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MadCap Shipment for July

by Kirby on July 20, 2010

MadCap sent out an exciting Brasil this month. Here are some details…

Chapadão de Ferro, Brasil

Region: Patrocinio, Minas Gerais

Producer: Rualdo DelaRisse

Processing Method: Natural Processed

Altitude: 1,250 meters

Varietals: Mundo Novo and Caturra

Harvested July-September 2009

Chapadão de Ferro translates to “plateau of iron” as the farm is located in the center of an extinct volcano providing soil very rich in iron. Ruvaldo farms with the help of his wife and children. The rich soil gives lots of clarity to the cup as you can also expect a smooth (but large body), clean flavor, with black cherry on the finish.

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Barefoot Coffee Roasters announces June shipment

by Kirby on June 8, 2010

I just got a note from Barefoot and they will be sending our customers a relationship coffee from Finca Vista Hermosa this month! Here are some details on the coffee:

Producer: Edwin Martinez

Varietals: Bourbon

Altitude: 1,650 Meters

Harvest: May 2009

Region: Huehuetenago

Cupping Notes:
Supremely balanced and sexily smooth. A nice spiciness melts into sweet dry chocolate with really pleasant mouthfeel. Hints of dried peaches and papaya come alive in the middle. Sweet, delicate and big and explosive at once. A taste of pistachio and candy corn with a bit of punch-drunk love.

Finca Vista Hermosa, Farm of the Beautiful View, is the three-generation legacy of coffee lovers who have poured their hearts into the rich land of Guatemala. Edwin Martinez practices sustainable farming and produces some of the best coffee in Guatemala. Barefoot Coffee has been partnered with Edwin for five years of great coffee. Vista Hermosa is our favorite lot every year and Barefoot Coffee and Coffee Collective in Denmark share this whole lot.

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Take our Direct Trade survey!

June 7, 2010

When we started the The Direct Trade Coffee Club, we found a wide range of different definitions for Direct Trade existed in the marketplace. We believe those different definitions are confusing consumers so we created a survey to collect thoughts on what direct trade is and what impact it has on the coffee industry. The [...]

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Intelligentsia announces May shipment for DTCC members

May 7, 2010

Intelligentsia will ship their single origin El Machete from Finca Santa Teresa in Panama to Direct Trade Coffee Club members for the May shipment. The El Machete is produced by an innovative farmer named Juan Pablo Berard. His dedication to coffee quality and social and environmental sustainability are obvious in all endeavors at the farm, [...]

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Madcap releases April shipment to coffee club members

April 12, 2010

The Direct Trade Coffee Club shipment for April 2010 will be from Madcap. They are shipping a Catuai, Pache, Arabigo varietal from Ellen Prentice and the Finca de Dios in the Fraijanes region of Guatemala. The coffee comes from Ellen Prentice Finca de Dios is at an altitude of 1,700 meters above sea level and [...]

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Congratulations to Intelligentsia and MadCap Baristas

March 26, 2010

Direct Trade Coffee Club Roasters, Intelligentsia Coffee and MadCap Coffee both had successful showings at country’s two most competitive regional barista competitions. In the Western Regional Barista Competition on February 26th-28th, Intelligentsia LA barista’s Ryan Wilbur took 2nd place while Devin Pedde placed 5th. Two weeks later on March 12th-14th Intelligentsia Chicago and MadCap Coffee [...]

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Barefoot Coffee to send Daterra Redcab to DTCC members in March

March 12, 2010

We're happy to announce that Barefoot Coffee will send their Daterra Redcab to the DTCC members for the March 2010 shipment. Redcab is one of the Relationship Coffees offered by Barefoot. This is a special single farm custom blend offered by Barefoot. Cupping notes: Beguiling fruit sweetness opens for thick and sticky lava cake with [...]

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Sarah Kluth talks about Burundi Coffee

February 17, 2010

Anyone that followed the link to Sarah Kluths tasting notes within our recent post about Intelligentsia coffee announcing their shipment of Ikirezi, Burundi coffee for the club shipment in February, will understand Sarah’s passion and commitment to Direct Trade. What you may not get is “the rest of the story”, so we asked Sarah what [...]

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Barefoot Coffee Roasters joins the DTCC

February 16, 2010

Today we are proud to announce that Barefoot Coffee Roasters has joined the Direct Trade Coffee Club as a roaster. They will help us spread the word about Direct Trade and supply our members with the finest Direct Trade coffees. Barefoot will be the roaster of the month for March. In the upcoming week we [...]

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DTCC gets a great write up in Rapid Growth!

February 13, 2010

Thanks to Deborah Johnson Wood for taking the time to write about the coffee business in Western Michigan and the Direct Trade Coffee Club. The Direct Trade Coffee Club is a collection of roasters and we believe it’s important to clear up one point made in the article regarding the Direct Trade model. The notion [...]

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