Coffee seems like a simple thing
Coffee seems like a simple thing
You make it most every morning
Or stop at your favorite cafe
Still sleepy until the first sip
We Believe
SIMPLE THINGS DONE exceptionally WELL MAKE LIFE RICHER™
Ready just for you.
See, Coffee Is Not A Simple thing
See, Coffee Is Not A Simple thing
Red and ripe for picking.
From seedlings shown above
to first harvest
takes three to four years
of nurture
Harvest is Hard Work
Harvest is Hard Work
Here in Papua New Guinea, it may take four days to truck from farm and mill to port if the roads are intact.
The best farm workers may pick
just 200 pounds of coffee cherries A day
On a steep hill, under hot sun
Or a steady rain
Specialty grade coffees we buy are selectively harvested
Only ripe coffee cherries are picked by hand
Processing takes it down to the Bean
Processing takes it down to the Bean
Farm to Processing
Two primary ways to process coffee are natural, or dry, processing and wet processing. Processing further sorts the cherries then removes four layers -- pulp, mucilage, parchment and silverskin -- leaving the beans.
When the pulp and all or some of the mucilage are removed, beans are laid in elevated drying tables or on patios to dry to ~11% moisture content to prepare for storage and shipping. Parchment and silverskin are milled off just prior to sorting, quality grading and shipping.
Dennis, our host at Planta Procesadora Diria, raked through an end-of-season batch of organic coffee on a drying patio.
The farm worker's 200 pounds of cherries are now down to ~64 pounds of processed beans
The methods and care in processing can affect flavor profiles. The Costa Rican farm, Las Lajas, it's processing plant shown above, markets several variations based on drying method alone.
equity, culture and environment.
equity, culture and environment.
OUR MISSION IS TO RESPECT THE PEOPLE WHO PRODUCE YOUR COFFEE FROM Farm TO YOUR CUP.
Sorting specialty coffee is by hand to eliminate over- and under-ripe beans called "stinker" that, well, have an unpleasant effect in the cup.
On the slopes of Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains, 1,200 members of the Bakonzu tribe have formed Bukonzo Organics (BOCU). They are among the first farmers in Uganda to produce Fair-Trade and Organic Certified coffees.
We feature a coffee from one of BOCU's 12 mills as UGANDA NAYABIRONGO and the price we paid stemmed from a premium at the farm gate over the common Fair Trade benchmark.
In 2017, our roast of a Uganda Bukonzo cooperative coffee was cited in Coffee Review’s Top 30 global best coffees.
Like others in specialty coffee, we've found that focusing on quality
provides better assurance of social, economic and environmental equity at the farm level
Roasting!
Shipped across continents and oceans, coffee arrives at our roasting plant.
Roasting!
Shipped across continents and oceans, coffee arrives at our roasting plant.
We opened a new roasting plant in July 2023, where Dennis, our principle roaster, applies his 20 years of experience to bring the best our of every coffee we import.
At Conscious Cup, we roast in small batches
This gets us the airflow and long temperature curve that delivers a fully developed coffee whether light, medium or darker roast.
We seek to highlight the unique flavors inherent to the nature of each coffee we import and roast
Go darker or too hot too fast and the roast is imposed on the coffee.
The result is Conscious Cup Coffee Roasters coffees have been consistently rated outstanding with 21 different roasts scoring 90-95 points. Our Kenya Kiri is our current highest-rated coffee at 95 points.
Into the cup
Into the cup
Prepping a pour over, measured down to the gram.
We don't take for granted
what we deliver to your cup.
whether Brewed coffee
a hand-prepped Pour Over
a contemporary Vanilla E Caramello
or a very traditional Cappuccino.
Our baristas practice. The latte art isn't just for show but to demonstrate that the espresso is well-prepared with a lasting, heady creama, and that the milk is frothed to silky smooth perfection
We want each drink you order to be expressly yours
Please ask if you don't see your preference
