Why does our gourmet coffee taste so much better than regular store bought coffee? Simple!

  We Use Only 100% Arabica Beans

At The Gourmet Coffee Club we use only hand-picked, 100% Arabica beans grown at elevations between 3,000 & 6,000 feet above sea level, where the hot, moist climate produces the most flavorful bean on earth. Hand-picked, much like grapes for fine wines, just as they become fully ripened, Arabica beans are then dried, sorted and graded according to color, size, and uniformity.

Most name-brand commercial coffees are made from blends of robusta beans which are grown at lower elevations. To save labor at harvest time they are usually allowed to ripen until they fall from the plant, often beginning to spoil as they lie on the ground waiting to be gathered. The coffee you buy at your local grocery store is made largely from robusta beans.

Because of the meticulous "hands-on" technique used to grow and harvest Arabica beans, they have always cost outrageously more for you the coffee drinker -- until now. By becoming a member of The Gourmet Coffee Club today, you're able to purchase the world's best coffee direct from the roaster - for only pennies per cup!

 Unique Roasting Process

A unique feature of The Gourmet Coffee Club is in the way we roast our coffee. Unlike other name brand coffees you buy at your local grocery store, we don't MASS produce our coffee. We could purchase beans that are one or even two years old and significantly reduce our price. But, this sacrifices quality. Instead, we only purchase coffee from the current growing season. Our coffee beans are then roasted in small batches using a high quality specialty roaster - the best in the business - to ensure that each and every bean is completely and uniformly roasted. The net result to you is the richest and smoothest cup of coffee you've ever tasted!

 Unique Packaging

In addition to best and freshest beans... and besides using the most careful our small-lot roasting process... we also use a unique process in packaging our ground gourmet coffee. Each packet of our gourmet coffee is sealed within minutes of roasting by a special packaging system that employs state-of-the-art nitrogen flushing technology. By flushing the individual foil mylar packets with nitrogen the oxygen is removed before the ground bean is packaged. This technique gives the coffee a "freshness" period that can last up to one full year!

 Freshest Coffee Possible

Ideally, for the maximum flavor, you should roast, grind and brew your coffee in the same day. This is, of course, impractical unless you own your own roasting operation! From the time our beans are picked, roasted, ground and put on our shelf not more than 60 days has passed! That means by the time our gourmet coffee hits your front door you know it was packed not more than 7 days ago! As a member of The Gourmet Coffee Club you know you'll be drinking the freshest cup of coffee possible - without having to pick and roast it yourself!


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