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Years ago now, I started my travels to coffee producing countries in Costa Rica. Costa Rica since that moment has held a distinctive place in my heart. Since my first encounter with Costa Rican coffee, production, absolutely everything in the Costa Rican coffee system has changed. The micro mill revolution has not only been born but blossomed into something of a world standard for independent transparent entrepreneurship on the producer level.    Our longest standing Direct Trade coffee, Finca La Mirella has reached a level of relationship that has moved way past business. Visiting with Chacon-Salas family for the fourth...

We have an exciting change to our coffee brewing program at Cherry Street. We are retiring our Clover brewer and shifting to manual pour-over brewing. We have long been fans of pour-over coffee and have offered it in addition to Clover brewed coffee for the past two years. The time has come to make the full switch. We will still grind and brew every cup of coffee fresh as we have since we opened the doors of our Cherry Street Cafe in 2007. The pour-over brewing method we have selected is the same method that we used to claim the...