1. Blog – Kaldi's Coffee
Fresh Crop Arrivals
Posted on
July 16, 2015
by
Louis Nahlik
This is one of our favorite times of the year. It seems like we get a new coffee every week. This week
is even more special. We've got two new ones we're happy to share. One is an old favorite, and one
is something new.
2. The Ethiopia Guji Sidamo is a little bit of a different lot for us here at Kaldi's. Ethiopia instituted a
commodity exchange system about 5 years ago as a way to introduce a price structure for producers
for stability and better prices. One thing that was lost in this system is traceability. The coffees are
graded and sorted, but usually we don't know exactly where the coffee was produced. We do know
that this coffee comes from the famed Sidamo region in southern Ethiopia. The region is famous for
producing wonderfully complex and aromatic coffees, with lots of floral and citrus notes.
While we don't have a great story to share about the hardworking producers of this coffee, we felt
the excellent cup quality was more than enough reason to want share this great coffee with you.
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4. Our second featured coffee is Guatemala Santiago de Atitlan. For the past five years, we have been
working with a mill in the Atitlan region and the quality has been top notch. Guatemala has 8
distinct coffee growing regions, and we really like the profile we get from Atitlan. Every year, we're
amazed at the consistency of the coffee. The coffee is grown around the beautiful Lake Atitlan near
the city of Santiago. Small growers pick ripe cherries and deliver the cherry to the mill everyday.
The coffee is then sundried on tarps and stored in parchment until the coffee is ready for export.
We'll have a number of new coffees to share in the coming weeks. We hope you enjoy these while
you can.
Kaldi's Coffee Dinner - June 14, 2015
Posted on
July 09, 2015
by
Louis Nahlik
Recap of our first coffee dinner at our new roastery by Frank McGinty.
All photos by Alex Isbell.
5. As we settle in to our new Roastery, we thought it'd best to properly break it in by doing something
we all thoroughly enjoy... serving some of our favorite people delicious coffee & food. Recently we
hosted another installment of our Kaldi's Coffee Dinners. This was by no means our first one, but the
first of many in our new space at 3983 Gratiot. The evening was filled with sights, sounds, smells,
and numerous smiles, with an incredible list of guests that all have their unique place in the hearts
of our family here at Kaldi's Coffee.
As with dinners past, the menu consisted of food and beverages that incorporated some of our most
seasonal coffees and collaborations with our fondest local vendor partners. Courses such as a
condensed version of a "cupping" experience pairing each of the three stages with a different bite or
scent to enhance the evaluation; along with food ranging from shrimp poached in black tea to pork
cheeks braised in our Coffee Cola collaboration with Fitz's, and everyone's new favorite beverage,
the "Boliviardier" a riff on the Boulevardier using Bolivian cold brew, 2 different Amaros and St.
Louis's own Still 630 Rye (recipe for the Boliviardier is below).
We feel that we have set our own expectations for these dinners very high with this one, but now
with the grand event behind us, we look forward to more dinners, events and guests to come at our
new Roastery.
10. Colombia Carlos Imbachi
Posted on
June 12, 2015
by
Louis Nahlik
We're excited to share our latest offering: Colombia Carlos Imbachi. A chance encounter in Colombia
years ago has led to our newest favorite coffee.
Green coffee buyer Tyler Zimmer writes:
The quality of coffee that comes out of Colombia never ceases to amaze me. Seems like every year I
taste better and better coffee. Our next single origin release, Colombia Carlos Imbachi, is a reminder
of how small of a world that we live in. During my first trip to Colombia in 2009, I was traveling
around Huila with a group of Colombians doing work with small cooperatives in Colombia to help
improve quality. They wanted Kaldi's to check out the quality of small producers in the area. As we
were walking farm to farm, meeting producers and seeing their farms, we came to the end of a dirt
road to another producer by the name of Carlos Imbachi. I immediately recognized his name and
then saw his plaque for 2009 SCAA coffee of the year. That year, his coffee placed first place for best
coffee at the annual SCAA exposition. An incredible accomplishment and a random happenstance
that we were able to meet him and visit his farm that day.
Fast forward to 2015 and we couldn't be more excited to be able to share Carlos's coffee. Near San
Agustin, Colombia, Carlos farms 8 hectares of coffee, mainly Caturra and Yellow Bourbon. He lives
there with his wife Yolanda калъфи and son Didier Alberto.
