Journal
There is a special kind of pride felt when a client asks you to send them all of your most exciting, unique coffees in a single order, especially when they tell you they'll be featuring beautiful natural process Ethiopian coffee on the espresso bar.
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.
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.
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.
David Blanchard's notes from his latest visit to Finca San Jose, Nicaragua, including preliminary cupping notes from fermentation and processing experiments, harvest updates, and projects on the horizon.
