So what is a Peaberry?

Well you definitely can’t make soup or pie with it but you can brew a delicious cup of coffee! Looking at a typical coffee bean you will see it is flat on one side but round on the other. Normally inside each coffee cherry there are two beans or seeds that face each other on […]
100% Kopi Luwak Green with Authenticity Certificate

Legend has it Kopi Luwak was discovered in Indonesia under Dutch colonial rule. During that time, native farmers and plantation workers were forbidden from harvesting coffee for their own use from the cash-crops and were left to scrounge around the plantations. The civet cat eats only the ripest of coffee cherries and passes the seeds—the […]
Facts About Sualwesi Toraja Coffee – White Eagle

Critical coffee lovers nationwide are investing in a sweet, spicy, and clean coffee made from beans grown in a secluded part of the Indonesian mountains on the tropical island of Sulawesi. The geographic location is so remote that it takes four days of horseback riding on the hard dirt road to get into this region […]
WHY HOME ROASTING PRODUCES THE BEST COFFEE

Why Home Roasting Produces the Best Coffee At Lavanta Coffee Roasters in NJ, we are coffee roasters! In fact, it’s even in our name. But, as coffee lovers, we know just how great a freshly roasted cup of coffee can taste. While we pride ourselves on our roasting capabilities and store our roasted coffee beans […]
WHY BUY FROM FAIR TRADE SUPPLIERS?

Why Buy from Fair Trade Suppliers? Those of us fortunate enough to live in well-off countries enjoy a minimum wage and protection for our employees. Unfortunately, in many of the places where coffee beans grow best, this is not the case, and workers, particularly farmers, are subject to poor working conditions just to receive pennies […]