To celebrate, we're custom building a special blend - Up Shift - just for the Motorcycle Supershow. We'll have samples to try at the show and you'll be able to take a bag home or order some for delivery after the show.
Click on the title for more info and to download a coupon to save on admissions.
Full Throttle. That seems to be the speed we're running at around year end. So we mixed up a blend of beans to match our mood. Full on, big bold flavours. Spicy and a tad quirky.
The super special flavours of the Full Throttle blend come from exotic Monsooned Malabar beans from India. Then we add in a melange of beans from around the coffee world - including our beloved Ethiopian, of course - to get just the right balance.
If you loved our Hey Honey feature last year with the honey processed beans from Costa Rica, you won't want to miss Full Throttle.
We would love the Top 100 Project even if film buffs Ryan and Bev didn't develop awesome ads for Sparkplug Coffee to start every episode. Each one tailored to the film being reviewed. Too cool.
Listen up here or click on this blog post title to read more!
¡Ay, que rico!
That's a common expression heard in Latin America that means: so rich, so tasty, so delicious. And it is also the name of our feature coffee - a delicious rich and smooth blend.
Que Rico is made of a mix of medium roasted and darker roasted coffees, all from Central America and the northern part of South America. Think of the hills of Costa Rica and the mountains of Colombia. Small lot purchases with limited availability.
Is your coffee a commodity crop? Or is it a specialty product?
Traditionally, coffee has been a commodity product almost exclusively grown in poor tropical countries. Farmers sell their crops to local cooperatives or wholesalers who then sell them on for commodity coffees. Farmers of commodity crops are usually paid poorly and their workers can be in dire economic circumstances.
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Summertime - time for a new 'do and a new feature coffee. And we're super stoked to be featuring the Fuss Studio blend!
We created the Fuss Studio Blend for our fave local salon and early Sparkplug Coffee customer, Fuss Hair Studio to brew up in the salon.
We're donating a portion of sales of the Fuss Studio Blend coffee to the Toronto Humane Society, picked because the Fuss crew are big pet lovers and the THS provides such a valuable service.
Buy some coffee and help a dog, cat or bunny - what a sweet deal!
(Click on the title - Worth Making A Fuss About - for more info. One day I'll figure out how to add the link here.)
Knut, one of our loyal Sparkplug Coffee customers, emailed:
I don't see a place on the website where I can go in and adjust my shipping date. Can you move up the next shipment by a week?
No problem! Anytime you need a coffee subscription order changed - the date shifted forward or back, an extra order, skip an order, we can do it. Just call or email Kara and she'll take care of it.
You can update your contact info or payment method, so long as you've created an account in the Sparkplug Coffee store. Just use this link to login to your account and make the changes:
https://sparkplugcoffee.foxycart.com/cart?cart=updateinfo
Other DIY options are to cancel a coffee subscription or transfer it to someone else. These options are available from the personalized link contained in your emailed coffee order receipt.
For any other changes, just give us a call or send an email and we'll get it done. Easy peasy!
Although Sparkplug Coffee does not have a storefront and is a virtual / online business, we are proud to say that Corktown Toronto is our home base!
Until the end of the PanAm & Para PanAm Games, 5% of net sales from any coffee purchase delivered to a Corktown Toronto will be donated to the Corktown Residents & Business Association.
We'll tally up all the Corktown & area sales up to August 15, 2015 and cut a cheque to the CRBA to help it with its excellent community activities. And for Corktowners who sign up to get coffee on autopilot - delivered every 2 weeks, 3 weeks or monthly - we'll continue the donation to the CRBA for all of 2015. Click this article's header for more info or visit the Corktown 2015 info page.
