Our new date stamp arrived yesterday and I will be using it tonight during my Tuesday night coffee roasting session.

Also to clarify the roasted on date is on all of the coffee we roast and sell through our web site.

We are now placing the date roasted on each and every bag of roasted coffee we sell!

We are also redesigning our label to accomodate this better.  Some of you getting roasted coffee orders for about the last 2 weeks have seen how many labels I was putting on, this will cut down on labels on each bag of coffee.

Pete

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 uploaded a video clip of this to You Tube also.  Here is the You Tube video embedded into this post.

 

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.

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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.

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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.