Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters

Through these distressing times, while we help our community and family, it is important not to feel overwhelmed and take care of ourselves to manage COVID-related anxieties. Daily rituals and routines have the ability to make us feel more centered and...

With the summer heat rolling in, here are some of our favourite Cold Brew recipes that you can easily recreate in your kitchen using our Cold Brew Bags. Read on to spruce up your coffee breaks! Cold Brew Spritzer  The...

This is a bittersweet moment for us since we're excited to launch our fifth lot of the Producer Series but sad that it concludes our most innovative coffee offerings from our 2020 harvest.  We're closing our 2020 Producer Series with Ratnagiri Estate once...

Our Producer Series started with the idea to not only bring the rarest Indian coffees to you, but to also celebrate the producers who envisioned and brought these experimental coffees to life.  We’re excited to be featuring Ratnagiri Estate once...

We started this series to celebrate some of the most visionary coffee producers in India who put experimenting with different processing techniques at the forefront of their work. We couldn’t have imagined the outpouring of love we’ve received for this...

Our Producer Series is a celebration of our coffee producers’ commitment to innovation and quality and we’re so thankful for the love you’ve shown to the first coffee in the series! We’re aware that many of you missed the opportunity...

This series celebrates our highest scoring coffees grown on nano lots, created by some of India's most visionary producers experimenting with innovative processing techniques. All of our unique, limited edition coffees are lightly roasted to preserve and highlight their beautiful fruity notes....

Coffee starts its journey as the seeds of the flowering Coffea plant. These seeds or ‘green’ beans have none of the characteristics of the roasted coffee beans. They are hard and have a grassy smell. However, when green beans are roasted, they undergo many chemical changes. In a tightly controlled environment, they are heated to very high and very precise temperatures and then rapidly cooled the moment they reach the desired roast level.

Understanding grind sizes can go a long way in helping you achieve the perfect cup of coffee. Brewing coffee using the wrong grind size is one of the most common reasons why your coffee tastes bad.

I was fortunate enough to be invited as the international speaker at the Czech Coffee Week, held in Brno at the start of October.  The conference portion was held over the weekend and included a coffee market where roasters from...