How to choose Local Pickup from the Shop Page?

It has been brought to our attention that many customers can’t seem to find the Local Pickup option when finished with shopping. So here are the instructions:

1. In the Shop page, choose the coffee you want to buy, grind size, quantity then click the Add To Cart button. Repeat this process until you’re ready to check out.

2. When you click the Checkout button, you will be presented with the Order Summary page where you can see the Apple Pay or Credit Card buttons.

3. Proceed with either option and you will go to the next page where you will see a Method option where you can choose Flat Rate Shipping or Store/Local Pickup.

Do you sell coffee in cups?

I’m afraid not. We’re not licensed to offer brewed coffee.

What was that building used for?

We fondly refer to it as a “silo,” but we’re pretty sure it was originally a water tank from the steam engine railroad days of yore.

Should I choose Whole or Ground?

It’s generally best to grind coffee beans right before brewing (to limit the beans’ exposure to oxygen), but not all grinders are created equal. We gently recommend using a burr grinder for consistent particulate size optimized to your brewing method.

What’s the best coffee that you have?

We get asked this question a lot so here’s our attempt at an answer.

There are literally thousands of choices when it comes to choosing good coffee beans. But these 3 simple questions should help you in making your decision:

1) Where should you buy your coffee beans?

From a local roaster who can supply high-quality, fresh roasted product and who cares about coffee. When we say fresh roasted, we mean the coffee was just roasted days before - not months before.

2) What’s your brewing method?

How one brews the coffee greatly influences which beans you can choose. Here are some good places to start:

• Brewing with a French press? Look for something medium to dark roast for a full bodied brew. ex: House Blend, Kona Blend.

• Pour over coffee lover? Since you won’t be adding milk, look for a nice, exotic single origin bean with flavor notes that excite you. ex: Brazilian, Colombian, Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, Kenyan Thangathi, Sumatran Mandheling.

• Coffees used for espresso have traditionally been blends of two, three, or even four coffees. By blending coffees, we are able to make espresso more approachable and consistent, but the focus is still on the positive flavors. ex: Espresso Grande, +3dB Blend.

  LoCo Beans also offers single origin espressos from smaller lots. Here’s where the fun starts as single origins really showcase the diverse but unique flavor landscape of the coffee region. ex: Colombian, Ethiopian Yirgacheffe.

3) What Flavors Are You Seeking?

Some coffee lovers seek wine-like floral-y filter coffee flavor profiles, while others want a full-bodied, earthy and strong “coffee that tastes like coffee” that allows for the addition of milk.

What’s decaf coffee?

Most decaf coffees are produced by a Swiss Water Process, a patented decaffeination method that uses only water to remove 99.9% of a coffee’s caffeine content.

The Swiss Water method uses no chemicals whatsoever, whereas many other decaffeination methods employ the use chemical solvents like methylene chloride and ethyl acetate.

What’s washed vs natural processed vs honey coffee processing?

Natural coffee processing is one of the world’s oldest methods and is favored by many coffee growers. What sets it apart from other methods is that entire coffee cherries are dried, with the beans still attached to the rest of the fruits, causing a fermentation process to occur and impart natural sugars and fruit flavors to the beans.

Honey coffee processing is something of a mix between the washed and natural methods. Once the coffee cherries have been picked, they are de-pulped, but then left out to dry without having the mucilage removed.

Unlike natural processing, the washed method involves removing each part of the coffee cherries from the beans, by first putting them through a de-pulping machine and then placing them in a fermentation tank, before the drying.

Naturally processed coffees have distinctive flavors, which are often the subject of debate amongst specialty coffee lovers and baristas alike. Because a certain level of fermentation is bound to occur as a result of the coffee beans drying whilst attached to the rest of the cherries, the sugars and flavors of the fruits merge with the natural notes of the seeds. As well, the cost on the environment is much lower when using the natural coffee process, because there is less reliance on water and energy usage, and equipment and machinery.