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Although we are a specialty shoppe that features loose tea, we dearly love our coffee and have tried it around the world. The best cup of coffee I have ever drunk was either the rich Honduran brew served with breakfast on Roatan in a restaurant with surf lapping beneath the open deck and ants all over the table or in the slightly more civilized setting of the deck of a cruise ship at 5:30 am as we approached the Mendelhall Glacier in Alaska. Just reflecting on these great cups of coffee remind us that, like tea, coffee can be a true experience - not just a morning caffeine boost that helps us get through our increasingly busy day.

That is why we offer our favorite coffees - the blends and roasts of Raven's Brew. We discovered this unique roaster on that cruise to Alaska - a trip fraught with the dangers of being overwhelmed by the myriad of Seattle coffee shops and their acrid full city roasts. With roasting facilities in Ketchican, Alaska and Tumwater, Washington they offer a full line of coffees from light to full city roasts with their specialized air roasting techniques that give you the balance of great coffee taste and roast flavour and body that makes a great cup of coffee.

You can order coffee directly from their website and they will ship it directly to you - freshly roasted and mailed within a day or two. In fact, we have done that for years. But you can also come to the shoppe and pick up a bag of your favorite roast with no shipping or handling and brew your first pot tonight.

We are proud to carry this portion of the Raven's Brew coffee line-up.

Holiday Special Roasts

Santa Caws - A Full City Roast with a sweet and delicate body. A Holiday treat that is come and gone by the time the clatter of hooves have faded from the rooftops.

Hanukkah Java - A Full City Roast with a sweet and delicate body. Spin the dreidel, light the menorah and enjoy this warm and comforting treat, because by the 4th of Kevet... it will be gone.

Cherry Karma - Perhaps the most complex and rewarding of all of the Raven's Brew line. They only make a limited batch each year, but that is probably for the best. It's almost impossible to stop enjoying the chocolate, cherry and walnut flavor accents. This is not flavored coffee. It is simply the perfect medium roast for the best beans and a secret drying technique that embues this magical elixir with an improbable but not quite impossible delicious cup.

Light Roast

Breakfast Blend - Paula's favorite - Our lightest roast - more coffee flavour -less roast taste with less body - much more caffeine.

Baranof's Blend - A blend of 80 % light roast and 20% full city roast - a blend of body and a hint of a full city and the caffeine punch of a light roast.

Medium Roasts

Resurrection Blend- A medium roast has more flavour and body slightly less caffeine - a fine roast for a milder espresso.

Misty Fjords -- A medium roast blend that is excellent to go with desserts or a quiet evening with friends.

Dark Roasts

Dead Man's Reach - Bill's favorite -- A full-bodied dark roast of exotic coffees. Perfect for automatic drip or espresso. Stands up to cream and sugar - if you do that sort of thing to a perfectly innocent cup of Joe. (Okay- Dead Man's Reach may not be perfectly innocent - but so far - its at least not guilty)

Three Peckered Billy Goat -- A dark roast of superb arabica beans. This blend has all the body and fullness you would expect from a coffee that has earned the name Billy Goat.

Full City Roasts

Wicked Wolf -- Deep dark and delicious - this full city roast has sweet and earthy tones -- a fantastic coffee that is excellent with rich desserts or more exotic add-ins - like flavoured syrups or maybe a little Kaluha.

Bruin Blend -- Strong enough to stand up to a Klondike morning and rich enough to accompany breakfast or a decadent dessert.

Skookum -- Big, Strong and Bold as the name suggests. Skookum comes from the Chinook word for "Strong". This Full City roast means business and will thrive even in the face of cream and sugar and other unneccesaries.

Skookum Decaf -- Normally, I hold no truck with foolishness like "decaf"... but if you were going to subject a coffee to the rigors of the water filtration needed to beat the caffeine out of the coffee, at least this is a great coffee to start with. Big and Bold and a Full City Roast. As nonsensical as it seems - the darker the roast, the lower the caffeine content. So a great rugged cup of coffee that has already been deeply roasted has the best shot at being a great cup of decaf. And Skookum Decaf definitely fits the bill.

