Since we are a true Mom and Pop business we build and maintain our own web site. I am the Web Site maintenace guy as well as the coffee roaster.

We  maintain 2 stores and since Jan 1 2008 we have added a blog to our site also. All the sites pages, except for the blog comment and post pages will have a link to our Main Index Page.  From the main index page and the information pages, the store links are always on the top right hand side of the right side of the page. The Retail Store has all of the coffee equipment, retail prices for roasted coffee in 1 or 5 pound bags and green coffee beans in 1,5 and 10 pound sized bags. The Wholesale Store is just coffee. 5 pound bags of roasted with a 2 bag minimum to avoid a low order fee and green coffee beans in 25 and 50 pound sized bags.

Right now the Retail Store, Wholesale Store and the Blog require a seperate log in and account.  You can use the same email address and change the passwords to the same, but they will need to be logged in to separately.

I hope this will help you navigate our site!  I am always trying to find a way to combine all three into one log in and account for our customers.

We are changing the Day Old section to the Pre Roasted section on our retail store.  We want to pass on some savings to current customers and hopefully add some new customers too!

As I roast this week I will be adding roasted coffee to this section, but we will not have our entire coffee offerings listed there.  Just the best sellers.

Watch for future updates.

I am playing around with twitter on Our Coffee Barn. Have you tried twitter yet?

We are changing to a newer faster dedicated server right now.  You may find that you can’t log on to place an order now.  We are getting the security certificates migrated to the new server so you may not be able to place an order right now.

Please come back later this morning and our site will be running faster than ever before!

I just had to get a picture of this!  We sell them both and what better endorsment than to have them both used by a Barista in the USBC Semi Finals.  He used some fresh ground coffee drip brewed in the Chemex pint coffee brewer in the signature drink category.

We got to meet the Hottop crew at the SCAA Convention!  Michael was GREAT a VERY nice man to do business with!  I hope to have a very long business relationship with Hottop.  Here are a few pictures, and a video of Michael unpacking a Hottop Coffee Roaster, I took this video to show just how well they are packed.

 

 Hottop Coffee Roaster: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We have found a new home coffee roaster to carry!!!!  It is affordable I think they told me Retail for $159.00!  They let me take some video of one in operation at the SCAA convention trade show.  I will be posting 2 videos and 2 pictures.

 

 Nesco Home Coffee Roaster Video: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Nesco Home Coffee Roaster: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Our plans for the day are to get some more pictures of some new products that we are going to carry on our sites store.  I will be posting them here as I can.

Saturday May 3rd

I want to apologize if this blog does not look or flow like other blogs, I am a Coffee Roaster NOT a reporter!

I had to get a picture of this roaster, the only thing similar to my current roaster is the color!  I would love to be able to fill this roaster up for 10 or 20 batches a day! but I only need a 15K roaster I think this one is a 40K or so.

Petes new roaster?

We walked a LOT and met alot of peolple too.  When we wanted a place to rest the US Barista Competition was the place with the chairs.

Some of the competitors had to deal with a lot of cameras too!

The waiting and watching sensory judges.

Grinding and dosing for a shot of espresso.

We are going to the 2008 SCAA Convention in Minneapolis!

Here is a link to the Specialty Coffee Association of Americas Convention Official Site

We will be attending the convention May 2nd through May 4th.  Watch this section of our site for live updates from the floor of the show! Or at least nightly updates, I am not a reporter!

We had a great day at the convention!  Got some new business contacts, and met a few established contacts for the first time!   We could not take any video of the show.  I did take a few photos today but I do not have the photo editing software on my laptop to get the pictures to a smaller size for the site, sorry.

Sunday Morning:

I am finding out my new sites blogging abilities and I do not need my expensive photo editing software for this!

We have had an increase in Yama Vacuum Brewer sales the past couple of weeks and we are currently out of both the 5 cup and 8 cup stove top models.  The 5 cup model will be back in stock by Friday April 25th or early next week.  The 8 cup model will not be here until May 9th.  We are sorry for the inconvenience.