature coffees that score in the range of 86 – 88pts. That is truthfully unheard of when it comes to blends, as most coffee companies use lower-grade coffees to lower costs but still charge specialty prices. Using high-scoring coffees is where we find the difference between our blends compared to those on the market.

Consistency:

Consistency to us is the culmination of our entire coffee program. We strive to be consistent with our flavor profiles, which stem from stringent sourcing, rigorous quality control, and steady/repeatable roasting. We also consistently aim be open about our goals as an organization and where we plan on taking our coffee program.

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"We wanted to provide an experience that lasts forever between the consumer of specialty coffee and the farmers that produce it. Celebrating the farmer's success through an NFT highlights their work and builds a bridge that doesn't exist with consumables. Once the coffee drinking experience is over, there is little to recognize and appreciate those behind that beautiful cup of coffee consumed." - Dan Hunnewell (Coffee Bros.)
What Your NFT Purchase Gets You?

DIGITAL ARTWORK: Your NFT purchase gets you a limited-edition piece of digital artwork that correlates back to an award-winning lot of coffee from the Cup of Excellence Ethiopia auction that occurs in July.
ROASTED COFFEE: Each piece (50 in total) will also receive a 8oz bag of roasted coffee from the chosen farm.
DONATION: A portion of the proceeds of the NFT will go back to supporting the Cup of Excellence and World Coffee Research.
YOUR FOREVER COFFEE EXPERIENCE: You will now have a collectible that ties your coffee drinking experience back to the producer. The digital artwork will feature the producer, the rank number in the auction, the varietal, and its cupping score!

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The First Coffee in our NFT Series

Learn more: coffeebros.com/nft

We selected the 8th ranked coffee from producer Asefa Dukamo in the 2021 Ethiopia Auction.

About the Producer:

Asefa Dukamo, the first-born son of a coffee-growing family, helped cultivate coffee and other garden crops from a very young age. As a teenager, Asefa began buying coffee cherries from nearby relatives and villagers as well as coffee from his parent's garden and made the arduous journey to distant washing stations. During this time, Asefa set a goal to open washing stations closer to his village to help coffee farmers cut their travel time, decrease transportation costs, and supply coffee cherries when they were at their peak freshness.

His dream became a reality when Asefa was able to open his first washing station in Girja village, less than a mile away from his home, and another in Eltama, roughly 19 miles from Girja, a year later.

About the Coffee:

Cup of Excellence: Rank 8
Cupping Score: 88.57
Varietal: 74158
Process: Washed
Region: Bensa, Sidama Ethiopia
Altitude: 2,200 - 2,300 MASL
Tasting Notes: Apple, Black Cherry, Lemon

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We are excited to announce we will be launching an NFT project alongside the Cup of Excellence for the 2021 Alliance for Coffee Excellence Ethiopia auction.

The *NFT (non-fungible token) will highlight the farmer of one of these special lots and coincide with an expertly roasted batch of the coffee for the first 50 purchasers!

The NFT will be posted for sale on Rarible on 8/5/2021.

Why Did We Choose to Do an NFT?

NFT’s are a terrific way to create an experience that lasts forever which is lacking in coffee, especially when it comes to award-winning auction lots. Once these award-winning coffees are purchased, roasted, and consumed, the memory of that experience and recognition of those that labored over the crop slowly disappears. We want to lock in that experience through an expertly crafted piece of collectible digital artwork that recognizes and highlights the producer.

The NFT project will be 1 of 50 pieces, including the chosen farmers' award-winning coffee in an artisan roasted 8oz bag. The proceeds of the NFT project (above and beyond costs) will go back to Cup of Excellence and the World Coffee Research to help contribute to their mission of empowering and improving the lives of coffee producers.

What Your NFT Purchase Gets You?

DIGITAL ARTWORK: Your NFT purchase gets you a limited-edition piece of digital artwork that correlates back to an award-winning lot of coffee from the Cup of Excellence Ethiopia auction that occurs in July.
ROASTED COFFEE: Each piece (50 in total) will also receive a 8oz bag of roasted coffee from the chosen farm.
DONATION: A portion of the proceeds of the NFT will go back to supporting the Cup of Excellence and World Coffee Research.
YOUR FOREVER COFFEE EXPERIENCE: You will now have a collectible that ties your coffee drinking experience back to the producer. The digital artwork will feature the producer, the rank number in the auction, the varietal, and its cupping score!

#nft #cupofexcellence #dayebensa #asefadukamo #worldcoffeeresearch #coffeebros

All our coffees are sourced in hermetically sealed bags (GrainPro) due to the quality-of-life benefits received by smallholder farmers such as 20 – 70% increase in revenue to common market value, food/crop loss prevention, and environmental impact by farmers not having to use synthetics or harmful chemicals.

GrainPro also impacts coffee quality (flavor/longevity) and is key for the safekeeping of green coffee from farm to roaster.

Why We Choose GrainPro:

Food Loss Prevention:

GrainPro products help reduce food losses and improve food quality by protecting agriculture commodities against insect infestation, mold growth, oxidation, and rancidity.

Increased Market Value for Farmers:

The ability to ensure product quality and sustainability allows farmers to better time market dynamics (supply/demand) and sell their products at optimal times.

Improved Quality and Freshness:

GrainPro bags help lock in freshness during the long trip from the farm to our roaster. The GrainPro bags are an extra layer beneath coffee's traditional burlap sacks which help prevent odors, mold, or moisture buildup. The extra layer means that the coffee we receive will maintain its quality and freshness longer than coffee arriving solely in a burlap sack. While at the roaster, we continue sealing our coffee in GrainPro bags to ensure no additional moisture or unwanted odors affect the product.

To further support the causes we love, we implemented an "add a donation" option at checkout. Please feel free to show your support for these causes and 100% of the proceeds will be transferred to them each quarter. We have already collected 30 donations!

We recently reached out to Grounds for Health and extremely excited to donate to their cause. Keep an eye out for Women Producer-specific offerings where a large portion will go toward supporting Grounds for Health.

About Grounds for Health:

Women are the backbone of the coffee workforce, especially at origin where they provide 70% of the labor planting, picking, sorting, and processing the coffee beans. Cervical cancer is the #1 cause of cancer death in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, where coffee is grown; and, it is entirely preventable with early screening and treatment. Grounds for Health is an international non-profit organization with a mission to prevent cervical cancer in coffee communities. We work within the public health system to develop a sustainable, comprehensive program to keep women healthy and stop deaths from this entirely preventable disease

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