Coffee
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Pay-as-you-go Subscription
From: $19.00 / week and a $19.00 sign-up feeNot sure which coffee to pick? Let us pick for you and we’ll cover the cost of shipping. Join our Roaster’s Choice Pay-as-you-go Coffee Subscription and receive a beautiful selection of our coffees as often and as ample as needed. The subscription will rotate among all our coffees. Most will be our single origin selections from around the world. If you have taste preferences, just include them in the “notes” section of the checkout page and we can adjust your coffee subscription to your desired profile.
For example, you can specify options in the notes like:
“Single origin only”
“This is a gift, don’t send until June 18”
“I like blends”
“Penrose only”
“I like it bright.”
“I usually add milk to my coffee.”The “sign-up fee” is a deposit on your last bag of coffee. If you cancel your subscription, we’ll send you a final bag of coffee without charging your card. Therefore, you’re only committing to two bags of coffee. Tell us to stop or change frequency anytime through the “my account” page.
Price includes shipping when you select “BPC Flat Rate” at checkout.
Looking to gift a subscription or prepay for the whole thing? Try out our prepaid subscriptions.
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Finca Tamana
$20.50 – $41.00This is the third harvest we’ve purchased from Elias Roa Parra’s Finca Tamana. His work with Tim Wendelboe is an outstanding model of the quality that occurs with improvements focused on fundamentals. Elias and Tim focus on crop nutrition, picking, harvesting, pulping, fermentation, and drying controls. Crop nutrition is the foundation of efficiency for farmers. Removing defects during picking increases the overall quality of the final lot. Defects can originate at the plant and contribute to loss of yield and diminished quality.
Harvesting and hand-sorting are the first human-controlled sorting phases in the process. Elias negotiated quality standards with the workers that live in the area to individually float the harvest and remove beans with visible color, ripeness, or pest defects. This is a meticulous addition to the process and requires a significant investment in labor to have it done well. Once this is completed, the next step is to remove the skin and pulp through pulping and fermentation. Both pulping and fermentation can contribute to diminish quality if not managed well, but if managed well it can be a source of improvement.
Elias maintains very clean equipment and fermentation tanks to manage consistency. Plus, he uses a fermentation and cleaning method where the coffee is fermented overnight and washed twice, improving the cleanliness of the coffee and cup. Drying is a preservation stage for storage and transport, but it is also a very important quality phase where temperature, humidity, and sun exposure can influence the stability and cup quality. Elias uses 50% shade to keep drying temps down.
Team taste notes: toffee, nougat, grape, apple, pear, brown spice
- Country:
- Colombia
- Region:
- El Pital, Huila
- Altitude:
- 1700 – 1800 MASL
- Process:
- Washed
- Varieties:
- Colombia, Castillo
- Harvest:
- June – July 2018
- Exporter:
- Fairfield Trading
- Sourcing Partners:
- Elias Roa Parra (farmer), Fairfield Training (Exporter), CCS (importer)
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Nariño Select
$15.00 – $30.00Geography has contributed to the regional personality and the taste characteristics of the coffee grown in Nariño. The steep mountains and deep canyons of the Andes mountain range move through this region. The section that moves through Nariño is know for its beauty and extremes. The steep, craggy mountains and canyons provided both a natural barrier for the Incan Empire from invaders from the north and also influenced the distinct flavor of coffee grown in this region.
Nariño is located in southwest of Colombia along the border with Ecuador. In the south of Colombia, the Andes are know as the Nudo de Los Pastos. The mountains have provided seclusion to Nariño that has allowed the cultures of the region to maintain their heritage and customs, such as the old language, Quiche, and a unique wood crafting style.
The geography of this region also contributes to the unique coffee taste of Nariño. To begin with, Nariño is near the equator, which provides predictable and intense sunlight. The mountains of Nariño are also very high and steep. This altitude would prevent some growing regions from producing coffee due to freezing, but Nariño is able to prevent freezing due to the thermal transitions that occur in the evenings. During the day the sun is able to reach deep into the mountains due to the latitude. The craggy mountains and canyons absorb the sun’s heat throughout the day. In the evening, the heat, stored up in valley below, rises to prevent freezing. This unique dynamic, high altitudes, and a temperature range that supports slow and even development encourages higher sugar content development and sweet acidity.
Team taste notes: orange cream, juicy body, dark chocolate, nutty, brown sugar, caramel, baking spice
- Country:
- Colombia
- Region:
- Nariño
- Altitude:
- 1200 – 2100 MASL
- Process:
- Washed
- Varieties:
- Colombia, Castillo, Tabi
- Harvest:
- December 2018 – January 2019
- Sourcing Partner:
- Café Imports (importer)
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Boma
$20.00 – $40.00Boma, Kenya marks the return of Kenyan single origin coffee to our offerings at Blueprint. Our importing partners, Royal N.Y., sent us fresh harvest samples just a few weeks ago. Boma stood out on the cupping table with its complex acidity and sweetness. So, we secured the coffee and now offer it as one of our fantastic single origin coffees.
