We have 21 different varieties of coffee available for you to enjoy at home. Including two new PT’s Direct Trade Coffee’s from Bolivia. We have the Juan Yujra Micro-lot from Finca Senda Salvaje featuring notes of roasted hazelnuts and brown sugar. The smooth, buttery cup rounds out to a delicate and refreshing sweetness of melon as the coffee cools. The Vicente Baltazar Micro-lot features a creamy body with notes of gentle honey, caramel, and a juicy acidity. The cup rounds out with a delicate jonagold apple sweetness as it cools.
Our current featured brew is also roasted by PT’s Coffee and is from the Tarrazu region of Costa Rica. La Candelilla Estate consists of 9 small coffee producers working together to produce their harvest. The pickers at La Candelilla Estate take special care to ensure they only harvest cherries at 100% ripeness. The cherries are brought back to be pulped, washed and processed. The coffee is then set out on drying patios to be sun dried, until the proper moisture content has been reached in the drying process. This coffee has a very nice aroma, hinting at caramel, chocolate and almonds. The cup has a mild acidity and a well balanced body with notes of caramel, gentle cedar and a soft melon sweetness.
We have five coffees from Copper Canyon Coffee Roasters in Springfield, Mo available for you to take home. Our current Copper Canyon selection includes the Sumatra Black Satin, Costa Rica, Matagalpa, Rwanda, and the Swiss Water Processed Sumatra Decaf. All of these coffees are Fair Trade Certified and Organic.
At Dancing Mule we enjoy offering a wide selection of retail coffee. We are happy to talk coffee and help you select the right one for you. We can also offer suggestions on getting the most out of your coffee brewing experience at home. We can always order any of the coffee available from PT’s or Copper Canyon for you if we don’t have your favorite.
Many businesses claim they are serving specialty coffee. Specialty coffee is often defined as the top 10 percent of coffee available in the world. Let’s talk numbers.
The J.M. Smucker Company bought the Folgers brand in 2008. It has been a very successful acquisition for the company. Smuckers gross revenue in 2010 was $4.6 billion. Folgers is the number 1 store brand of coffee in the United States. The Folgers brand accounted for approximately 40 percent of Smucker’s sales in 2010 or about $1.8 billion. The Folgers brand family also includes Millstone and a 25-year agreement to provide coffee for Dunkin’ Donuts. Dunkin’ Donuts sales were $276 million of the total, making Dunkin’ donuts the number 2 “specialty” store brand behind Starbucks.
Speaking of Big Green (Starbucks), it has around 11,000 stores in the United States and 17,009 stores worldwide. Starbucks sales were $10.71 billion in 2010. Starbucks bought 269,000,000 pounds of coffee in 2010.
McDonald’s by comparison has 32,000 stores worldwide, 13,700 stores in the United States and $24 billion in sales. McDonald’s sells coffee in addition to burgers – about 500 million cups per year.
Why have we thrown all these numbers at you? The coffee that Dancing Mule serves, roasted by PT’s Coffee, is not available in enough quantity to provide the big boys (J.M. Smuckers, Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks, McDonalds) with coffee for a day. PT’s sold approximately 205,000 pounds in 2009, and PT’s primarily buys coffee from small farms in small lots. One of their recent micro-lots from Hawaii was 210 pounds and sold out in two weeks.
PT’s develops direct trade relationships with coffee farmer’s that benefit the farmer by giving them a better price for their hard work and benefit PT’s by allowing them to source the top 1 percent of coffee available in the world. For more information about PT’s Direct Trade policies you can go here: http://www.ptscoffee.com/education/direct_trade_coffee.php.
For more information and a longer discussion of the definition of specialty coffee check out this article http://www.scaa.org/?page=RicArtp1 by Ric Rhinehart the Executive Director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America titled “What is Specialty Coffee?”
Having the best coffee available is only a starting point to providing truly special coffee. The coffee must be prepared and served correctly. The fact that there is only one Dancing Mule is a huge advantage over large coffee chains in regards to serving quality coffee.
We don’t have to make our coffee taste the same in 17,009 stores! We are a locally owned family business with daily management and involvement by the owner’s of the business. To sum it all up, Dancing Mule is Stubborn About Great Coffee.
We are now serving Harney and Sons Tea – Unique and Uncommon – in eight different varieties including Organic English Breakfast Tea, Hot Cinnamon Spice, Rooiboos Chai, Mint Verbena, Dragon Pearl Jasmine, Organic Green with Mint, Organic Green, and White Vanilla Grapefruit.
This is an all day coffee, settle in with the newspaper or a good book and sip away the day.
Story:
Finca Santa Isabel is located in the Department of Santa Rosa, about 60k southeast of Guatemala City. The farm is organic and Rainforest Alliance Certified. In 2004 Santa Isabel experienced a widespread disease on their coffee plants. After extensive research, the Keller Family (Martin and Alex) decided the only way to rejuvenate the farm was to implement organic agriculture techniques.
The highest area of the property is a protected natural reserve, where there are many diverse plant and animal species. Biodiversity and sustainability are key components in the production of Santa Isabel’s coffee.
Each coffee cherry at Santa Isabel is carefully selected, handpicked and then sorted, guaranteeing a consistent and high quality product. This is a beautifully sweet coffee, with nuances of roasted almonds and cedar and a long finish of bakers chocolate. This is a delicious cup!
Decaf coffee is not a second rate citizen at Dancing Mule Coffee.
Our decaf brewed coffee is PT’s Swiss Water Processed Cascadia Organic Blend. A deep and earthy coffee with a hint of cocoa. The Swiss Water Process method of removing caffeine from coffee uses only water instead of chemicals. Decaf coffee drinkers are true coffee lovers because they enjoy the flavor and not the jolt. If you avoid caffeine for health reasons, or just because you want to enjoy a cup of coffee with a pastry in the evening and still be able to sleep, our decaf coffee and espresso is a nice alternative. Try a cup fresh brewed today at Dancing Mule Coffee.
