Look, we get it. Making your coffee by the cup makes your morning SO much easier, so how about you meet us halfway? Instead of drinking bad coffee out of something you throw into a landfill, how about you drink great coffee out of something you can throw into a dishwasher? Check the video below and streamline your morning the right way!
Videography & Film Production: Sea Stand Productions
Look, we'll put it simply: If you properly brew coffee with a Chemex, then your coffee will taste awesome, and you will look super cool while brewing it. Thanks to our friends at Sea Stand Productions, you can watch this instructional video and learn how to perfectly use a Chemex Coffee Maker.
Our director of coffee breaks down just how you should be using that AeroPress of yours in a few easy steps!
Holy Cow! canyoustayfordinner.com released this excellent recipe for cinnamon-sugar crusted coffee cake muffins, which has to be the best 6 word combination we've ever heard!
Their recipe creates 12 of these bad boys, which are described as tasting like old fashioned donuts. As you know, we loooove donuts! Andie's original recipe brings out coffee cake flavor, but does not call for coffee; we tweaked it a bit by adding a tablespoon of our Raos Decaf, so that we could enjoy it any hour of the day.
For full baking instructions, head to Can You Stay for Dinner's website by clicking here.
(via Golden State Warriors Instagram)
Suckas? NOPE!
Splash Brothas? YUP
We're pretty stoked about the Warriors making it to the NBA finals for the first time in 40 years so we have a special deal in honor of their championship run!
While the Dubs look to bring rings back to the Bay, our customers will get a FREE 1/2 pound of our Golden State blend with ANY order from our web store! This special only lasts while the Warriors are in the Finals race so get your coffee now!
We ship our 1 pound bags of fresh coffee all over the U.S.A., U.S. Territories and Canada, so we are excited to launch our first Locals Only project, exclusive to Sacramento.
Allow us to introduce you to our cold brew, Bold Crew! (See what we did there?)
Starting June 8th you can sign up for Bold Crew delivery, where we will drop off a 64 oz growler of delicious cold brewed coffee on your doorstep each week, milk man style!
This summer's Bold Crew is a 50/50 blend of our Colombia El Mango and Ethiopia Aricha, coffees that respectively recieved 93 and 94 ratings from Coffee Review! The coffees are brewed with 100ppm water over 16 hours, ensuring a silky smooth drink that brings both fruity aroma and refreshment. You'll be able to enjoy it growler after growler, all summer long.
the delivery process will officially launch on June 20th, with more details to come. Sign-up for our newsletter for the most up-to-the-moment details on how you can join Sacramento's Bold Crew.
For Foodie Tuesday we put together a well-rounded cheese dip featuring a wide variety of flavors that blend better than you could imagine!
To start, you'll need to grate 1/2 a pound of sharp cheddar cheese. Place the cheese into an oven safe pan, then add half a pound of cream cheese. This would be a good point to preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
Mix the two cheeses together then add a pint of fresh blueberries. Fold the blueberries into the cheese with a spoon until well mixed.
Now we're working with a lot of intense cheese here, so we added a tablespoon of our chocolatey Raos Decaf coffee to help balance and tame the strong flavors. Everything blended beautifully! If you make this dip be sure to tag any pictures with #howiseasons!
Before the oven
Sara over at reclaimingyourcastle.com put together a master list of homemade coffee creamers that just can't be beat. For Foodie Tuesday, we've decided to highlight some of the tastiest ones.
Sara recommends you start with 14oz of sweetened condensed milk, then add 1 3/4 cup of milk or cream as your base. The more fat, the more creaminess; so, you can choose your preference from whole to skim to almond or flax! Be sure to use your creamer by your milk's expiration date. Once you've made your base, you can then add the ingredients below to make excellent coffee creamer!
In all of these recipes, anything that has a dry or thick ingredient (like cinnamon or honey) should be heated up with a small amount of your milk/cream from the base recipe so it can dissolve properly.
Head to reclaimingyourcastle.com for the complete list ;)
French Vanilla Creamer
Vanilla Bean Coffee Creamer
Chocolate
Irish Cream
Samoa (like the Girl Scout Cookies)
Chocolate Hazelnut
Brush your croutons with some honey, then add some ground coffee and sea salt. Bake at 300 degrees for about 20 minutes or until ready.