BOMA
Boma Farmers Cooperative Society sits in Kericho County. The county is located west of the Rift Valley and between the Mau Forest and Lake Victoria. Over 470 members comprise Boma. Women farmers make up over half of the membership.
In Kenya, the Nairobi Coffee Exchange is lauded for the quality, prices, and reputation Kenya has established through out the world. It deserves this reputation, but it comes at a cost to smallholder farmers. This system favors the interests of the auction system. As a result, the percentage of cash return to the farmers drops. Our importer, Royal Coffee NY states, “In 1975 an individual Kenyan farmer could expect to reap around 30% of the auction price, by the year 2000 the figure was 10%.”
Due to the growing disenfranchisement of smallholder farmers, the Kenyan Government established the “Second Window.” It seeks to open direct trade lines with importers and exporters. The “Second Window” accomplishes this goal by allowing private farmers to establish cooperatives and export their own coffee. One cooperative established as a result of the new regulations is Kenya Cooperative Coffee Exporters (KCCE). KCCE was formed in 2009 to establish a platform to market their coffee and sell direct to buyers. The Boma Farmers Cooperative Society is a shareholder in this organization. As of this year KCCE has become the second largest exporter of Kenyan coffee.
TEAM TASTE NOTES
brown sugar, chocolate, cherry, black tea, nut, orange, spices, peach, blackberry, plum, lime
- Country:
- Kenya
- Region:
- Kericho County
- Altitude:
- 1960 MASL
- Process:
- Washed
- Varietal:
- SL28 & SL34
- Harvest:
- Dec. 2018 - Feb. 2019
- Sourcing Partners:
- Royal N.Y. (importer)
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Single Origin Sampler
$42.00 – $460.00Can’t decide which coffee to try? Why not try all of our single origin coffees. Our single origin sampler features three of our single origin coffees. It’s a great way to experience the variety of flavors available from different origins or reward the coffee lover in your life.
Prepay for 3, 6, or 12 months and save.
Each box includes:
• (3) bags of single origin coffee, weighing 8oz. each.
• (1) screen-printed box
• (3) cut sheets that include information about each of the coffees
Price includes shipping. Whole bean coffee only. If you’d like to start a sampler box subscription, but would rather pay month-to-month, visit our single origin sampler subscription page.
- Country:
- Varies - 3 bags per box
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Tektōn v.16
$16.50 – $33.00TEKTŌN
The seasonal and transparent coffee blend, Tektōn, chases a difficult goal – maintaining complexity while remaining approachable. Tektōn satisfies the novice or experienced coffee lover. Regular coffee changes throughout the year maintain balance and seasonality.
We commit ourselves to exhibiting the qualities of one of the most flavorful beverages in the world. To do so, we create and construct balanced, intoxicating, and special flavor experiences. Our single origin offerings are delicious and complete by themselves, but blending creates something new and unique. French wine and cocktails, like the Sazerac, guide us. By adding a small amount of five ingredients (sugar, bitters, lemon, absinthe, ice), a serving of whiskey becomes a new experience. This is a different, yet delicious, taste experience than that offered by any neat pour.
Tektōn, a seasonal coffee blend, compliments our single origin offerings. It matches the integrity of those offerings by remaining a seasonal coffee with a transparent supply chain. We embrace the future insight and taste experiences Tektōn will provide.
Version 16 blends bright and sweet coffees from Colombia and Rwanda. As a result, it features a bit more spunk than the last few versions. Nariño Select, from the high mountains of southern Colombia, makes up 72% of the blend. Ejo Heza from Rwanda makes up the rest. Theses coffees, both washed, offer a good deal of complexity. When blended, they offer brown sugar and vanilla sweetness with citrus acidity.
TEAM TASTE NOTES (v16)
graham, malt, brown sugar, citrus, jammy, cereal, brown roast, honey, caramel, banana, apple
- Country 72%:
- Colombia
- Producer 72%:
- Small-holder farmers
- Region 72%:
- Nariño
- Process 72%:
- Washed
- Sourcing Partner 72%:
- Café Imports (importer)
- Country 28%:
- Rwanda
- Producer 28%:
- Ejo Heza
- Region 28%:
- Rutsiro
- Process 28%:
- Washed
- Sourcing Partner 28%:
- Ejo Heza (farmer group)
- Sourcing Partner 28%:
- Kopakama (cooperative)
- Sourcing Partner 28%:
- Artisan Coffee Imports (importer)
- Varieties:
- Castillo, Colombia, Tabi, Bourbon, Jackson
- Harvest:
- April 2018 – January 2019
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Penrose V.21
$15.50 – $31.00PENROSE
Penrose, named after the triangle, is our seasonal espresso blend. We feel the perfect espresso is an impossible goal, but we still strive to create it. Penrose is our ever-updated offering in the quest for the perfect espresso. While the seasonal components will vary throughout the year, it is always (nearly) perfect for your hopper.
