Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters

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...

Customers are constantly asking us whether they should store their coffee in a fridge or freezer, or if their coffee is going to get spoilt in the summer heat. If you’re amongst the large group of coffee lovers curious about...

Following up on our earlier blog post on water and coffee, we did an experiment to gauge how much your water affects the flavor of the final brew. We brewed the same coffee using the same recipe and equipment but only varied...

How important is the water when you brew a cup of coffee? The water you use is integral to the way your coffee tastes. It changes every characteristic of your coffee - possessing the ability to make it less or...

When I tell my family and friends where I work, I expect questions about roasting and what a roasterie is, but what I tend to hear a lot is: “What’s ‘tokai’?” “Is it an English word?” “Did your boss make...

When we ventured out to meet the farms that we wanted to work with, we were struck by the farms' natural lush beauty, their complex biodiversity as well as the incredible amount of work that goes into each step of...

Source: Coffee Fish Roastery After a long hiatus, the coffee links are back!   Nitrogen, cold brew.  We will definitely be doing this when we open our new space.   Can't say we liked the coffee, but the Indian Coffee...

We're excited to be featured as part of Bhane Love series.  The fantastic team at Dear spent a few days with us at the roastery to create this video:  Friends of bhane. - Blue Tokai from bhane. on Vimeo.

Another product with an eye on design – the Viora Lid does not disappoint. We knew Silicon Valley was crazy for its coffee, but this takes thing to a slightly different level. This carefullly designed coffee cup lid heightens the aroma of the coffee. Given the importance of aroma for the coffee drinking experience, we […]

In local news, white stem borer be damned, India looks poised for a record coffee harvest. We touched on this last time, but this neat map of the world displays the popularity of instant versus brewed coffee. The most shocking country on there? Australia.