😎 Hello 2023 Ethereal Summer Blend!

Summer is here, and we’re excited to welcome it with our 2023 edition of Ethereal Summer Blend! - sweet, smooth, refreshing - it’s the perfect blend to enjoy during the hot summer months - both as an energizing cup in the morning, and later in the day as a refreshing iced or cold brew. We’ll re-visit our favorite iced and cold brew recipes and tricks on our “Monday Bit” this Summer (we post new “bits” every Monday on our Instagram @ethosroasters, and you can always watch past “bits” by visiting the Monday Bit highlights in our profile).

This year’s Ethereal features both Poaquil (natural process, Guatemala) and Pacheco (honey process, Honduras) to create a sweet, high-impact coffee blend that's perfect for summer sipping. You’ll get to start your summer days with a perfect balance of modern and classic flavors that will delight you in a wide variety of methods - both hot and cold - all while creating life-changing opportunities for small Central American farmers in the process! We’re really hoping you’ll love it, and that we’ll get to continue to support them by buying more and more coffees from them this year.

Thank you always for making our Ethos possible, and for all the love and support we feel every roasting day when we look at those beautiful long lists with every single one of your orders, ready to be fulfilled…. it is truly a joy and an honor to get to roast for you, and we hope that this Summer is filled with new adventures and new opportunities… we’ll keep roasting the most exquisite, most impactful coffees we can find for you, and hope they get to travel with you in your many adventures! Or, in case you prefer your freshly roasted coffee to travel to you… remember we roast & ship (via 1-3 Day Priority) to ANY address within the USA - three times a week, every single week!

Excited to share the new Ethereal, and always looking forward to roasting for you,

Jolian & Lisbeth

P.S. We just got new yellow hats from our last trip to Guatemala… as one more impact-focused offering, and an always favorite summer accessory that keeps harmful UV rays away from your face (we do want you to live longer, healthier lives!)… we hope you’ll check them out, and let us know which other colors you’d like to see in the future! (we’ve also decided to include one as a special gift on all large orders (>10 lbs) this Summer!)

🔥 Our first Oak Barrel Aged Coffee!

We’re so excited to finally share with you something we’ve been working on behind the scenes since January this year… our first Oak Barrel Aged coffee!

Naturally, we chose our highest impact relationship - Poaquil - for this very first special limited edition! It all began when we met Christian Lugo, of Lugo’s Craft Distillery, late last year. We instantly connected over a shared passion for our craft, for quality, and for creating something that’s truly one-of-a-kind. The moment he showed us a beautiful American Oak barrel, holding their first barrel-aged spiced rum (which was almost ready to be bottled for the Holiday season)… we saw an amazing opportunity to give it a second life as our first barrel-aged (aka. “secondary post-harvest fermentation vessel”) experience! Jolian has been personally rotating the green beans inside barrel every week, and we’ve been sampling and testing different parameters every few weeks. The beans have now completely transformed, and feature a beautiful golden color, a delightful smell (reminiscent of a distillery - yet, no worries - any traces of alcohol from the barrel will be completely evaporated during the first stages of roasting), and most importantly, a very unique, new flavor profile once they’re roasted. We believe we have achieved a memorable, surprisingly sweet and complex cup experience; one that features strong hints of stone fruits and a persistent honey sweetness in the palate.

It will be available online only, and roasted fresh, on order as all our other beans (there’s also some special touches on the packaging, which we hope you’ll love!). Our first official roast will be this Monday, Oct 17th, and we will roast orders every Monday and Friday until the barrel is empty! If you are a subscriber, you can request it as part of your November box, or as an add-on, by logging into your plan at subscriber.ethosroasters.com (using the email associated with your account) anytime before your next shipment; or by replying to this email if you prefer!

We truly can’t wait to hear your thoughts, and we’re already working on some more surprises for our favorite Holiday (Thanksgiving!) next month. Thank you for continuing to make our Ethos possible every day… getting to be in this journey with all of you is the greatest adventure of our lives, and it means the world you have chosen to share it with us,

Jolian & Lisbeth