My background as a tea drinker has been rather sporadic. On again, off again. Never fully committing to tea I would always lean towards coffee, my more familiar beverage. Years ago, I drank many a cup of supermarket tea, primarily for the health benefits. Green tea mostly. I didn't particularly enjoy the taste - it was usually bitter and the overall steeping process seemed more of an obligation than a celebration of flavor.

You’ll be up there before you know it and if you’re lucky like me, there may be a guy giving out free watermelon at the summit. 

The weather is warming up (albeit temporarily) and soon summer will be upon us. To help combat the heat and enjoy your back patio during the blazing hot summer an iced coffee drink can't be beat. Both delicious and refreshing, this is a great way to wake up make the most of an afternoon outside.

Coffee goes with dairy products as bread goes with butter. With all our talk about coffee I feel it is necessary to devote a blog to the other fine beverage on kitchen tables throughout the world: Milk. 

Colorado Mountain Coffee took to the hills this weekend to check out the snow in Northern Colorado. The weather was beautiful and the snow is great for skiing right now. The Barnes Meadow trail  was in great shape with nice fresh powder through early afternoon...

On CMC's Facebook page we recently posted a link to an article on the health benefits of your daily cup o' joe. Hopefully, this isn't news to any of you - coffee has been the subject of many studies over the years and The Kansas City Star article is only the latest adding to an increasingly big pile of pro-coffee reading material. 

With the growing number of IPv6 capable users and ever shrinking pool of available IPv4 addresses we have been investigating deployment of a dual stack implementation for Colorado Mountain Coffee's website. Although it is not strictly necessary at the moment, having a properly working setup now will make it easy to avoid a rushed patch job in the future. With the big players such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook set to permanently switch on their own setups on June 6, 2012, now seems like a good time to start getting ready ourselves.

I spent the better part of December this year traveling throughout Chile. I hiked in Torres del Paine, the beautiful national park that is the crown jewel of Chile, walked the hills in the coastal city of Valparaiso and navigated the streets of Santiago. I planned this trip knowing that I was not going for the coffee...

There are several things that come to mind when I think of this time of year. Sledding, lights, ribbons and tags, not to mention packages, boxes and bags. Then there is the delightful eggnog latte, a great way to finish off a holiday meal or simply enjoy by cozy fire. This coffee drink that requires an espresso machine to create is well worth the effort...

The French Press. What is it and why use it to brew coffee? To me, the answer is simple and straight forward, but I was recently reminded that many folks don’t know much about this brewing method. For many people it remains an exotic brewing method that wouldn’t stand up against their drip machine on its best day. So, I think now is as good of time as any to dive into the topic of the French press...

La Milagrosa is a small producer run by a man called Senor Tito. The coffee that is produced on this farm is some of the most respected in Panama. I began my coffee tour adventures in Boquete with a visit to Cafe Ruiz, a fine example of one of Panama’s high volume producers. However, like many things in life, you often need to look at them from a different perspective to fully appreciate what you have. The following afternoon...

I had been in the highland town of Boquete, Panama for only an afternoon, but had already arranged two coffee tours for my first full day. The first was to be Cafe Ruiz, one of the larger coffee growers in the area, and the second, Finca La Milagrosa, a small grower with a big reputation. The disparity of these two growers was obvious, but I had it on good authority that they shared a common thread - excellent coffee beans. 

We had a great time serving free Tree Line coffee at the Without Limits Productions Cyclo X Refrigerated cyclo-cross event last Saturday at Boulder Reservoir. The weather was cold and windy, the coffee was hot and the racers were friendly and impressively fast.

When we think of the coffee growing regions of the world very few of us will name Panama. Many a coffee connoisseur will name Sumatra, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, Hawaii, maybe even Vietnam. Sadly, Panama will rarely make the list and that’s a mistake.

Wondering how much coffee to put in that new French press you just got? Or maybe you need to serve a crowd of 50 this weekend and need a ballpark figure for how much you'll need to buy to supply the event. Our new coffee calculator will get you on the right track to make it all run smoothly.

We are always looking for more Customer Coffee Photos, but when it came time for us to spruce up our website and create those awesome magnets that ship with orders we knew we needed help to keep everything looking great with a matching theme. At the same time we decided it was time to design a new logo that captures the essence of what we do. As luck had it, the expertise we were looking for was right under our noses.

Don’t forget that Colorado Mountain Coffee is always on the lookout for great customer coffee photos taken with our coffees. Whether it’s snowshoeing near Vail pass or mountain biking around Buena Vista, a small coffee press or backpacking espresso machine is a staple. Brewing coffee has always been a pretty standard activity when David and Ryan head up to the high country and we are always interested to see where our coffee has

Brewing coffee while camping brings about its own set of challenges. The whole process gets more complex from preparation, the brewing process, and especially clean up. Many folks bring coffee when they camp near the family station wagon, but would not consider it when backpacking. Backpacking, as we all know, is all about saving weight. The less you carry generally the more happy you will be. However, brewing coffee need not be complicated.

Colorado Mountain Coffee has aimed to be an environmentally responsible company since its inception. From business record retention to printing on recycled paper products we try and be as green as possible in everything that we do. This is a company position that is very important to me. I am the type of person that makes an effort to get the bike out whenever possible, whether it’s commuting to the office or running a quick