Coffee Roasting Information

Did you know the following about Coffee Roasting and the type of Roast you decide on? ( The last one surprises most people) A) The darker the bean bean is roasted, the more it loses the flavors of its origin. At the same time it also starts to absorb the taste of the...

Everglades House Blend Roast

Roasted a fresh batch of our Everglades House Blend today. It was a Full City roast and we will be cupping it tomorrow and if it cups as well as we think it will, then we will package it up . Our Everglades house blend is a combination of Brazilian, Colombian and...

Calusa Coffee Roasters Coffee

Calusa Coffee Roasters is now up and running and shipping its first roast of Colombian Supremo and Brazilian Santos Single Origin Coffees. The Diedrich roasted the coffee to perfection, with of course, just a little help from our master roaster and is fantastic and...

What is Fair Trade Coffee?

We are often asked this question and therefore I thought in this blog post I would give just a very brief description. Although there are a wide variety of opinions on just exactly is Fair Trade because their is not a universally accepted definition, but basically...

Coffee Storage

Here are some elements to avoid when storing your coffee in order to make it stay fresh longer. Although at Calusa we recommend that you only by enough coffee in small amounts in order for you too always have fresh roasted coffee available. We also recommend that you...

Coffee is technically a fruit

It grows on trees, originally appearing as white blossoms and quickly developing into round ‘cherries’. Inside the cherries are twin coffee beans that coffee growers harvest. Occasionally there is only a single bean inside: these are called peaberries and are prized...