LoCo Beans® — Fresh Roasted Coffee, Inc.

LoCo News (January 13th) — As we begin 2025 with a cold blast and a couple of snowfalls, we welcome even more the feeling of cozying up with a great cup of coffee. Whether you’re sipping a rich espresso or indulging in a comforting pour-over, we’re here to keep your coffee experience delightful and warm. Here’s to a year filled with warmth, connection, and exceptional brews!

ALL CALL: With the holiday season behind us, we are once again running low on “pillow packs” for packaging/mailing coffee. Giving pillow-packs a second life is a win-win. If you receive any in your next online shipment, or otherwise find them lying around the house, we’ll be most grateful - and put them back into use! [Thank you!]

Also, over the holidays, we received a new crop of the 100% Kona Natural that went through the dried-in-the-fruit “natural” process that created a crisply sweet, low-toned cup with a quiet background of acidity. These beans will be carefully roasted to preserve notes of chocolate, sweet lime, and buttery cashew nut.

Besides the Kona Natural, we have now gotten back in our inventory the Kona Prime, Screen 16+ (washed) coffee that we will be using for the Kona Blends.

- Chau & Paul

P.S. Many customers have brought to our attention that they couldn’t see the Local Pickup option in the Shop page so we have added a new addition to the FAQ page on how to choose Local Pickup .

(To understand the natural process, it helps to be familiar with the two opposite poles of typical coffee processing: washed coffee and natural process. In a washed coffee, the pulp (skin), fruit, and mucilage surrounding the coffee bean are mechanically removed from the coffee cherry after it is picked from the coffee treelet. The remaining seeds within, aka coffee beans, are then washed and fermented in tanks and then dried. In a natural process, coffee is set out in the sun with the skin and flesh of the coffee fruit, also called a coffee “cherry”, still on it. This can impart particular flavors to the bean which some find fruity, complex, and interesting.)