Origin– Ethiopia Region– Yirgacheffe Mill Location– Addis Ababa Altitude– 5741 to 6562′ Producer– Ninety Plus Coffee Varietal– Mixed heirloom varietals Process– Natural, sun dried on raised beds Roast– Light Black cherry aroma, juicy acidity rolls into elderberry, herbal tones of shiso, umame and rich dark chocolate liquor. This is the outspoken sister coffee of the Nekisse. […]
2013
Nekisse Receives 93 Points!
Blind Assessment: Delicate, complex, lively. Distinct honey and crisply sweet cacao-nib with lavender-like flowers and an herby hint, cilantro perhaps, in aroma and cup. Lively, floral-toned acidity; very light but silky mouthfeel. Lavender in particular carries into a quietly rich finish. Notes: Ninety Plus is a distinguished boutique exporter and importer of innovative small-lot coffees from […]
12 Ounce Bags Are Here! (Free shipping offer)
We would like to introduce our coffee…in a new size! The 16 ounce package is a thing of the past. You, our beloved, coffee obsessed customers, have long recognized that fresh coffee matters. We roast it to order for you so that you may brew it during its peak of flavor. In response to an […]
Mane Coffee Conference
Our own Barth Anderson will moderating The Coffee Trade panel Saturday September 28th at the Mid Atlantic Northeast Coffee Conference in Pawtucket Rhode Island.
BeCause Good Water = Good Coffee: Barrington Coffee
An article on the importance of water and filtration featuring Barrington Coffee.
Base Knowledge
BCRC was featured in the Origin issue of Fresh Cup Magazine, August 2013.
Affogato August!
The Espresso Sunday – A most just dessert. Each Friday this August we will bring affogato to our menu at our Boston location. Our plan is to drown Toscanini’s French Vanilla ice cream in a Barrington Gold triple ristretto espresso. A sensation that will leave you with more than just a fond memory. $5 Barrington Coffee […]
Sheeva Receives 93 Points!
Blind Assessment: Sweetly tart, lyric, complex. Roasted cacao nib, honey, guava, green apple, brisk lavender in aroma and cup. Lively, juicy acidity; lightly syrupy mouthfeel. Flavor carries with authority into a bright, honey-toned finish. Notes: This coffee, which combines fine wet-processed Ethiopias from two of Ethiopia’s most distinguished growing regions, is the first in Barrington’s Ceres Project […]
Coffee Sourcing
Barth Anderson, green coffee buyer for BCRC at the Doka Estate, a fourth generation family farm in the Central Valley of Costa Rica. How do we source the coffees that we roast? With great care. Each year, Barth procures green coffee samples from the best coffee producers from around the globe. The coffees he identifies […]
Fresh Coffee
We want your coffee to arrive at optimal freshness. To make that happen, we fire up our roasters Monday through Thursday of each week. Any order received before 9am will be roasted and shipped out that very same day.
Puerto Rico 2012
For the past several years we have been working on a coffee and citrus tree polyculture farm revitalization project with a couple of organic farming friends of ours in Maricao, Puerto Rico. Here are some images from the farm. We look forward to getting this coffee back into our roasters for the holidays in 2013! […]
Free Tasting – Doka Two Ways
Friday, May 31, 2013 – Since 1996 we have had the distinct pleasure of working with the Vargas family who have owned and operated the Doka Estate in Costa Rica for four generations. This year’s harvest is quintessential and we have decided to offer it at two radically different roast levels. To accentuate the dualistic nature […]
Edible Berkshires
BCRC was featured in the Winter 2012/2013 issue of Edible Berkshires.
Landed Aging Program™
-Controlling relative humidity during green coffee storage to enhance body and soften acidity for espresso preparation. There are a multitude of compounds that exist in a coffee bean. They can either make, or break a coffee’s cup quality. We know that we can protect these compounds in green coffees through barrier protection and careful storage […]
Specialty Coffee Association of America Convention Boston 2013
Here’s Mukunda dosing a shot of Tchembe on the ultra-stable platform of the Synesso Hydra. We had the honor of partnering with Synesso this year which turned out to be as much fun as it was tasty. We want to send a huge thanks to all of the baristas that participated at the show and […]
How to find us from the SCAA Boston show.
Here is a map of how to find our shop from the SCAA Boston show.
BCRC events during SCAA Boston!
Here is a list of all the great BCRC happenings during the SCAA show in Boston this weekend (4/11 – 4/14).
Coffee is ripening in The Berkshires
The cherries on our coffee tree at the roastery are beginning to ripen!