We had a small cut of leftover gluten free bread from Pushkin's Bakery and we decided to turn it into some croutons for a steak salad. Once we got the croutons lined up we brushed them with honey and sprinkled on some of our Ethiopia Konga, a lighter roast with balanced berry sweetness. We then added some ground up sea salt. Both the honey and the coffee can go a long way, so less is more with this recipe.
We got home a little exhausted from launching our company the day before, but were still inspired by the goodness that is Star Wars Day.
This recipe was quick and easy, and the thickness of the coconut milk made it super easy to throw ground coffee and cocoa powder on top of the drink, so how could we resist laying down a Rebel Alliance Starbird?
Editor's Note: This post was written on May 4th. Our free coffee sample promotion ended several months ago. We apologize for any inconvenience! Do NOT send us your street address. Thanks!
-Greg Cotta
Director of Marketing
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We’re Seasons Coffee Roasters, and we would like to announce to the public that we are officially open for business as of today, May 4th.
Seasons Coffee Roasters is a web-based premier specialty coffee subscription service based in Sacramento, California. We roast the world's finest coffees, and deliver them to your doorstep one fresh pound at a time.
We have over a decade of experience in specialty coffee, and we have the wealth of knowledge, resources and connections to ensure your seasonal coffee is always fresh and excellent. “We are beyond excited to launch this new, web-based concept here in Sacramento,” said Benza Cox Lance, founder of Seasons Coffee. “Sacramento is a city that has proven its love for specialty coffee time and time again. Our goal is to make sure your first cup of coffee every morning is perfect, and I believe our city is going to be a big help toward making that happen.”
We provide our subscribers with single source origin coffees, and we rotate our coffee selection with the seasons, hence our name. We will also provide 4 consistent house blends that range from light and tea-like to dark and chocolatey. No matter how you enjoy your coffee at home, we’re your answer.
Subscribers receive their fresh pound of specialty coffee once a week, every other week, or once a month. Once you order your coffee, you can decide it you want it whole bean or we can grind your coffee for you free of charge.
If you aren’t sold yet, we offer free 2 oz samples of our coffee through our website, seasonscoffee.us. If you want to try a sample of our coffee, all we need is your email address to confirm, and your street address so we know where to send it.
Feel free to reach out to us on any of our social media platforms for anything at all. We love questions!
We want your first cup of coffee in the morning to be perfect, so the customization of your order is really important to us. So when we started brainstorming on how to make sure your coffee comes the way you like, we realized all of you probably don't want the same thing. Some of you love grinding your own coffee every morning, while some of you don't own a bean grinder and keep a spoon in your coffee bag so that you don't have to keep washing it. Either way, it's all good and we've got you covered.
Once you become a subscriber, you can order your coffee either whole bean, or one of three grind options, fine, medium, or coarse. This will not change the price in any way, and is our gift to you. We've put together an infographic with our grind recommendations based on the various ways to make coffee, but, as always, the choice is yours.
For Foodie Tuesday this week we made some tahini coconut date cups!
Start off your kitchen session with a half cup of melted coconut oil, half a cup of tahini, a teaspoon of cinnamon, and an optional date (for sweetness). Blend it all together in a food processor. If you added the date, blend until date is no longer chunky.
Once the initial mix is made, pour 1/2 of your tahini coconut blend and pour it into six muffin tin cups. Place the tin flat in your fridge for 15-20 minutes, or until the cups have solidified.
As your cups cool in the fridge, set aside your leftover tahini coconut mix — you’re gonna need it later.
Now you’re going to make 2/3 cup of bold coffee (We used our Ethiopia Aricha because of its fruity aromas and chocolatey finish!) and 2/3 cup of mashed, pitted dates. You can also add an optional tablespoon of butter for extra creaminess.
Blend these ingredients together in a separate container. Once the coconut tahini mix has solidified in the fridge, add a spoonful of the coffee date blend to the middle of each cup. Make sure to leave some space around the edges of the cup.
Now head back to your tahini mix and pour it over the the coffee dates. Your cups will come out a bit prettier if you flatten the date cream mix before adding the top coating.
Place the tin back in the fridge for another 20-25 minutes until everything is solidified and you’re done! If you're strong enough to skip the tablespoon of butter, you've just made yourself a raw, grain-free, vegan snack!
We're getting settled into our Midtown Sacramento warehouse, preparing four the May 4th launch of our specialty coffee web market.
