Coffee Guides, Brewing Methods, and Tips from La Barba Coffee Roasters

The House Blend is designed to be the same bag after bag. Like blended whiskey, a good coffee blend is optimized for balanced flavor and consistency.

Specialty coffee has tended to shun anything dark. With Noche Oscura we've sought to roast high quality green coffee for those who prefer a dark, bold cup. This comes straight out of our conviction that good coffee is for everyone.

Standard Espresso is a blend that elevates classic espresso characteristics as a shot or with milk. It's a benchmark, a standard, for what classic espresso should be.

Deviation Espresso exists to deviate from the standard and explore a bright and fruity espresso profile that veers non-traditional as a shot or with milk. 

Espresso is one of the most exciting ways try coffee. It's packed full of flavor and nuances that are constantly changing and developing. With this set, you have the opportunity to try a classic full bodied espresso along side a unique modern one.

In our pursuit of "Good Coffee for Everyone," we developed Anchor Blend to sit on the breakfast table (or at the diner) and help folks wake up with something straight forward that can go with a heavy breakfast.

When you source coffees it's usually a disappoint to come across a decaf on the cupping table. Not with Atunkaa. It's a good tasting coffee in its own right, that just happens to be decaf. It's also farm level traceable, which is uncommon among coffees in general but practically unheard of with decaf.

Another fresh crop from Finca La Colmenita. They consistently produce a coffee that's rich without sacrificing balance or clean cup character. The richness comes as a chocolate note which is complimented by honey sweetness and delicate plum notes.

This carefully washed geisha has green grape and apricot flavors with a marshmallow-like sweetness. As it cools the sweetness becomes more pronounced and the fruit notes provide acidity to complement the sweetness and maintain the complexity of this coffee.

Another great coffee from Habtamu Fikadu, this lot from his Goro site is a classic washed Guji. It has a strong black tea character mixed with delicate peach notes and raspberry acidity.

This naturally processed Ethiopian has deep fruit notes of blueberry and watermelon but not the funk that often goes with such a fruity natural processing. The acidity is subtle but present in a lemon meringue note that is just as persistently sweet as it is acidic.

Boozy in a good way, this mixed varietal natural from Sebastian Ramirez,f has an intense port wine character with a mixed berry juiciness underneath. With subtle dark chocolate notes it's basically like sitting down with a glass of port and bar of craft chocolate.

This coffee has a full body with an exciting blackberry acidity that balances out as it cools to a velvety finish with a slight note of sweet vanilla.