A Richer Taste

Did you know that a great cup of coffee can be as interesting as a great glass of wine? The natural flavours available in great coffees include: caramel, chocolate, vanilla, and nuts. And we have a roast dating program that will bring these exotic flavours to your cup!

Like wine, it takes skill and care at every stage to produce a great cup of coffee. Unlike wine, coffee goes stale and loses its great flavours within about 6-8 weeks of roasting, and after about 3 months its flavourful oils go rancid! So, because we want you to experience the exotic flavours in fresh coffee, our Roast Dating program ensures that all coffee we ship has been roasted wihin the past week.

Producing great coffee begins in the hands of the growers and ends with the brewing and serving. Our growers select the best stock, grow it according to time honoured tradition, and harvest and dry it with care. Birds and Beans selects only the highest quality (specialty grade) Arabica beans.

Our roastmaster has the most critical role — The flavours in coffee are produced by "caramelization" during the roasting process. Our roastmaster works with each new crop to design the roasting profile that exposes the best flavours available in the bean. Beans are roasted by hand and in small batches to ensure the highest quality results.

We classify our roasts according to our coffee roast colour chart We developed this system in order to provide a consistent definition of each of our roast styles.

Once roasted, the most important factor is to brew the coffee before it becomes stale. Roasted coffee beans have lost their exotic flavours within 2 months of being roasted — regardless of the packaging or storage techniques used. After 3 months coffee goes rancid producing the typical bitter flavour that we all have learned to associate with coffee.

In North America most coffee is sold several months after roasting so we have become accustomed to accepting stale, rancid coffee as normal! At Birds and Beans we ship coffee within one week of being roasted. When you try it, you'll find it like a whole new class of beverage!

Even freshly roasted coffee beans becomes stale within hours of being ground. That's why its important to buy whole beans and grind them just before brewing.

It is also important to make sure your grinding and brewing equipment is clean. Over time, rancid oils can collect in brewing and grinding equipment and will destroy coffee in this last critical steps. Also, scale can build up in brewers that reduce the brewing temperature also spoiling the brew.

At Birds and Beans we dedicate ourselves to bringing you a new coffee experience. We're sure that you try our fresh Roast Dated coffee you will never go back to "corporate coffee" again!