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Deadman Reach is a shoal along Baranof Island in Peril Strait in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska. We thought Deadman’s Reach sounded like coffee and were inspired to design this special high-speed blend of very rare coffees for: Jump-starting Your Mornings, Long-haul Trucking, Cramming For Exams, Winning Races, Inspiring Great Ideas and Noble Emotions, Graveyard Shifts, Deadlines, States of Pure Bliss, and Intense Coffee Pleasure.

Revitalize your lifestyle and resurrect your palate with this inimitable high-speed blend of eco-correcto coffees. Suitably brewed by any method: drip, French press, or espresso. Produces an outstanding crema and punches through a tall latte with dense coffee flavor. Also available in Certified Organic form. Click here to read The Deadman’s Reach mini-micro-novelette by John Straley.

Whether it’s a war party or a barbecue, it calls for a fresh pot of Skookum Blend, or why bother? This blend is as big, bold and natural as the Great Northwest. “Skookum,” from the Chinook trade jargon of the great first nations, means “Strong.” We named this unique blend in tribute to those great cultures and their heritage that has so enriched and instructed the lives of all of us. With its Full City Roast, full-bodied, sweet, roasted flavor profile, this is Kaupy Kahkwa Koosah (Coffee Like Heaven)!™ Available in DeCaf.

At dawn the griz is riz, and she means biz. Ursus Arabica tromps out of the rain forest behind the Raven’s Brew Coffee roastery at sunrise and knocks down the door for this coffee. Growls Ursus, in her husky, irresistible (do not attempt to resist) voice, “Bruin Blend : It roars with flavor but it don’t bite.” Decadently luxurious. Heavenly syrupy body in a laid-back orchestration of pleasant earthy, herbal and warm-spice flavor notes creates a pool of deep ponderance for your palate. This Full City Roast is also available in a Certified Organic version.

From the Book of Joe we read, “In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was COFFEE, and in that elixir was INSPIRATION and RAPTURE, REVELATION, and TRANSCENDENCE. And yea, verily, that libation of transubstantiation was found to be Resurrection Blend and it was good, and there were many comings for more, and much was quaffed. And what word and what sacred host will be on the supplicant’s lips as they meet their coffee maker?”

In constant quest of the Supreme Bean your immaculate roastmasters at Raven’s Brew Coffee offer this revival of heavenly flavor and sacrament of wakefulness in a blend of some of the most blessed beans in all creation, Resurrection Blend, the chosen one.

We're religious over this profoundly deep and multi-nuanced libation. Ponderous silky body and floral/spicy/winey symphony. Our rapturous version of a Moka-Java. Experience divinity drip brewed or as an ecstatic espresso. Medium Roast.

Organic Is A Higher State of Bean

Experience the Dharma when you put your lips to this divine libation.

OPEN your senses to THE CUP THAT CONNECTS you to coffee fields cultivated in sustainable, chemical-free fashion by small farmers in harmony with the local environment.

ENTER the circuitry of interconnection and awareness that is the matrix of intact ecosystems.

ENJOY their gifts and know that all following generations may enjoy them too. Your choice of cup is consequential; it is a link in a chain of cause and effect. In this impure age, it is a blessed act of defiance, defense, and compassion for all creation.

There are no Dharma Beans Nor Coffee Maker bright. Since all is void Where does taste alight?

Dharma Beans is the all Certified Organic line of coffees from Raven’s Brew Coffee. We are currently offering nine coffees in this line: Brazilian Estates, Deadman's Reach^®, Ebony Pearls™, Espresso Cantata™, Guatemalan Selections, Bruin Blend^®, Peruvian Gold, Sumatran Mandheling, and DeCaf Peruvian. Deadman's Reach and Bruin Blend are each packaged with their own unique labels — all of our other organics are packaged with the Dharma Beans label.
Our roasteries are certified by the United States Department of Agriculture.