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Stone Creek Coffee Fundraising!
With cooler weather and the start of school, it is time to think about supporting our kids and schools with fundraising! Over the summer, we gave our already popular fundraising program a little overhaul. With cool new sell sheets, and the addition of Stone Creek's Old Fashioned Hot Chocolate, this program is perfect for schools, churches, and clubs seeking to raise money for their cause. Here are a few details about our program:
• We have 6 coffees… Continue
Added by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on September 12, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments
Now Roasting...Best of Brazil
We are proud to begin serving our Best of Brazil as our newest single origin coffee. Since 2005, Stone Creek has been purchasing Brazilian coffee from the Sinay-Neves farm in Brazil. This socially responsible relationship has allowed us to support social projects on the farm aimed at improving the lives of coffee harvesters. To date, our Brazilian coffee has been used in many of our blends an in our signature Green Bike Espresso. We are proud to now offer… Continue
Added by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on September 4, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments
Coming Soon...New Factory Reserve!
On Wednesday, August 6th, we will be debuting our latest Factory Reserve Coffee...Las Mujeres de Guayata Colombia. We're very excited to introduce this very unique coffee that is grown and exported by an all women's coffee coop in the Guayata region of Colombia.
Here's what our Master Roaster, Stephen Bybee, had to say about this coffee:
"Founded in 1998 by 30 female, Colombian coffee farmers, Las Mujeres de Guayata is a women’s'… Continue
Added by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on August 1, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments
Now Roasting...Harvest Blend!
While we're not quite ready to let go of summer just yet, in the world of coffee, it's time to roll out Harvest Blend. This year's Harvest Blend is a great coffee that will carry us through this beautiful time of year. Here's what our Green Coffee Team had to say about the blend:
'Autumn in Wisconsin is a time of pleasant weather, brilliant foliage, and rich harvests. At Stone Creek Coffee, we have captured the essence of the season in a… Continue
Added by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on July 21, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments
Introducing...Milwaukee Blend!
From a city that has always known how to work hard comes a coffee that works as hard as you do. Milwaukee Blend is a well-crafted combination of strength, balance, and dark-roasted flavor that yields a great tasting, rock solid cup of coffee, time after time. As strong as the bricks that built our city, Milwaukee Blend will give you the fuel to start your day and the muscle to finish your work.…
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Added by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on July 2, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments
Earth to Fellow Coffee Enthusiasts!
We are proud to announce that we have adopted a coffee compost program in our stores. Look for the bright green garbage can and help yourself to a bag of free coffee grounds for your compost pile or garden! (This program will be running throughout the summer) Here s a little information about coffee and composting:
Every day across America, Asia and Europe, millions of pots of coffee and tea are brewed, and the millions of pounds of wet grounds,… Continue
Added by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on June 10, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments
Market Time!!
For us here at Stone Creek, there's always one sure sign that summer is here...Farmer's Market Season! The time as finally arrived to kick off the markets. This weekend, you can find us pedaling our wares at the East Town Market in Cathedral Square Park. Our Farmer's Market manager, Stephanie and her team have been gearing up for another great season. You can catch them this Saturday from 8am-12:30pm.
We will also be working Bay View's South Shore… Continue
Added by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on June 4, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments
CoffeeMANIA
As could probably guess, we LOVE coffee! You could also probably guess that there is an entire world of people out there that love it too. From May 2-5, coffee lovers from all over the world will converge upon Minneapolis, MN for the Specialty Coffeee Association of America's 20th Annual Conference and Exhibition. This event is a trade show for coffee industry profesionals and enthusiasts. More than 500 exhibitors will showcase the latest and most… Continue
Added by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on March 26, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments
Our New FTO Sumatra!
I've just had a cup, or maybe three, of our new Fair Trade Organic Sumatra, an absolutely delightful new crop offering from a relatively new fair trade coop in Sumatra. Stone Creek usually purchases our Fair Trade Organic Sumatra from the PPKGO coop in the Gayo mountain region of northern Sumatra, but this time we are trying out a Mandheeling offering from the KBQB coop in the Aceh province of northern Sumatra. When I initially cupped this coffee… Continue
Added by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on March 23, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments
Coming Soon...Rio Azul Guatemala!
