Eric Reed is a photographer who draws inspiration from his immense life experience and travels as well as his love of fly-fishing. He honed is skills behind the camera while working for New England School for Photography and Lorenz Photography. While an avid traveler...
If you’ve been looking for some interesting ways to spice up your tea read on! By adding citrus or herbs, or even flowers, you can break out of the same-old-tea-rut and infuse your mug with something adventurous! Black Tea: Add Citrus! Adding citrus slices like orange...
This spring we shared Norma’s Story – of how a life tragedy led to the beginning of a dream to produce the best coffee. Now, we finally have it in house! This is a delicious coffee with a lot of complex flavor. You get tangerine, melon and honey...
After passing 22 sections of the rigorous three-day Q Grader exam, on October 20, 2013 Emeran Langmaid became one of roughly 1,000 coffee specialists in the world. To put this in perspective, there are more billionaires on the 2013 Forbes Billionaires list (1,426)...
There has been much discussion about the potential hydrating effects of coffee due to a popular article published by NPR in January of this year. The news is encouraging for coffee aficionados worldwide – coffee may not be as dehydrating as originally thought. In...
As is common in Central America, Norma married very young. While originally from Honduras, Norma’s husband found work in Guatemala and the couple moved. After having a daughter in their new home, Norma’s husband again moved for work, this time back to Honduras,...
One of our favorite gourmet tea blends, Evening in Missoula, is a tisane, or blended herbal tea that is comprised of 17 flavorful and healing botanical elements which, when blended by a talented craftsman, produce a deliciously satisfying and transformative cup of...
A report from Emeran in the field on Sunday, February 9. Beneficio Santa Rosa was started in the early 2000s by a producer who wanted to start milling his own coffee. It grew from there and more farmers were using his mill. In 2004 a handful of other people invested...
Great news, A&E coffee fans, there’s a new coffee at the roastery, from the Poabs Estate in India, specifically, from the Nelliyampathy Hills, in Chittur Taluk, in the Palakkad District. Not familiar with Indian geography? Nelliyampathy is a town in India, located...
The Q Grader course was six days long. I cupped at least 240 cups of coffee throughout the week. The course tests your sensory skills, primarily olfactory and taste. One of the hardest tests was identifying sweet, sour, salty, the combination of tastes, and the...
Yesterday on Facebook we posted a link to a new study about the benefits of coffee, relating to prostate cancer – to be specific, the study demonstrated that four cups or more of coffee per day “may keep prostate cancer recurrence and progression away”. It’s just...
There are a lot of recipes that include coffee as an ingredient, but one of the simplest is also one of the most intriguing: Coffee jello. If you are not a jello fan, this one probably isn’t for you, but for the rest of us, it can be a fun treat, with lots of...
