Monday, April 19, 2010
Featured Coffee : Maya Vinic from Chiapas Mexico
Currently, Grinderman Coffee is Roasting Maya Vinic from Chiapas Mexico
This is a Medium roasted fairtrade, organic, shade grown coffee from the Maya Vinic grower cooperative in Chiapas. This coffee has a bright finish with an earthy, mildly floral flavor.
The Cooperative "Producers’ Union Maya Vinic" is comprised of some 700
coffee farming families located in 36 highland communities in the
municipalities of Chenalhó, Pantelhó and Chalchihuitán, in Chiapas,
Mexico. Inspired by the traditions of their ancestors, Maya Vinic is
organized and operates in keeping with a respect of local culture,
language, reverence for the Mother Earth and traditional forms of
self-government.
Coffee production is nothing new to the farmers of this region.
Recruited since the arrival of the plantations in the early 1900s as
poorly paid hired hands during the harvest, they learned about
production and processing, and the wealth that coffee had made for a
fortunate few. Soon, seeds began trickling back to the Highland
communities of Chiapas.
The Chicago Coffee Confederation recently won TimeOut Chicago's Critic's Choice Award for BEST MICROBREW
so get on board and try some FAIR TRADE : FLAME ROASTED : BICYCLE DELIVERED : FINE COFFEES
email GrindremanCoffee@gmail.com to get on the delivery list and receive details of delivery
Grind On
Monday, April 5, 2010
A quick update:
still roasting coffee
didn't deliver through the winter
but now winter is over
i am formulating a new delivery plan
i will publish more information on this delivery plan soon
the coffee has been available through the winter at the Empty Bottle farmers market
i may try to get around to some other summer markets also
i will publish more information on this summer market plan soon
currently: i am roasting Miya Vinic from Chiapas Mexico
here is a bit about this coffee:
The Cooperative "Producers’ Union Maya Vinic" is comprised of some 700 coffee farming families located in 36 highland communities in the municipalities of Chenalhó, Pantelhó and Chalchihuitán, in Chiapas, Mexico. Inspired by the traditions of their ancestors, Maya Vinic is organized and operates in keeping with a respect of local culture, language, reverence for the Mother Earth and traditional forms of self-government. Coffee production is nothing new to the farmers of this region. Recruited since the arrival of the plantations in the early 1900s as poorly paid hired hands during the harvest, they learned about production and processing, and the wealth that coffee had made for a fortunate few. Soon, seeds began trickling back to the Highland communities of Chiapas.
this is a really fine tasting coffee with a bright and mildly fruity zing at a medium roast. mmmmm....aaaahhhh.
ta ta for now...
follow the grind
coffee is available by emailing Grindermancoffee@gmail.com
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Grinderman Coffee
Just Coffee Co-op's mission is to work with small grower cooperatives in true patnership, using the language and mechanics of market economics to turn the market on its ear. We source the finest green coffee on earth, air-roast if to perfection, and deliver the highest quality beans proving to our customers that better model can also deliver higher quality products. We aim for total transarency, sustainable business practices, and long-term relationships with all of our partners while providing a fun and meaningful cooperative workplace for the people we work with. Oh, and we also seek to change global social and economic inequality by practicing REAL fair trade in direct opposition to gluttonous "free trade" and corporate fair trade. We recongnize fair trade as one strategy for change within a larger movement for global social justice.