This tasty specimen is a sencha green tea blended with pieces of mango for a delightful aroma and taste. Sencha is a specific type of Japanese green tea, made without grinding the tea leaves – this distinguishes it from Macha, which is made from powdered tea leaves....
A widely reported study emerged this week, that drinking coffee can reduce your risk of dying from oral cancer. Not tea…not decaffeinated coffee, but good old-fashioned caffeinated coffee. According to the New York Times Well blog (and a variety of other news...
Our Sumatra Mandheling IKA is an organic, shade-grown bean of the Mandheling Typica variety. Think deep, rich cocoa aroma with spicy hints; heavy body and rich flavor with a long, dry finish. It has a resonant, spicy, earthy, syrupy taste, and a weighty body in the...
Our Ethiopian Natural Sidamo is a unique offering with a tart cherry/spicy vanilla aroma, light body and bright yet short finish that rings with hints of fruit. The taste is spicy a mixture of mild berry and subtle citrus. It is organic, Fair Trade and shade grown. It...
Peaberries are a happy accident of nature. They form when a coffee bean fails to form in the customary way. Ordinarily, the coffee cherry contains two familiar halves, each of which is flat on one side. In the case of a peaberry, the second half never formed, so one...
Those of you who are fans of Hawaiian coffee may have noticed that we have been carrying Maui coffee recently. That’s because the borer beetle issue in Hawaii is isolated to the big island. The borer beetles have been plaguing Kona farms on the island of Hawaii since...
Chai is a mixed-spice tea, a strong authentic blend of Indian black tea and spices offering a distinct spicy/citric aroma. Ours is a traditional family recipe from an Indian tea grower. This authentic blend is stronger and more pungent than American chais, and...
Generally, our goal here at A & E Roastery is to include you in our love affair with coffee. We want you to join us on a journey into the art of coffee, the craft of coffee…the aromas, the flavors, the nuances of fairly grown and traded coffees. We offer real...
Take a look at this amazing “coffee art” website. Angel and Andrew Saur are the fine artists behind this gem. The Saurs literally paint with coffee. Unusually, they actually work as a team, conceptualizing and executing the pieces as a pair. The results are works that...
Our love of coffee means we’re even more delighted when we discover a link between coffee and health. Here’s a bit of good news from the AARP website that shines a hopeful light in the fight against basal cell carcinoma: skin cancer’s most common form. According to...
It’s summer here in New England and we are rolling our our 100% crushed fruit smoothies. Over the years, I have tried many smoothie mixes and, in my opinion, none have come close to Dr. Smoothie, a provider of 100% whole fruit smoothie concentrates. Many other...
Espresso – Beans we Love; Roast Level we Don’t I was talking about roasting recently and someone asked about ‘espresso roast.’ While other shops may use this as a roast level, we do not. Technically, espresso roast is a very dark roast but, ironically, it...