Blendo Stupendo is carefully crafted to balance smooth taste and premium drinkability. This month the Stupendo is primarily Colombian coffee, from Santa Ines. But just this week we added Brazil coffee to it! Brazil is classic Italian coffee: peanut brittle, a touch of black cherry, and toffee sweetness all over the place. We're blending it 2:3 with the Colombia now just because we're so glad to have some Brazil again. As we add coffees later we may reduce that percentage a little BUT DON'T WORRY! We'll tell you when we do. Medium roasted for every preparation.

Despite what Aric and Ray say, we will NOT be serving Java next. No!! It's Kenya now, boys, Kenya! It makes perfect sense: we just served two Ethiopian coffees. Ethiopia is in Africa. Kenya is ALSO in Africa. Case closed! African coffee is typically very fruity and Kenya is perhaps the best example: this one tastes like blackberries, currants, and crazy vanilla. Currant and blackberry are very common flavors in Kenyan coffee and yet another reason we should all be glad to have Kenyan coffee this week and not Java coffee (that's next week). Medium roasted for every preparation.

We didn't know how good decaf can be until we started roasting. Turns out if you send the best coffee of a crop to be decaffinated, you get the best decaf coffee back! Sure it's more expensive than before it was decaffinated, but that's worth it for a good cup. As you'd expect of a top Guatamalan farm, the Maravilla is amazing: chocolate covered pinot noir raisins tell the tale. Yup, we just said pinot noir raisins.

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If you've known us for any length of time, it may come as no surprise that we collaborated with our friend Crispin Argento of PINO, who designed a beautiful felted Italian wool men's tie for us. The closure is fully seamed, which significantly increases durability, and the grosgrain trim found at the neck prevents the rear blade from stretching and helps align the tie for a perfect length and knot every time. Did we mention they're Italian wool and made exclusively for Sterling by hand in Portland? Yeah.