11. Carlos Imbachi with one of his trees.
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A Film About Coffee
Posted on
May 28, 2015
by
Louis Nahlik
12. From A Film About Coffee's website:
"A Film About Coffee follows the production of coffee from farms in Honduras and harvests in
Rwanda to its global consumption. Listening to farmers, buyers, roasters and baristas about the
crop's economic and environmental implications both locally and abroad, the narrative travels to
coffee shops in Tokyo, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and New York, with stops in between.
Dropping in on artisanal cafes to investigate how each prepares its own unique cup, the film opens a
window into the little-understood world of specialty coffee."
We are so excited to help host калъфи the film's St. Louis premiere on June 18, 2015 at the
Tivoli Theatre in the Delmar Loop in St. Louis.
All of the sponsors (list below) will be serving coffee in the lobby starting at 6:30pm and the film will
start at 7:00pm.
Tickets are available here and include coffee tasting, film screening, and entrance to the afterparty.
The afterparty will be at Kaldi's Coffee Roasting Co. featuring Strange Donuts, Pi Pizza, 4 Hands
Brewery, and Companion Bakery.
Sponsors for the film are:
Arthouse Coffee
Blueprint Coffee
Chauvin Coffee
Comet Coffee
Goshen Coffee Company
Kuva Coffee Roasters
Mudhouse
Northwest Coffee
Park Avenue Coffee
Rise
Stringbean Coffee Co.
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Two New Coffees
Posted on
May 27, 2015
13. by
Louis Nahlik
We're excited to start summer off with two new coffees, one from Africa and one from South
America.
Bolivia Francisco Hilari is an organic coffee from a small village called Siete Estrellas, located in the
Carnavi region. Francisco and his wife, Maria, have been growing coffee on this small farm for 25
years. They process their coffee with a small wet mill on site, ferment, and sun-dry it on raised beds.
This is the first Bolivian coffee we've bought in a few years and couldn't be more pleased to be
working directly with dedicated small producers like Francisco and Maria.
14. The coffee from Africa, Rwanda Karenge, is from a private washing station in the subdistrict of
Karenge, in the Eastern Province of Rwanda. The mill where this coffee is processed is owned by
Tom Bagaza, who saw the potential for quality coffee in the region, and bought the coffee cherries
directly from small farmers in this zone. The Karenge station is traditional: a small 1-disc pulper
(as they use in Kenya), traditional fermentation, a long concrete washing channel to clean the coffee,
and raised bed drying.
We hope you enjoy these coffee as much as we do. Let us know what you think on Twitter, Facebook,
and Instagram.
Coffee Sleeve Recall (Sleeves Used Before April 2015)
Posted on
May 19, 2015
by
Louis Nahlik
In late March we were notified of a possible fire hazard with our black flood-coated coffee sleeves.
We made the decision to remove all of the potentially affected sleeves immediately. All the
sleeves were removed within 24hrs of notice. For several weeks we had blank craft color sleeves in
the cafes until we were able to determine a solution with the coffee sleeve manufacture. Since early
April, we have been using the new black flood-coated sleeves. For the past 2 months, all of the
sleeves distributed are new and unaffected. The sleeves that were affected by this recall should have
been removed from circulation several months ago, but if you have an old sleeve in your possession
and aren't sure when you received it, please dispose of it. To be clear: the affected sleeves were only
sold in Kaldi's company-owned cafes (please see the attached picture) and were removed from the
stores back in April.
If you have any further question please contact the Roastery at 314-727-9991 or e-mail us at
roastmaster@kaldiscoffee.com
The CPSC recall report can be found at:
http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2015/Kaldis-Coffee-Roasting-Recalls-Cup-Sleeves/
15. We're Moving!
Posted on
April 10, 2015
by
Louis Nahlik
In case you haven't heard the news. We're moving our Roasting Co.
Not too far though, just around the corner. Literally.
16. We will be closed Thursday and Friday, April 16 & 17. And will open again at our new address on
Monday, April 20.
This shouldn't affect much. Some orders may get delayed from Friday until Monday. Any web order
placed on Thursday or Friday will ship out on Monday or Tuesday. And we will be canceling our next
few weekly cuppings at the roasting co. until we're settled. But otherwise it will be business as
usual. As with any moving, there might be some kinks, so bear with us. But when we're all moved in
and ready, we can't wait to show off our new space.
Our new address is:
3983 Gratiot
St. Louis, MO 63110
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