Kickapoo Coffee
Last weekend Robb and I were pondering what to get Mr. Stankey for his birthday this past Thursday. And then it came to us: locally roasted coffee!
A few weeks ago I bought some coffee from Johnson Brother’s for my Twitter-pal (@luzbonita) who had simply run out of coffee and kept forgetting to bring some more into work. I love this picture of her with her bag o’ beans. While Johnson Brother’s coffee is delicious, they didn’t have a bag of decaf coffee on their online store.
We looked at a few other roasters and settled on Kickapoo Coffee which is a small, family run business that receives their beans from small farmer-owned, fair trade cooperatives and then roasts the beans in small batches in vintage (pre-WWII) German roasters. We selected their decaf blend for Mr. Stankey and bought ourselves a can of Organic Guatemalan beans. They are described as:
Deliciously fragrant and bright with lively notes of citrus, maple syrup, and milk chocolate.
And I must say, they indeed live up to that. This roast is amazing. It seems most of the coffee we have bought for ourselves recently have been rather harsh on our stomachs and overly bitter. But this is the smoothest roast I have bought to date. (Not to mention, our favourite cappuccino place, Bradbury’s, exclusivley serves Kickapoo.)
Plus, it’s just fun to say … Kickapoo!!
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