Author: The Kaffeeklatsch

We hope you are having a pleasant start to 2023 and thank you again for all the support and love last year!

This year we’ll be adding some evening hours. Starting Friday January 27th, our new Friday hours are 9am to 7pm! We hope this will give some flexibility to those of you that can’t make it during our daytime hours. We’ll have both caffeinated and decaffeinated pots brewed for our $3 cups of drip coffee.

On a different note, our shipping costs have increased some due to changes the postal service has made recently. Please know we are currently working to lower these costs as quickly as possible. If you ever have any questions about shipping costs, please feel free to call or email!

Now, on a good note again, we have been sampling several coffees lately and will have some great new arrivals coming in shortly!

The Kaffeeklatsch Crew wishes you all a very Merry New Year for 2023! We are so grateful for your patronage!

We are currently closed for our Winter Break and will resume regular business hours and shipping on Thursday January 5th, 2023. Orders placed between 12/23/22 and 01/04/23 will ship when we reopen.

Whether you’re prepared or not the holiday season is upon us. The roaster had it’s Fall deep cleaning in October and we are ready to roast all your holiday needs!

Gift Ideas

We have plenty of options for the coffee and tea lovers (or novices…or you) in your life. Our selections of coffee and tea cover many different taste profiles. If you need help with your picks, we are happy to assist or answer any questions!

Our popular seasonal blends are available. The Holiday Blend is a crowd pleaser with it’s nicely balanced notes and smooth body. For the flavored coffee lovers, Yuletide Cheer is the way to go with its festive blend of Bavarian Chocolate, Frangelico & Creme, and Irish Cream.

We have some nice Special Offers available as well. The Costa Rica Hacienda La Florida Natural Gesha is a gem of a coffee with such a unique flavor profile. The Holidays Fruit Tea is a pleasant herbal blend that really gives you that winter warmth feeling.

If you are looking to get a variety or just not quite sure what your gift receiver likes, we have sampler options for both coffee and tea. Each sampler comes with 3-4 small quantity bags for a little taste of multiple coffees or teas. Click the “Sample Options” tab to see the available samplers (please note these are preset with no substitutions).

Don’t forget we also have lots of options for brewing and drinking equipment, chocolate bars and candies, and ‘Kaffeeklatsch’ branded swag. Click the “Accessories” tab to see all of our non-drinkable products.

New Gift Cards

We have started using new gift cards recently. The new plastic gift cards have a card number so you can use them more easily at checkout! Just look for the “Using a Gift Card” box on the checkout page and fill in the details. Checking your balance is easy too, just scan the QR code on the back of your card. We have specified amounts available to purchase online but if you’d like a different monetary value just call us at the store. We will continue to honor our old style gift cards.

A Few Changes Coming Soon

We have a couple new things in the works that will be implemented over the next few months.

• The exact date is not set yet but starting mid/end of January we will be extending our store hours on Friday evenings until 7pm! The rest of our store hours will remain as are. Look for updates on this change at the beginning of 2023.
• Our checkout experience will be changing just a bit. Shipping options and costs be will shown at checkout for more clarity on the cost of your order at time of checkout. Again the date for this change is not set yet but we will give an update as soon as it goes live.

Our Holiday Hours

• The week of Thanksgiving the store will be closed on Thursday 11/24 and Friday 11/25. We’ll have regular business hours the other days that week.
• On Christmas Eve the store will be open 8:30am to 12:30pm. As is tradition for The Kaffeeklatsch we’ll have free cups of coffee!
• For our Winter Break the store will be closed Sunday 12/25 through Wednesday 01/04/2023. We’ll resume regular business hours on Thursday 01/05/2023.

We so appreciate all of our patrons and partners, old and new alike, and wish you all a most pleasant and safe holiday season! -The Kaffeeklatsch Crew, Joanna, Katie, Amanda, Mary, Paron, Graham, Grant & Kathryn

We are continuing to get some of our old favorites back in the store this summer. Both Tanzania Peaberry and Costa Rica La Minita are back on the menu now! We found these crops to be so nicely balanced with a mix of pleasant sweet and bright flavor notes.

Our Tanzania Ruvuma Peaberry comes out of one of the southern-most regions of the country, bordering Mozambique to the south and the African Great Lake Nyasa to the west. A collaboration between two companies, Soochak Bush and Tropex, acts as a type of cooperative for small farms in the Mbinga district. Having this type of group makes sure small farm-holders can get their crops to the international market and receive fair pay. This crop is smooth and rich, great medium body, with notes of dark chocolate, chocolate chess pie, orange, and grapefruit. On offer for $18.95 per pound.

We know so many of you will be happy to see Costa Rica Hacienda La Minita back on offer! Hacienda La Minita continues to be a pinnacle of meticulous coffee growing and processing. The high altitudes, location of the farm and how the land is worked all come together to create an excellent micro-climate for La Minita’s coffee trees. Elegant, balanced, and refined, this is a lovely crop and on offer for $20.95 per pound.

New T-shirts are in store now as well! It’s a soft and comfy fabric with our logo in color. Sizes small to extra large are available for $20.

Some great new teas are in stock, along with some “old friends” in our coffee offerings too!

We have three new teas, Brazilian Lemonade, Passionfruit & Peach, and Yangtze Green Maofeng, that are prefect for the summertime and these hot temps.

The Brazilian Lemonade has become an immediate favorite here at the shop! Lemonade in Brazil is typically made with fresh limes, so lime is the spotlight of this tea, with other fruit bits added to mellow and sweeten the blend. It’s got a wonderfully creamy body and will remind you of key lime pie. Caffeine free and delicious hot or iced!

The Passionfruit & Peach Fruit Tea is also naturally caffeine free and makes a great cup hot or iced. This straight fruit blend (no floral or herbal ingredients) is so refreshing and has a nice balance of juiciness and sweetness.

If you’d prefer something with caffeine try the Yangtze Green Maofeng. This green tea is light and sweet with notes of sweet peas, lemon, and honey. Using a lower brewing temperature (we recommend 160^oF to 170^oF) will bring out the best flavor from a green tea and help avoid bitterness and astringency.

Now to the “old friends”, we are very pleased to have both Honduras Liquidambar Honey and Costa Rica Dota Peaberry back on our offerings list!

Yet again, our Honduras sample from Finca Liquidambar was just delicious! We have bought from this farm the last few seasons and owner/operator Roberto Rene Gonzalez does an impeccable job with quality and consistency of his coffee. This years crop is focused and balanced, has a creamy medium body, and flavor notes of chocolate, cocoa, caramel, cherry, and apple, Certified Organic and Certified Fair Trade.

We were very pleased with the Costa Rica Dota Peaberry from CoopeDota as well. Although the co-op has grown to having hundreds of producer-members, quality coffee and commitment to the environment are always top goals, along with farming and social programs to better the lives of all producers in the group. This year’s crop is sweet and lush, with a nice chocolate aroma, smooth, medium body, nuances of milk and dark chocolate as well as hints of tart plum and lemon candy.

Such good drinks to be had so try something new or get back to an old favorite!