Serious Coffee. Happy People.
Barefoot Coffee Roasters' entire existence is one thing: Striving for coffee perfection. We haven't reached it yet, but we are enjoying some amazing coffee on the way. Barefoot takes coffee pretty seriously and accepts no compromise in the pursuit of great tasting coffee.
Great Coffee is its own reward.
Great Coffee. Not very fancy or rico-suave but we like it. Barefoot keeps it simple; take great coffee, craft it with pride and passion, treat the whole coffee experience as a culinary art and operate sustainably from top to bottom. That's Barefoot.
Barefoot is a happy little cafe and roastery in the heart of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area. Barefoot's pretty stuck in the old ways of craftsmanship with hands and hearts beating computer chips any day. The Barefoot experience is quality, flavor and passion. Sure, Barefoot has been showered with awards and accolades of late as the Barefoot difference is discovered and shared, but we are true to our roots of great coffee and happy people above all else. We are really serious about coffee and that makes us really happy people. Great coffee, coffee as a culinary art and sustainability.
Apr
28
Making sweet Barefoot coffee love will soon be a whole lot less cramped. As some of you may know the Barefoot coffee team has been working doggedly for the past year on our new Coffee Works roasting and training headquarters. We have battled through rivers of bureaucracy, permit issues, intense lease negotiations, setbacks, city ordinance problems, zoning compliance, air quality board permitting, licensing, negotiating, sacrificing, freaking, stressing and praying.
It has finally paid off. In May 2008 Barefoot Coffee Roasters FINALLY will be moving into our long awaited Coffee Works! All of our coffee roasting, training, offices and staff will be moving there. Of course the Barefoot cafe will still be running strong on Stevens Creek Blvd and all Baristas and cafe teams will stay there.
The Barefoot Coffee Works building is in the heart of downtown San Jose. It is at 76 Sunol st San Jose, CA 95123. View Larger Map Sunol street is just off The Alameda about two blocks from the HP Pavillion and across the street from the new San Jose Whole Foods store opening later this year. It is a beautiful 4,000 square foot two story building. All coffee roasting and production will be out of this gorgeous new facility. And Monica and team will at long last have a true training center with two dedicated espresso machines, multiple espresso grinders, coffee brewers and tons of space to train and practice. Monica will be holding monthly mini jams at the Coffee Works starting in June.
Right now the plan is to move the roasters in the first week of June and start roasting in the new space that week. Wow! And starting June 1st all mail and deliveries should now go to the 76 Sunol st address rather than the cafe.
In the new space instead of stacking two weeks worth of green coffee to the ceiling and having to crawl over it to get anywhere Eugenia and the roasting team will be able to have a few months worth of green coffee on hand. This should greatly reduce the times when we run out of a certain coffee for a few days while waiting for the next delivery because now we finally have space to store it all! You should also notice improved accuracy on your orders due to many new and improved systems going into the new Coffee Works. Eugenia and the production team have been working very hard on building new systems.
The new wholesale phone number of 408-293-7200 will be the main number at the Coffee Works and Our new Customer Builder Stephen Wade will be there to answer the phones and email and help you with coffee questions all day Monday through Friday 8 am to 6 pm.
The entire coffee team at Barefoot Coffee thanks you for your enthusiastic support of great coffee! We are honored to roast such great coffee and to be able to serve such amazing customers. 2008 is the year of the Foot! We love having you as a part of the Barefoot family!
Apr
24
Guatemala
San Jose Ocana
Scored a 91.5!
San Jose Ocana was ranked the #2 coffee in the Guatemala Cup Of Excellence auction. Barefoot Coffee was able to partner with a select buying group to win 2 bags of the mind blowing #2 ranked coffee “San Jose Ocana†from Roberto Sanchez Lazo in the Guatemala Cup of Excellence auction. This is an amazingly fragrant and crystal clean coffee. This coffee received a 91.5 score from the cupping jury. Mouthwatering complex layers of powerfully sweet and bright fruit acidity with pronounced cheery and ripe apricot and toasted almonds. Dessert in your cup.
San Jose Ocana was founded in 1623. Five generations of the Lazo family have worked the farm. Barefoot is very excited to be able to offer this amazing coffee to our customers. We expect this coffee to arrive with in the next 2-3 weeks so stay tuned!
