Journal
BREWING AT HOME with Jake Hansen
See what Roaster, Jake Hansen is brewing at home.
Recipes, favorite coffees, and tips for brewing better coffee.
Staff Feature: Drew Miller
Drew Miller has been with us since 2013. Read more about his time with Blanchard's Coffee and check out his Spotify playlist.
Partner Feature: BREW Coffee Bar
BREW has been bringing great coffee to the Raleigh area since 2014. Learn more about their outlook on coffee and community.
Partner Feature: Golf Park Coffee
Golf Park Coffee brings coffee craft to Lynchburg, Virginia.
Partner Feature: Triple Stamp Press
Triple Stamp Press is a eco-friendly custom screen printing shop in Richmond, Virginia, and we're proud to work with them, exclusively, for our tee-shirts, totes, and other screen printing projects.
Staff Feature: Jake Hansen
Jake Hansen joined the Blanchard’s Coffee Roasting Co. team in early 2015. He came to us with a barista background an interest in growing in the specialty coffee industry. He also had a lot of tattoos, so we knew he was legit.
Farm Feature: El Ocaso
We began our relationship with Finca El Ocaso in early 2015. A young Colombian-American entrepreneur named Daniel Velasquez had recently started an import/export company called Campesino Specialty Coffee, and he was approaching roasters throughout the mid-Atlantic to pitch the single coffee in his portfolio: the Finca El Ocaso Classico — a blended harvest from the Salento, Colombia farm.
Farmer Feature: Noralba Velandia, Finca El Nogal
Finca El Nogal owner, Noralba Velandia and her three children personally see to every aspect of El Nogal’s production, from cultivation, to harvest, to processing, and finished product.
