Brown County Beanery

The secret to an excellent cup of coffee is to start with a consistent source of great green coffee beans. And the best way to do this is to have exclusive right to the production of a coffee estate. Well as of April 2008 we do! Many roasters brag about the multi-origin beans they sell, they have a bag of "this" or a bag of "that". They buy and mix yearly crops with no regard for region, estate, crop dates, etc. Since they do not know where the actual birthplace of their product is, you sort of get a lower quality consistency, mixed breed product. After all most coffee growing countries are pretty big, and coffees from different regions within the country naturally have different characteristics. To disguise or color this fact other roasters try to impress you with a geography lesson about what exotic places their beans came from. When you buy your coffee at one of these "worldly roasters", you quite simply are buying a coffee without much stable pedigree. Imagine a winery that buys it grapes on the open market. Most roasters do exactly this! We are different because we get all our coffees from one source. When we originally started buying our coffee from Columbia in 2007, we were using an exclusive coffee importer who assisted us in importing some great coffee. However, always in quest of a better and more consistent (read exclusive) source we have acquired the production of a 13 Hectare (approximately 26 acres) coffee estate in Cienga Vereda Columbia which is located in the Magdalena region of the country, in the Siera Nevada de Santa Marta Mountains.. At an altitude of over 1400 meters, and with all the right soil conditions “La Nueva Esperanza” or "The New Hope" produces a fantastic coffee with superb cupping characteristics. Since the production is exclusively ours and since we buy the entire lot you are assured that we sell the same fantastic coffee all year round. The cup we offer is the same in the fall as it was in the spring. Our coffees also have a passport, but how many roasters actually grow , import and roast their coffee? Not many, BUT WE DO! Come in and try a cup!

Well we screen it and make an individual bag quality check. We review approximately 200-300 beans per bag and check for the "defects" (that's coffee insider talk for non-conforming beans or foreign matter). We make sure that only fresh new crop certified specialty green coffee beans go into our roaster, and hence into your cup. We then straight type roast or blend them amongst types for delicious character combinations. We roast them skillfully and then we give that fresh roasted excellence to you. We only roast what you order and what we can sell in a few days. Our coffee is always fresh!

Below you can see the coffee tree with the green berries, and then the ripened fruit.

Once ripe, the red berries are picked hand on our farm, La Nueva Esperanza. All of our green coffee comes from this estate which is a smaller estate, with only 8 arable acres, at an altitude of 1400 meters in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Mountains of Columbia. The berries are then air dried in an open-air stone patio, fermenting ever so slightly as they dry and once dried and sorted they are packed in the quintessential burlap coffee bag. Then they begin their journey from Columbia to the Port of Miami and then to us in Nashville, Indiana. We control every step to assure you satisfaction. When stored properly the green coffee beans will keep for a long time depending on the storage method used. A cool, humidity controlled location is best. Add to that the peace and transquility of Brown County, Indiana and you have all the elements to keep a great green coffee bean happy! A great coffee is characterized by it's roasted body or cup characteristics, and all this is determined by the origin of the bean. A beautiful, fresh green coffee bean is hard and lightly glossy with a uniform color and no dark spots. These are the only kinds of beans we roast. In fact it smells of harvested alfalfa. Come on in and see us in Nashville, Indiana, we have some to show you, let you taste and decide. We are "coffee" in Nashville, Indiana!