Our newest Factory Reserve coffee comes from a well-established coffee coop in the Huehuetenango region of Guatemala. Rio Azul Guatemala is grown by the 175 member Rio Azul Coop in the highlands of western Guatemala. All the members of this coffee growing organization live within walking distance of the community wet mill in the small village of Jacaltenango. Officially founded in 1967,… Continue
Added by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on February 7, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments
Direct Relationships Flourish in Honduras
Posted by: Mary Dally-Muenzmaier
Stone Creek Coffee's owner and founder, Eric Resch, just recently returned from the lovely and enchanting country of Honduras--a land rich in cultural and coffee growing history. While there, he spent three days visiting microenterprises, including multiple coffee co-ops.
One such co-op…
Added by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on January 25, 2008 at 10:06am — No Comments
Our Reviews Just Keep Getting Better
Posted by: Mary Dally-Muenzmaier
Local tech head Matt Caton started a blog called Table for Two (and a half): A Milwaukee Family Dining Review back in September of 2007 and since then he's been posting reviews of Milwaukee restaurants, running the culinary gamut from Indian to Thai to American. While his blog focus is fixed on family friendly restaurants--he and his wife have a three year old son--he also looks…
ContinueAdded by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on January 25, 2008 at 8:50am — No Comments
Cupping the Cold Away
Posted by: Mary Dally-Muenzmaier
We're not gonna lie to ya, kids, it is crazy cold out there. In fact, it's colder than the glare your mother gives you when she finds out you did something dingbat dangerous when you were young but never told her about and she's missed her chance to punish you for it because you're all grown up now. Come on, you know that glare--it is cold.…
ContinueAdded by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on January 24, 2008 at 10:22am — No Comments
Stone Creek's Eric Resch Receives High Honor
Posted by: Mary Dally-Muenzmaier
There's nothing better in life than garnering praise from your peers for making a positive difference--okay, maybe winning the lottery and/or the love of a good better half (not necessarily in that order) might be better, but only by a slim margin. This being true, we are pleased as punch to inform you that our very own Eric Resch, President and Founder of Stone Creek Coffee, has…
ContinueAdded by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on January 16, 2008 at 12:46pm — 1 Comment
Now Roasting Winter, Schminter Blend
Posted by: Mary Dally-Muenzmaier
Those of us who have lived all or most of our lives in the land o' Wisco know that each season brings its own rewards and challenges. This winter, for instance, has thus far brought us significant amounts of snow and fair to middlin' temperatures, but this is changing even as we speak for teardrop freezing winds are set to…
ContinueAdded by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on January 15, 2008 at 11:57am — No Comments
Stone Creek Glendale Gets a Friendly Shout Out
Calling our wall sized chalkboard "the coolest interactive feature of any coffee joint anywhere," he deftly describes just why it is so übercool. But…
Added by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on January 15, 2008 at 11:49am — No Comments
Tomorrow's Cupping: Pure Roasted Mystery
The following reenactment is 100% true. No names have been changed to protect the innocent.
People often ask us, "Stone Creek, how come you're so dedicated to putting on
Free-For-Everyone Events like your biweekly coffee cuppings and refuse
to charge the living heck out us for everything?" Our reaction to… Continue
Added by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on January 10, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments
Smarties Get Double Punches
If you haven't yet heard, Double Punch Days began January 1 and, boy howdy, what a start it's been! We've already given out oodles of Stone Creek Coffee drink cards to those retail store customers who know that for every coffee or tea drink purchase they make during January they'll get two hole punches on their card. These clever and industrious patrons (a.k.a. Smarties) also know that getting two hole… Continue
Added by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on January 4, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments
Sorry, Kids, No Cupping Tomorrow But...
Posted by: Mary Dally-Muenzmaier
Since our all java knowing Roast Master Stephen is on a well deserved vacation, there will be NO cupping event at the Factory tomorrow. That being the case, our next and first of the New Year cupping will be held on Friday January 11 at the usual time, 9 sharp in the AM.
We know you're more than a little heartbroken by this news, and to be honest so are…
ContinueAdded by Stone Creek Coffee Roasters on December 27, 2007 at 9:00am — No Comments
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