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I love to find and experience new coffees whenever I can! Recently, I had the great pleasure of finding Blanchard's Coffee.
Blanchard's Coffee is wonderful. They demand freshness and roast their beans daily. Roasting in small batches, they measure freshness in days, not weeks or months!
Blanchard's Coffee company is an independent, family-owned coffee roastery in Richmond, VA. We roast almost daily and have been since 2004. Below you'll find a list of the folks who serve up our coffee. We also ship just about anywhere, so our online shop should be your next destination. Drink up, bee buzzed.
I was blessed to receive two bags of fresh ground coffee: Fair Trade Organic, Ethiopian Harrar.
Everything you love about trail mix, now in liquid form! A smooth, balanced coffee with notes of dried cherries, milk chocolate, ripe blueberries, and just a touch of salt. A discerning palate might also pick up some red hot cinnamon hidden away.
and Swiss Water Processed Brazilian Decaf.
Decaffeinated by a mysterious process involving reverse osmosis and other stuff we don't really understand. The end result iis one of the purer-tasting decafs you'll have this lifetime. Drink up, guiltlessly!
Very different coffees! The Ethiopian Harrar is richly textured with flavour. The notes of chocolate and blueberry are deep and true. Thoroughly enjoyable and absolutely PERFECT for cooler weather! If you like to camp out -- this is a great "wake me up" coffee!
For softer notes and a quiet evening, I love the Swiss Water Processed Brazilian Decaf. This is a milder roast, a hint of chocolate, and decaf for de-stressing! This is such a lovely mild coffee and absolutely no bitterness at all.
Blanchard's Coffee offers so much: Brasilian Cerrado, Indian Monsooned Malabar, Espresso Blend, Metroplex, Swiss Water Processed Peruvian Decaf, and more! There is a coffee for every taste.
Blanchard's Coffee surprised me. It really did. I knew that I'd get good coffee -- but I didn't expect to receive such amazingly GREAT coffee! It's obvious that this company takes great pride in their product and in their service. The packaging alone suggests they put great thought in to keeping the coffee as fresh as possible.
The taste -- how do you describe perfection? Every single note is brilliant. No harshness, no bitterness, no after-tastes. Each cup is enjoyable from start to finish.
Blanchard's Coffee also makes seriously delicious iced coffee. I've made it that way several times now. The sugar and cream does not in any way dilute or diminish the flavour of the coffee itself. Seriously... who needs an expensive coffee shop?
The folks at Blanchard's Coffee love to connect with their customers and friends. Please join them of their Facebook Page and @drinkblanchards on Twitter.
The folks at Blanchard's Coffee want to share their wonderful coffees with you and have generously offered one of my lucky readers a chance to win two bags of coffee and a T-Shirt!
Just follow the directions below for your chance to enter to win!
DISCLOSURE: I received two bags of Blanchard's Coffee for the purpose of review. I was under no obligation to write a review. I received no monetary compensation. The opinions expressed herein are my own and based on my own use of and experience with the items.
Fair Trade Organic, Voilà sounds good!
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Learned: They roast their beans daily. Roasting in small batches = keeps fresh.
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I learned that their coffee sounds seriously yummy!!
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i learned that blanchard is a independent, family-owned coffee roastery
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I learned that there are only 300 pounds of the Nicaraguan Maragogype Peaberry coffee bean in the world... Now that's a rare coffee!
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this is the first I have heard of Blanchards Coffee. It looks and sounds great - I must try it!!!
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I learned about the Nicaraguan Maragogype Peaberry. Is it too late to change my initial entry? I'd love to try this coffee!!!!!
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I learned that Maragogype coffee, also referred to as the "elephant bean", is a mutation of the typica coffee varietal (one of the two major classifications of arabica coffee) originally discovered in Bahi, Brazil. Maragogype trees have an exceptionally small yield and are often more difficult to maintain. Therefore, the coffee produced is quite hard to come by.
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I learned they have been in business since 2004.
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I learned that Blanchard's Coffee company is an independent, family-owned coffee roastery based in Richmond, VA.
