History of Roasting
These are the three roast profiles that we organize our coffee into.
Consisting of only Latin American beans this lighter roast is known for it's acidity and bright, crisp cup.
What is Veranda Blend?
This was the first East Coast roasting plant in the US.
What is York, Pennsylvania?
This happens to the coffee bean between 6 - 9 minutes of roasting.
What is the first pop?
This was the location we expanded with to keep up with demand for four locations in 1980.
This type of sack is used to transport the coffee from it's origin country.
What is burlap or sisal sacks?
In 2008 this smooth and balanced blend was created to bring a coffee that customers would love drinking every day in all of our stores"
What is Pike Place Roast?
This is the number of days that it takes for coffee to be received, roasted and cupped (tasted).
This is the temperature that the rotating drum is heated to when coffee is being roasted.
What is 356 - 464 F?
In 1989 this innovation was introduced to release carbon dioxide from freshly roasted beans without allowing flavor-robbing oxygen to get in.
What is the FlavorLockTM valve?
Seattle, Shanghai, Milan, NY, Tokyo, Chicago are all cities that are home to this type of roastery.
What is Reserve?
Developed in 1990, this blend was a way to showcase exquisite coffees from Africa that was medium-bodied with a crisp,clean acidity and bright, fruity flavors.
What is Gazebo Blend?
Lausanne, Switzerland is home to this important stop on a coffee's journey.
What is the Starbucks Coffee Trading Company SCTC?
This is what happens to the coffee beans between 9 and 13 minutes of roasting.
What is the second pop?
In 2002 Starbucks located its first roasting plant outside of the US in this canal laden city.
What is Amsterdam?
Each container of approved green coffee is loaded ito cases that holds this many pounds of beans.
What is 40 - 45,000 pounds?
First known as "Jake's Blend" this coffee was created for a well-known Seattle restaurant to pair with rich chocolate cake.
What is Caffe Verona?
This is the number of burlap bags per pallet that is unloaded from a container.
What is 20?
At 13 minutes, this is the temperature that coffee can exceed when roasting.
What is 450?
This East Coast coffee company was acquired in 1994 and led to the introduction of four lighter-roasted coffees.
When a coffee roasts longer this happens to the acidity and body.
What is softens and increases?
This blend was created for one of our original customers in 1971 who was a coffee-loving captain of a fishing boat in the far northern waters of the Pacific.
What is Yukon Blend?
This is number of bags that fit into one "lot" of coffee being shipped from Latin America.
What is 275 bags?
This method removes caffeine from green beans by soaking them in warm water to create "flavor-charged water" and then run through an activated charcoal filter to capture the caffeine molecules.
What is the Swiss Water Process?