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COFFEE
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Top of the Mornin’ started with high quality coffee. We small batch roast, just before shipping, using the highest quality beans that are responsibly sourced. We built Top of the Mornin’ on our passion for craft coffee.
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When ordering the coffee beans, you can choose to have the beans come to you whole, or pre-ground. Whenever beans are ground, they start to deteriorate faster. For the best cup of coffee, we suggest ordering whole beans and grinding them yourselves with a "Burr Mill Grinder."
Our fresh ground coffee is a medium grind - 6 on a grinder and it's recommended to use with a Drip machine or Pour Over. -
All our green coffee is ethically sourced, and our unflavored coffee is certified Fair Trade Organic (FTO). This certification ensures rigorous standards for environmental stewardship and ethical labor practices, supporting sustainable farming methods like organic cultivation and biodiversity conservation. We are dedicated to ethical sourcing across our entire coffee lineup, ensuring that all our beans, whether organic or not, meet our environmental and social responsibility commitments."
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We work to find only responsibly, sustainably, and ethically sourced beans. This means we look into the grower and try to get to know their story. We avoid corporate owned farms and prefer family owned farms or coops. When it comes to the coffee, we only order specialty grade coffee.
We change the origin(s) of the blends from time to time as beans come in and out of availability. Our goal is to keep the taste profile of the coffee consistent over time. -
We order only specialty grade coffee, which is the highest rating coffee can get. To be specialty grade the coffee must be almost entirely free of defects and stand out in one attribute.
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We don't do caffeine tests, but on average an 8oz cup of coffee has around 95 mg of coffee. A coffee's caffeine content can range based on preparation method, the amount of coffee you are consuming, and the beans used.
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The beans should be very finely ground, less coarse than sand, but not so fine that the machine can't even push water through the portafilter. For a double shot, grind between 18–21 grams of coffee into your basket. The proper grind is crucial to a balanced, delicious shot of espresso!
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For drip coffee making we recommend a water to coffee ratio of 17:1 (or about 10 grams of coffee for every 6oz cup of coffee.) For a stronger pot of coffee or if using a French Press, use a water to coffee ratio of 15:1
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Top of the Mornin’ Coffee is small batch roasted. Small batch roasting ensures better temperature control of the beans during the process which prevents burning or inconsistent flavor. The beans you order have usually been roasted just before shipping to assure maximum freshness.
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While coffee is naturally gluten free, there is gluten present in the facility where our coffee is roasted.
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We are not fair trade certified. But we do follow an internal process we call human valued sourcing. As part of that, we trace our beans to the farms and coops growing our coffees and only work with importers who ensure fair wages. We also pay about 3.5 times the global commodity rate for coffee to ensure our farmers are earning fair wages. The actual certifications themselves can sometimes only be gotten by coffee farmers who speak English, have internet access, and pay high fees, because of this we do not require fair trade certifications but still care about this issue.
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While we don't specifically do sun grown or shade grown, we work to find only responsibly, sustainably, and ethically sourced beans. We avoid corporate owned farms and prefer family owned farms or coops. When it comes to the coffee, we only order specialty grade coffee.
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Our beans are 100% Arabica beans and the nuttiness is a natural flavor brought out during the roasting process but there are no nuts in the coffee. However, there are nuts on the premises of our roasting roasting facility, so there is the slightest risk of cross contamination.
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If you have a bag of our beans unopened, it will be fresh for up to a year! After open, expect freshness up to a few weeks.
