Counter Culture Coffee NYC

With big risks, come big rewards. After two previous years of perfecting a natural coffee w/ the buziraguhindwa washing station, we decided to take the plunge & make a larger batch this year to be able to offer. Not only is this a first of its kind in burundi, it is hands down the best processed natural we have ever seen. Look for big strong aromatics & flavors of strawberry cream, dates, & spice.

Early harvest nueva llusta is a collection of small, single-farmer lots that are the culmination of multiple years of hard work between the cooperative & counter culture. This year, we were able to select out four special lots, two from the early part of the harvest & two from the later half that are the pinnacle of transparency & quality. All four lots selected have remarkable notes of chocolate, vanilla, & black cherry.

The country of rwanda is perfectly suited for amazing coffee – it has good coffee varieties w/ an ideal climate – & it seems that w/ each year rwandan coffees are getting more & more of the credit they deserve. The remera washing station in the south of rwanda is one one of the most impressive in the country. Remera’s coffee is exactly what we look for in rwandan coffee: bright, crisp citrus, coupled w/ fruit notes of cranberry, crisp apple, & stone fruit that go perfectly w/ the juicy body & clean, sweet aftertaste

Single-community lot‏ the tiny village of buziraguhindwa has built quite a reputation for quality, considering the washing station is only a few years old, & burundi itself isn’t exactly the most famous coffee-growing origin. Ramadhan salum, one of the owners, separated coffee from the growers around the washing station & one other community exclusively for counter culture. These lots tend to be our favorites – w/ refined & complex flavors of nectarine, date, & citrus.

A mainstay of our lineup for over a decade now, this year, finca nueva armenia makes its debut in decaf! We believe in offering the best possible experience to drinkers of decaffeinated coffees: coffees that taste great from farms we’re excited about & relationships in which we take great pride. We send small batches of coffee to the swiss water decaffeination plant in vancouver, canada, frequently, which allows us to keep our decafs tasting fresh & to offer a larger variety of our best single-origin coffees than if we stuck w/ traditional, larger-batch decaffeination. Chocolate, sweet, & nutty

Valle del santuario comes from five small communities that are a part of an exclusive counter culture project in northern peru. This year, the project selected 13 producers w/ the best coffees from those communities to receive higher premiums for their coffee. The work that went into this years lot was not lost, & this is the best this coffee has tasted in the last 7 years, w/ notes of chocolate, plum, spice, & vanilla w/ a smooth, round body

Decaf farmhouse is based on two simple ideas: that coffees are best at the peak of their season & that decaffeinated coffees can be exceptional. Like all produce, coffee changes over the course of the year: farmhouse is our home for the standout coffees that emerge as seasons change. All this attention to freshness results in decaf that is spectacularly sweet, complex & satisfying, & is fully the equal of any caffeinated coffee

This year, we worked w/ haru & the yirgacheffe farmers cooperative union to recreate the immaculate coffee we bought last year. Better cherry selection & better processing resulted in another lot exclusively for counter culture that hits the hallmarks of a great yirgacheffe coffee. Bright, crisp flavors of lime, jasmine, & sweet honey.

Seasonal espresso certified organic 100% haru from yirgacheffe, ethiopia

The miracle of coffee is that it is capable of a range of delicious flavors: brown sugar, toasted nuts, chocolate, stone fruit, even flowers. Often, blends focus on only one or two of these characteristics, opting for simplicity. Rustico embraces the full spectrum of coffee flavor, & is almost kaleidoscopic in its flavor intensity. To create rustico, we layer intensely delicious organic coffees artfully to create a complex, fully satisfying coffee experience, which expresses itself beautifully in an espresso machine, drip filter, or french press

Roasted & blended in the caffe dolce or "sweet coffee" tradition of central italian espresso, toscano finds a home in other brewers, as well, for a slightly darker-profile cup. Sweet & mild, w/ notes of caramel, hazelnut, & dark chocolate, toscano has built quite a following of professional baristas & home coffee enthusiasts

A first of its kind – a single-variety coffee, dedicated to bourbon, the king of the heirloom coffee varieties. Connoisseurs treasure the bourbon variety for its deep, buttery chocolate & coffee flavor, its unique sweetness, & its gentle fruit overtones