Feature coffees

This week we have the Datrra Bruzzi from Brazil, a rainforest alliance, esalq certified, utz kapeh organic coffee.
In essence a coffee so good you feel like your healing the world just by brewing it. Now certifications in coffee are a wonderfully complex and infuriating thing. Not all certified coffees are quite what they claim while some uncertified coffees are a paradigm of healthy global trading. Needless to say we are terribly proud of all our coffees and the journey they have taken to get to our cups and we're more than willing to chat about the ethics of coffee purchasing at our store

The second coffee we have is the intensly different Misty Valley. This is a very special coffee from the yirga cheffe region in Ethiopia. It is left to ferment naturally inside the coffee cherry so it takes on a sharp, almost fruity flavour. We serve it fresh from a french press and its like no other coffee you've ever tried.
 

Well, May rattled along with construction still underway and June threatened to bypass us also before a few late night sessions with friends and family allowed us to finally open our doors on an other wise gloriously non descript Monday in the middle of the month. The 15th to be exact, mark it in your diaries, send us a card next year if we make it.
And what was opening day like? we'd done little in the way of advertising but we were armed with a tent, some balloons, the best coffee expert on the island (officially, he won a really big contest and everything) and lots of friends and family who wanted to test our bikes and our coffee. We let them test the lot and some even volunteered to test our debit and credit card machine which was very accomodating of them. We sold a bike which i believe bodes well for the future, to a very nice lady by the name of Margret who thought she would never ride again. She bought one of our upright comfort bikes in a lovely cream hue. Needless to say, the day was toasted and with that the Broken Spoke was officially up and running. Hope to see you here soon