In San José Ocaña, owners promote good relations with workers. In fact, in the middle of last century, they donated land (about 5 CABALLERIAS) for people working in the farm and they founded there what is actually Santa Fe Ocaña county. Quality controls are important in the farm. Visual controls, as well as humidity, fermentation and drying process are part of a daily basis routine. Coffee is wet milled and sun dried in patios. The farm also has de-pulpers, a resettler and a pulp extractor. As all Guatemalan farms, San José Ocaña has beautiful natural resources and natural forests. It also has cows, horses and vegetables.
San José Ocaña is also awarded with Illy Café for its quality. Roberto Sánchez Lazo
Property Characteristics:
Farm: San Jose Ocaña Farmer: Carlos Roberto Sanchez Lazo Y Cdños.
Rank: 2
City: San Juan Sacatepéquez Country: Guatemala
Farm Size: 225.00 Hectares Coffee growing area: 22.00 Hectares Altitude: 1905 masl
Coffee Characteristics:
Variety: Catuai, Borbon
Processing System: Milling Process: Wet, Drying Process: Sun
Lot Size: 40 bags
International Jury Score: 91.50
Cupping Number #: 329
Jury Descriptions: very clean (17), elegant (10), complex (19), sweet (18), spicy (9), intense fruit acidity (13), citric acidity (15), pleasant lingering acidity (18), abundant fruits (16), guava (6), blackberry (10), strawberry, apricot peach finish (8), fresh coffee cherry (12), dark toasted almonds (1), vanilla (13), chocolate, creamy, very fragrant (17), jasmine (11)
Taste the best in the world for only $35 for a 12oz bag.
Change your entire perspective with a single cup.
Barefoot is only roasting this exceptional coffee to order. Email info @ barefootcoffeeroasters.com to sign up to pre order a bag for yourself.
Apr
24
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Andy Newbom, Chief Espresso Officer
Barefoot Coffee Roasters, Inc.
phone: 408-293-7200
email: andy@barefootcoffee.com
or
Susie Spindler Executive Director
Alliance for Coffee Excellence, Inc.
Email: susies@cupofexcellence.org
Phone: 406-542-3509
Bay Area Coffee Roaster selected as judge in
2008 Guatemala Cup of Excellence® competition
Barefoot Coffee Roasters’ Andy Newbom selected as only Bay Area judge of prestigious Cup of Excellence competition in Guatemala May 8th through 12th 2008.
San Jose, CA, April 24th, 2008 – The Cup of Excellence is the most stringent and prestigious coffee competition in the world. Judges are hand selected from coffee professionals around the world. Judging at a Cup Of Excellence competition involves three to four eight hour days of intense and non stop cupping of hundreds of remarkable coffees. To be invited to judge in the Cup of Excellence is a high honor and only a handful of judges are invited each year. Andy Newbom of Barefoot Coffee Roasters has been selected to be a judge for the 2008 Guatemala Cup Of Excellence May 8th through the 12th.
Mr. Newbom will be arriving early to Guatemala on the 6th in order to visit several farmers and mills in Antigua. Joining him in Guatemala City will be Edwin Martinez, owner of Finca Vista Hermosa coffee farm in Huehuetenango which Barefoot Coffee has bought direct from for the last four years. Edwin Martinez is hoping for a repeat of the last few years where their coffee placed in the top ten in the Cup Of Excellence.
“Finca Vista Hermosa produces remarkable coffees and deserves to be in the top.” Expressed Andy Newbom, Barefoot Coffee. “In 2007 Barefoot bought the other half of the Cup of Excellence lot from Finca Vista Hermosa and we fell in love with the amazing flavors and hope to win the Cup Of Excellence lot this year!”
Susie Spindler, executive director of Cup of Excellence anticipates that 2008 will once again bring high average prices for the winning coffees sold at auction. Since its inception in 1999, the price per pound has steadily increased to reach $6.11 in 2007. In just the past four years the average price per pound has increased nearly 75% from $4.56 to $6.11.
“Attention to quality on the part of the growers, coupled with increased competition from buyers around the world has helped Cup of Excellence winning farmers receive more money for their efforts,” added Spindler. In response to the marketplace momentum, the opening price for all auctions will be increased this year.
