Buna Bean Coffee - Ennis, TX

October 25, 2007 · Filed Under Blends, Coffee, Roasters, Texas Roasters · 2 Comments 

Buna Bean Coffee
http://www.bunabean.com/

I received an email yesterday from a gentleman named Jess from Ennis, TX.  He wanted to inform the community of the birth of a new roasting outfit in TX!

Mr. Haupt wrote,

My name is Jess Haupt and I am starting a coffee roasting company in Ennis, Texas called Buna Bean Coffee.  We should be roasting within a month.

We will be offering custom blends for indivduals in 1# bags.  You will be able to order on line.  The customer will be able to choose from 4 single country origins to make their own blend.

We will also be offering 9 different single country origin coffees.

I am raosting on a Diedrich IR 12.

I am looking forward to roasting the best beans and (to) educate my community on specialty coffee.

This is not the first roasting outfit to offer custom blending, and not the first in Texas, but it’s very cool to see it so blatantly put forward as an available product!

I’d like to wish Jess all the best in his entrance into the coffee industry, and I’m looking forward to seeing what Buna Bean has to offer!

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Fall, Coffee, and Blends

October 22, 2007 · Filed Under Blends, Coffee, Roasters, Seasonal, Texas Roasters · Comment 

While I am not generally such a fan of blends, sometimes a skilled blender can throw together a combination of coffees that direct the senses to relish in the cooler weather, diminishing daylight, and the dying of leaves.

 How common are seasonal blends?  

 I can think, off the top of my head, of quite a few roasters who will offer flavored coffee as a “holiday blend”.. although the coffee itself is not a blend.  In my mind, this is the wrong approach.  We want to taste the coffee, not the flavoring.  If we wanted brownie flavored liquid, we’d order a hot chocolate, or just stay at home and whip up some Swiss Miss.

Every year, Starbucks has a Christmas blend.  They start it a little early (November) and let it run until usually around mid January.

My question, dear readers, is how many of you like the idea of a seasonal blend?

Are there any TX roasters putting out any seasonal blends worth noting?

I’m genuinely curious to know.  Even as someone who generally doesn’t like the idea of the blending of individual coffees, I quite like the idea of an annual blend to commemorate the season.  If nothing else, it’s something to look forward to every year to keep customers coming back out of curiosity, if not anticipation.

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