We pride ourselves on providing you with a wide variety of rare and impeccable single origin coffees here at modcup. You’ll never stop at one of our four locations without catching a glimpse of different, brightly colored bags of delicious coffee sourced from all over the Belt. We’re incredibly fortunate to offer these roasts and want to make sure we do our due diligence in discussing what product you’ll enjoy as well as credit all the hard working people who bring these coffees to our doorstep. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be putting a handful of our best seasonal choices in the spotlight r ..read more

(Original story written by Jeremy Schneider for NJ.com) Travas Clifton has long prided himself in selling coffee from all over the world. Now, his New Jersey shop’s beans are making their own globetrotting trek. Modcup, the coffee roastery with three locations in Jersey City, is being sold in two coffee shops in South Korea. The New Jersey coffee company’s journey to South Korea actually started in Colombia, when Clifton was visiting the renowned coffee farm Café Granja La Esperanza. They brought some of that coffee back to Jersey City and roasted it, and it was named the No. 12 coffee in the ..read more

According to Dr Manuel Diaz we need to change how we think of natural coffees.    He believes that despite recent increase in popularity, they are still underrated and underpriced. Diaz, a coffee researcher with three decades of experience and a PhD from the London School of Economics, has been looking into the issue for a while.    In natural/dry processing, the flesh of the cherry is removed from the seeds (beans) without the use of water. To do this, the cherries must be laid out in the sun to dry until they reach around 11% moisture conten ..read more

Our Journeys subscription customers we hope go through a 12 month green coffee buying journey with us hence the name of the subscription.  As a rule, we as a company focus on the buying of single origin specialty grade coffee. We tend to focus on coffees that display high complexity of fruity or floral flavor characteristics and as a result roast them lighter to allow these expressive flavors to shine. Darker roasting is akin to using sauce in cooking and in our opinion masks flavor complexity. There is a role for the darker roasting of coffees in the industry but we do n ..read more

You know the feeling. You wake up after a late night, bleary-eyed, and a bit confused. The alarm bell's pinging as you summon the energy to move. Work is pending. The late bells are ringing. Then you remember it. That uplifting aroma of strong coffee beans in the kitchen. Here's your ticket. You brew yourself a cup and take a deep inhale. Your first sip is a tonic. Suddenly, the whole day is before you. You savor the first rays of sunlight as you ponder, 'what is the strongest coffee?' Well, we're here to tell you. Pour yourself a cup and read on. What is the Strongest Coffee? That depends on ..read more

No one is quite sure where coffee was first discovered. However, we do know that it has been around for hundreds of years. And even today, coffee houses and cafes are still centers of socialization and news sharing in many parts of the world. Nowadays, making coffee is a part of the daily morning routine for many people. While it's easiest to buy your coffee premade, this isn't always easily accessible or financially sustainable. Knowing how to brew the perfect cup of coffee is considered by many to be an art form. Making the best coffee requires attention to many details, inclu ..read more

Coffee roasting dates back to the 15th Century. For much of coffee's history, the roasting process has remained the same. Roast the beans until they're dark brown and you're good to go.  Within the last 50 years, coffee roasters have discovered newer roasting methods and techniques that preserves the coffee bean's natural unique flavor profile. Those processes and techniques generally utilize a lighter roasting profile and are typically only used on high quality coffee. You wouldn't want to lightly roast a poor quality coffee bean. A lighter roast exposes what the true nature of the bean ..read more

Modcup December Subscription Box Modcup offers a monthly subscription service to cater for all tastes and all coffee drinkers; from the self-confessed coffee geeks, to burgeoning cuppers, and carafe-chuggers of the world, from single origin offerings from world class farms and estates to traditional Italian and American Diner style roasts  - all can unite with a tailored monthly subscription coffee box that should hold all over with enough coffee for a month. With the modcup monthly subscription, you’ll have exclusive early access to new coffees that find their way to the roastery, giving ..read more

We’re excited to announce modcup curated holiday box sets to our brick-and-mortar and online stores. Just in time for the holidays, these box sets are tailored to specific tastes and offer a fantastic selection of coffees for every kind of coffee drinker . They even come with custom box designs and packaging, a work of art inside and out. Read on below to learn more about them: This is the Modern World ($35): A hat rick of modcup’s staple modern blends, these coffees are roasted on the lighter side and feature some sweet natural coffees. The blends in this box truly exemplify FAC01: Coffee is ..read more

This is Panama. This is Gesha. The story of the world famous Gesha variety of coffee plant is one of hardship and brilliant triumph. In the 1990s, the Peterson family observed a patch of farmland afflicted with leaf rust, or “la roya”, a type of fungus that coats leaves and restricts the level of photosynthesis that can be achieved and results in a slow death of the plant. In an effort to recoup the damages done to the bourbon/typica variants initially lost to the fungus, the Petersons made a critical decision in the eleventh hour to replant Gesha trees native to Ethiopia in previously rust-s ..read more