With its continued success, international jury participation has strengthened as well. To date, juries for most competitions are already full, with waiting lists for some countries.
Since it’s beginnings in 1999, the Cup of Excellence® program has hosted programs in Brazil, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Bolivia and Colombia. The Cup of Excellence program is managed by the non-profit Alliance for Coffee Excellence, Inc, The state of the art Cup of Excellence auction has been managed since 2002 in partnership with CommoditiesOne, a leading software development firm. For more information about the Cup of Excellence program, or to become a member log on to http://www.cupofexcellence.org
The 2008 Cup of Excellence schedule is as follows:
Costa Rica: International Competition April 7-11; Auction May 15.
Nicaragua: International Competition, April 14-18; Auction May 27.
El Salvador: International Competition April 21-25; Auction June 5.
Guatemala: International Competition May 8-12; Auction June 12.
Honduras: International Competition May 19-23; Auction July 8.
Rwanda: International Competition August 25-29; Auction October 14.
Colombia: International Competition Sept. 15-19; Auction October 28.
Bolivia: International Competition October 6-10; Auction November 25.
Barefoot Coffee Roasters, Inc. is a cafe and roastery in the heart of Silicon Valley operating in the old ways of hands-on craftsmanship. While still keeping it simple; taking great coffee, crafting it with pride and passion and treating the whole coffee experience as a culinary art while operating sustainably from top to bottom. The team has been ranked as one of the top four boutique roasters in the nation by Food and Wine Magazine and is the Bay Areas most award winning artisan roaster. Barefoot is an artisan roaster of sustainable coffees including Organic, Fair Trade, Shade Grown, co-op grown, single estates, auction winning lots and relationship coffees. Located at 5237 Stevens Creek Blvd. in Santa Clara, CA (at the corner of Lawrence Expressway). For more information, please call (408) 293-7200, visit www.barefootcoffee.com or simply drop by.
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Apr
18
OH sweet coffee yumminess! The crew at Verve has brought us some delightful Streetlevel Espresso that Barefoot will be serving as our guest espresso this weekend! Come on down and enjoy the flavors of Santa cruz love! Streetlevel will be on bar all Saturday and Sunday till it runs out. SO stop by early!
And Verve will be sharing the love on the coast side with a little single origin espresso love ala our sweet and sticky Ethiopian Forest Limu semi washed coffee. It’s an organic relationship coffee that is loaded with lovely fruit and citrus with a luxurious silky body that is light on the tongue and warms your heart. Buy a little here
So skate down to Verve and get a shot of their Streetlevel and Barefoot’s Limu today.
Apr
16
Found a cool little video mini documentary about the Face of Fair Trade on youtube. Check it out
It was a Santa Clara university film project. Gotta love the crazy tongue out the side pose that crazy guy struck.
Overall it was pretty balanced and reasonable. Some pretty funny quotes.
Apr
14
Mercury Newspaper is holding their annual Best of Silicon Valley awards. Last year Barefoot Coffee made history as the first independent coffee house to win a Best of Award in the history of the voting. But they had to create a new category for us to save their advertiser benefits for the big chains.
Lets all make history again this year and get so many votes that Barefoot Coffee wins again! Get out the vote!
Vote for ALL your favorite local places. If they are not born and raised and exclusively here in Silicon Valley then don’t vote for em. This is the Best of Silicon Valley,not the best of the chains. Break the chain!
You’ve been dying to tell someone about the best Silicon Valley steakhouse or the best spot for free WiFi? Don’t you want to share the name of the bar where you sipped a sublime martini the other night? Or even better, the best place to kennel your dog or take your daughter’s teen posse for her birthday party? Well, here’s your chance to let the world in on your favorite places and things in Silicon Valley. Tell us about the Best in Silicon Valley. Results will be published later this spring.
Name and contact number or e-mail are required (this information will not be published). Only one entry per person. Entrants must be 16 years or older. Voting ends April 21.
vote here
Apr
12
Come on in the coffees fine! For the rest of the month of April Barefoot is offering free ground shipping on any order of coffee over $20. So grab some of the award winning coffees that will make sweet coffee love to your taste buds.
Buy Coffee online now! use promo code “freeitup” at check out to get the free fedex ground shipping.