Penrose seasonal espresso blend aims to:
- be a reliable and consistent offering
- be delicious with milk and without milk
- maintain seasonality and farm-to-cup traceability
- maintain a stable price point so it can be the main espresso on our bar and the bars of many of our wholesale partners
- be easy to dial-in on an espresso grinder
Penrose also does well in the brewer – look for notes of lasting sweetness and heavy body, with a subdued acidity.
We could probably dub version 21 “origin legends,” as the coffees both come from famous and long-established coffee producers. The majority of the blend is from Coopedota in Tarrazu, Costa Rica. Supplying some intense, fruity sweetness is a natural process coffee from the Koke station near Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia. This blend follows the successful blending ratio of washed to natural coffees that many successful version of Penrose have contained. Therefore, expect balanced sweetness, some subtle fruit, and big body.
TEAM TASTE NOTES (v21)
caramel, mandarin, stone fruit, buttery
- Producer 77%:
- Coopedota
- Country 77%:
- Costa Rica
- Region 77%:
- Tarrazu
- Process 77%:
- Washed
- Sourcing Partner 77%:
- Ally Coffee (importer)
- Producer 23%:
- Koke Station
- Country 23%:
- Ethiopia
- Region 23%:
- Yirgacheffe, Gedoe
- Process 23%:
- Natural
- Sourcing Partners 23%:
- Ally Coffee (importer)
- Varieties:
- Caturra, Catuai, Kume, Dago, Wolisha
- Harvest:
- October 2017 – March 2018
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Decaf Huila EA
$16.00 – $32.00Decaf Huila EA is our current decaffeinated coffee option. It is decaffeinated using the Ethyl Acetate process, which uses locally sourced sugarcane as the source for the decaffeinating agent.
Huila is a well-establish region in south-central Colombia from which the Decaf Huila EA is sourced. It’s known for its clean, complex coffees and high altitudes. It is divided by the Magdalena River, which runs from north to south through the region dividing the central and eastern Cordillera Mountains. There are multiple harvest seasons even within this region because the region contains thousands of farms on opposing western and eastern-facing mountain slopes. The land is lush, green, and quite rural. Most coffee is grown on small, family-run farms where coffee is harvested, washed, and dried on the farm.
The coffee is decaffeinated before leaving Colombia. Decaffeinating the coffee before export saves a tremendous amount of time and energy, which equates to improved flavor, lower costs, and less emissions.
The process of decaffeination involves taking the green, unroasted coffee and putting it into a volatile state where it releases its soluble compounds into a water bath. The caffeine is removed from the water bath using either a solvent or filter. For this coffee, an affordable and local solvent, Ethyl Acetate, is used to remove the caffeine with minor effects on taste quality. It is derived from sugarcane as it is being processed for alternative uses (sugar, rum, molasses, etc). Once the caffeine has been removed from the water bath of solubles, the remaining solubles are placed back in a tank with the green coffee mass and allowed to reabsorb. What remains is a stable, slightly more brownish-green, unroasted coffee that is ready for export.
Team taste notes: chocolate, grape, nutty, teriyaki, brown sugar, dried fruit, malt, apple
- Country:
- Colombia
- Region:
- Huila
- Altitude:
- 1200 – 2000 MASL
- Process:
- Washed, Sugarcane EA Decaf
- Varietal:
- Castillo, Caturra, Colombia
- Harvest:
- April – August 2018
- Sourcing Partners:
- Café Imports (importer)
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Single Origin Sampler Subscription
$40.00 / month and a $40.00 sign-up feeOur single origin sampler features three of our single origin coffees. It’s a great way to experience the variety of flavors available from different origins or reward the coffee lover in your life. The subscription will include three single origin coffees currently available in our lineup at that time. We will do our best to keep as much variety in the box as possible – our single origin coffees typically last 2-3 months and we currently only carry three at a time.
This box includes:
• (3) bags of single origin coffee, weighing 8oz. each.
• (1) screen-printed box
• (3) cut sheets that include information about each of the coffees
**Price includes shipping. Whole bean coffee only. Sign-up fee is a prepayment for the last sampler of your subscription.
If you’d like to prepay for 3, 6, or 12 months of a subscription, visit our page for our normal sampler and select the appropriate length from the drop-down menu.
- Country:
- Varies - 3 bags per box
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Prepaid Subscription
$65.00 – $490.00FATHER’S DAY SPECIAL: any prepaid coffee subscription purchased between now and June 17th will include a free “Blue-prince” mug. No need to add it to your cart – we’ll send it with the first bag.
Give or receive the gift of great coffee with our Roaster’s Choice Prepaid Coffee Subscription. Each month, the recipient will receive a bag of a Blueprint Coffee. If you have taste preferences, just drop us an email, and we can adjust your subscription to your desired profile. Price includes shipping.
Would you prefer a subscription that is billed with each shipment? No problem, just use pay-as-you-go subscription.
(To include a gift note, or to delay the start of your subscription, just add a comment in the “notes” field of the checkout page)
