25 COFFEE TASTER BOX/ADVENT CALENDAR
$140.00
NOTE: You must order advent calendars individually. Due to their bulk, we cannot offer flat rate shipping on orders for multiple boxes or orders for boxes that include other coffee items or merchandise. Orders that do include other items will be subject to an additional $12 shipping charge. Orders of multiple calendars will incur a shipping charge of $12 per calendar.
Boxes can also be pickup at our Walton St roastery location starting (probably) on Friday, Nov 15.
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There are lots of advent packages out there. Some are pretty cool, and some…well, not so much. A few years ago a friend got me a beer advent box from the ToOl brewery in Denmark. It had some weird stuff in it—-one of them was a banana sour, and another of the beers contained tomato—-along with lots of less challenging but tasty offerings. The gist of it was that I tried a bunch of beers I probably wouldn’t have chosen to purchase myself, and sometimes ended up being pleasantly surprised. I may even still have a couple of stouts I didn’t get to at the back of my pantry. It was a lot of beer!
Our goal with this calendar is multi-fold, but let me start by saying that the box is non-denominational, or not religious in nature, per se. There’s nothing contained within it having to do with Christmas. It can be treated simply as a box of 25 different coffees, allowing for sampling back to back to back, and would make a pretty sweet gift for any coffee lover on any holiday shopping list. The custom-printed box is pretty sharp.
There’s enough in each bag (approximately 2 oz/56 g) for three mug-sized pourovers, or maybe half a pot (25-30 oz) of brewed coffee, depending on your usual brewing recipe. You’ll probably see differences between (and even within) origins that you may not have been aware of before. You’ll find new favorites, and (if we are honest) others that are either too fruity, too acidic, too weird, underwhelming or simply not your cuppa. The coffees are identified by a number instead of a label as well, so if you really want to geek out and play “guess the origin,” or taste them with fewer preconceived assumptions, you have the opportunity to do that, too. You’ll learn quite a bit about your own preferences, and you’ll learn about the coffees themselves. Each sample will correspond to a master list containing a description of what it is, where it comes from, and how found its way to us—-and you.
It’s this latter component of the box that we are particularly excited to share with you all. On the Christian calendar (and in our culture more generally, as you know), Christmas and “the holidays” are a time of celebration and feasting. But advent itself—-the weeks leading up to this time of celebration—-is a period of thinking and waiting. It’s a time of anticipation of, and preparation for, redemption. Coffee itself has an extremely problematic history, and its present is not much of an improvement. Most coffee producers live in poverty, and the global markets we all depend upon largely ensure that things stay this way. While our own coffee purchasing relationships attempt to subvert and correct the most egregious discrepancies in power and capital, coffee production and consumption is still largely a one-way street: poor folks grow it and pick it, and we enjoy it. We hope that tasting the beautiful beverages coffee farmers and pickers prepare for us might assist in bringing about your own “advent” preparation: an acknowledgement that many things are not as they should be, and a re-commitment to finding ways to making them so. To be able to do so through delicious coffee is a privilege indeed.
We are roasting and packing these during the next few weeks, and hope to have most of them out the door by Friday, November 15. (We’re roasting and assembling them earlier this year, as we’ve run into some serious problems with the USPS in the past—-like, three week delivery times, for a handful of them!. This year, many of them will be shipping them either by UPS or FedEx Orders for calendars combined with other coffees will be subject to an additional $12 shipping charge. Quantities are limited, and we will remove the listing as soon as they have sold out.We have (essentially) sold out every year, with a few going to our retail shops at the beginning of December, so place your order today.
Cheers!
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
NOTE: You must order advent calendars individually. Due to their bulk, we cannot offer flat rate shipping on orders for multiple boxes or orders for boxes that include other coffee items or merchandise. Orders that do include other items will be subject to an additional $12 shipping charge. Orders of multiple calendars will incur a shipping charge of $12 per calendar.
Boxes can also be pickup at our Walton St roastery location starting (probably) on Friday, Nov 15.
——
There are lots of advent packages out there. Some are pretty cool, and some…well, not so much. A few years ago a friend got me a beer advent box from the ToOl brewery in Denmark. It had some weird stuff in it—-one of them was a banana sour, and another of the beers contained tomato—-along with lots of less challenging but tasty offerings. The gist of it was that I tried a bunch of beers I probably wouldn’t have chosen to purchase myself, and sometimes ended up being pleasantly surprised. I may even still have a couple of stouts I didn’t get to at the back of my pantry. It was a lot of beer!
Our goal with this calendar is multi-fold, but let me start by saying that the box is non-denominational, or not religious in nature, per se. There’s nothing contained within it having to do with Christmas. It can be treated simply as a box of 25 different coffees, allowing for sampling back to back to back, and would make a pretty sweet gift for any coffee lover on any holiday shopping list. The custom-printed box is pretty sharp.
There’s enough in each bag (approximately 2 oz/56 g) for three mug-sized pourovers, or maybe half a pot (25-30 oz) of brewed coffee, depending on your usual brewing recipe. You’ll probably see differences between (and even within) origins that you may not have been aware of before. You’ll find new favorites, and (if we are honest) others that are either too fruity, too acidic, too weird, underwhelming or simply not your cuppa. The coffees are identified by a number instead of a label as well, so if you really want to geek out and play “guess the origin,” or taste them with fewer preconceived assumptions, you have the opportunity to do that, too. You’ll learn quite a bit about your own preferences, and you’ll learn about the coffees themselves. Each sample will correspond to a master list containing a description of what it is, where it comes from, and how found its way to us—-and you.
It’s this latter component of the box that we are particularly excited to share with you all. On the Christian calendar (and in our culture more generally, as you know), Christmas and “the holidays” are a time of celebration and feasting. But advent itself—-the weeks leading up to this time of celebration—-is a period of thinking and waiting. It’s a time of anticipation of, and preparation for, redemption. Coffee itself has an extremely problematic history, and its present is not much of an improvement. Most coffee producers live in poverty, and the global markets we all depend upon largely ensure that things stay this way. While our own coffee purchasing relationships attempt to subvert and correct the most egregious discrepancies in power and capital, coffee production and consumption is still largely a one-way street: poor folks grow it and pick it, and we enjoy it. We hope that tasting the beautiful beverages coffee farmers and pickers prepare for us might assist in bringing about your own “advent” preparation: an acknowledgement that many things are not as they should be, and a re-commitment to finding ways to making them so. To be able to do so through delicious coffee is a privilege indeed.
We are roasting and packing these during the next few weeks, and hope to have most of them out the door by Friday, November 15. (We’re roasting and assembling them earlier this year, as we’ve run into some serious problems with the USPS in the past—-like, three week delivery times, for a handful of them!. This year, many of them will be shipping them either by UPS or FedEx Orders for calendars combined with other coffees will be subject to an additional $12 shipping charge. Quantities are limited, and we will remove the listing as soon as they have sold out.We have (essentially) sold out every year, with a few going to our retail shops at the beginning of December, so place your order today.
Cheers!