ReplyDeleteI would like to try their Swiss Water Processed Brazilian Decaf. and Summers Bl-End.
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I'd like to try Fair Trade Organic, Honduran and Fair Trade Organic, Ethiopian Harrar.
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Thanks so much for all of your interest!
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I learned that they roast daily in small batches
ReplyDeleteCoffee goes stale quickly so they roast their beans daily!
ReplyDeleteI would like to try Ethiopian Yirgacheffe and Dark on Dark
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ReplyDeleteI learned: Maragogype peaberries are notably complex in flavor with delicate acids combined with soft, buttery texture. In the cup, Nicaraguan Maragogype Peaberry produces big aromas of apricot, pineapple, and spiced rum leading to flavors reminiscent of tart lemon preserves on a warm brioche.
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I learned that they sell a kind of coffee called Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, which I thought was funny.
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I'd like to try these - Summer's Bl-End & Breakfast Blend.
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Something I learned and liked - Coffee can go stale quickly so Blanchard's roast their beans daily.
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coffee can go stale very quickly
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I learned that "Coffee can go stale quickly".
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Blanchards has been in business since 2004
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I learned that the Maragogype Peaberry is an extremely rare find and Blanchard's Coffee Co. this year's entire crop is just 300 pounds.
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They have a great selection of Fair Trade and Organic Coffees.
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ReplyDeleteTheir coffee is ground daily, as coffee can go stale quickly.
ReplyDeleteI was happy to see that Ethiopian Yirgacheffe is their flagship coffee. It is one of my faves.
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I would most like to try the breakfast blend and summer blend.
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They roast in small batches so that the coffee doesn't go stale.
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I learned that the Nicaraguan Maragogype Peaberry is an extremely rare find.
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I learned that their are way more types of beans than I thought including some rare ones like Nicaraguan Maragogype Peaberry. I also learned that Blanchard's is in Richmond, VA.
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I learned if you want great tasting coffee, it's got to be freshly roasted.
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Dark as Dark, and Breakfast Blend are my picks to try.
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I learned they roast their beans daily.
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I learned that there are only 300 pounds of the Nicaraguan Maragogype Peaberry coffee bean!
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I learned that there are two major classifications of arabica coffee, one of which is the typica coffee varietal. Maragogype coffee, also known as "elephant bean", is a mutation of this.
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I learned that there are two major classifications of coffee beans, one of which is the Arabica bean. That made me wonder what the other one was so I looked it up. The two major classifications of beans used are the Arabica and the Robusta.
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I'd like to try Dark as Dark and the Nicaraguan Maragogype Peaberry.
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i learned that this company is independent and family owned
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So pleased to discover them. We are coffee "addicts" also.. I like that they roast in small batches.
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Coffee beans look kind of like flour-y kidney beans before roasting to a deep dark brown. Thanks for the giveaway!
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I learned they purchased a whole crop of extremely rare coffee this year -
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Big aromas of apricot, pineapple & spiced rum leading to flavors reminiscent of tart, lemon preserves on brioche.
Sounds good! Now I really want a cup of coffee at 9:30 pm and no decaf..lol..what to do? Gonna have a cup and live dangerously. :)
Peaberries are a secondary mutation wherein the coffee cherry only produces one seed instead of two.
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I learned that the Maragogype coffee bean is a mutation of the common Typica bean--a mutation that creates a soft, more palatable, delicate coffee. The Maragogype trees are considerably more fickle and produce a much lower yield, thus making the coffee harder to farm and more rare.
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I would like to try Breakfast Blend and Dark as Dark
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Peaberries are a secondary mutation wherein the coffee cherry only produces one seed instead of two. Peaberries generally occur on the furthest branches of the coffee tree and make up less than 3% of a tree's yield. They are highly prized and are hand-picked from the rest of the harvest.
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learned that that the Nicaraguan
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I learned that "Nicaraguan Maragogype Peaberry is an extremely rare coffee and Blanchard's Coffee Co. is excited to have purchased this year's entire crop" ヅ *Thanks* for the giveaway!
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