Fancy Pants Coffee Club is here! Expect a special podcast episode every month for the Fancy Pants subscription. Aaron, Evan, and Annisa dive deep into where each coffee comes from, how Evan roasted it, and the best ways to brew it up. This natural Ethiopia sourced from Royal Coffee tastes like jasmine tea, pomegranate, and red grape. Ethiopian coffee is often seen as the "star" origin of specialty coffee... at least it is when you first start drinking specialty coffee. It tends to boasts notes of blueberry, strawberry, and all other berries! This specific coffee i ..read more

Fancy Pants Coffee Club is here! Expect a special podcast episode every month for the Fancy Pants subscription. Aaron, Evan, and Annisa dive deep into where each coffee comes from, how Evan roasted it, and the best ways to brew it up. The Centroamericano variety we've become very familiar with over the past 5 years, but this is the first time tasting it as an anaerobic natural. Prepare yourself for an intense, syrupy, fruit cordial-like cup profile this upcoming month. This tropically delicious cup comes from our friends at Aquiares Estate! We've been working with them for quite some time and ..read more

Fancy Pants Coffee Club is here! Expect a special podcast episode every month for the Fancy Pants subscription. Aaron, Evan, and Annisa dive deep into where each coffee comes from, how Evan roasted it, and the best ways to brew it up. What an honor to represent 4 years of sourcing coffee from La Pradera and win with this beautiful honey processed Geisha variety and place as a 2023 Good Food Awards Finalist. Our favorite note from the judges was, “It felt like a hug.” This is not one to miss! Oscar Daza produced this honey processed Geisha variety in Santander, Colombia between 1700-1900 m ..read more

Fancy Pants Coffee Club is here! Expect a special podcast episode every month for the Fancy Pants subscription. Aaron, Evan, and Annisa dive deep into where each coffee comes from, how Evan roasted it, and the best ways to brew it up. January's release comes with 2 bags of coffee from Southern Peru. Our core relationship coffees come from Rutas del Inca in Northern Peru with a purple fruitiness and milk chocolate cup profile. This month's Fancy Pants will introduce you to what Cusco has to offer. Huaynapata and Lucmabamba are wildly different, ranging from a very sweet and almond pastry-like c ..read more

Fancy Pants Coffee Club is here! Expect a special podcast episode every month for the Fancy Pants subscription. Aaron, Evan, and Annisa dive deep into where each coffee comes from, how Evan roasted it, and the best ways to brew it up. December's coffee comes from our friends at Hacienda La Pradera, a family owned and operated organic farm in Aratoca, Colombia. 4 generations and counting directly involved in the production, processing and export of truly magnificent organic, specialty coffee. One of the most rare and difficult coffees to roast is the Mokka variety. The window of ripeness is so ..read more

Fancy Pants Coffee Club is here! Expect a special podcast episode every month for the Fancy Pants subscription. Aaron, Evan, and Annisa dive deep into where each coffee comes from, how Evan roasted it, and the best ways to brew it up. November's coffee comes from the COMICOVEL cooperative- a key piece to our flagship blend Café de Americas. This lot is a microlot from one of the founding members of COMICOVEL, Miguel Flores' farm, Las Caobas. This represents our aim at sourcing, supporting community projects like COMICOVEL that lead us to higher end single variety and producers like Miguel. We ..read more

In this episode Aaron and Annisa interview Director of Marketing for Swiss Water Decaf, Erin Reed. Swiss Water is a process of decaffeinating coffee that is the specialty coffee industry's preferred way of decaf. Reed is responsible for advancing consumer awareness and preference for Swiss Water Process decaf, and delivering brand value for roaster and importer partners globally. She brings with her more than two decades’ marketing experience, honed at Titleist and Starbucks after completing both a B.A. in Business Administration and an M.A. in Sport Management. A native Californian now based ..read more

Fancy Pants Coffee Club is here! Expect a special podcast episode every month for the Fancy Pants subscription. Aaron, Evan, and Annisa dive deep into where each coffee comes from, how Evan roasted it, and the best ways to brew it up. Rwanda Kiyego Karambi is sourced from our friends at Cafe Imports from the COOPAC cooperative located on the northern landscape of Lake Kivu. It is a single-variety washed process coffee with tasting notes of dried figs, sweet tea, and fresh grapefruit.  Want to sign up for some wildly tasty coffees? Go to our website roasthousecoffee.com or follow us on Ins ..read more

In this episode, Annisa and Aaron interview Samantha from Fair Trade USA. They discuss the value proposition of Fair Trade and their strategy for growth into the future of coffee. Sam started in specialty coffee as a barista while she completed her graduate degree in Sustainable Solutions. After completing her Master’s Degree, she began working with Fair Trade USA in the business development space- educating, informing, and working with roasters like us about the value of Fair Trade certifications. sustainedcoffee.org ..read more

In this episode we’ll talk about Ilze’s journey in the sciences and her passion for coffee research. We delve into all sorts of topics about how to enhance your palate, how taste ties to emotion, and where sweetness in coffee comes from. Aaron and Annisa learn all about why people love certain kinds of coffee ..read more