Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters

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.

1. We’ve written about instant coffee in India before, but it’s really booming in China.   2. Looking to avoid the burnt taste when using your moka pot? Definitely watch this video.   3. High coffee prices look here to stay.  First it was leaf rust in Latin America , then the Brazil drought and now […]

About a month ago, we received a very sweet but poignant email from one of our customers.  He said he’d tried hot water, then he tried cold water, but that the coffee he ordered from us “just wouldn’t dissolve in...