I believe the most important thing to understand about specialty coffee is the care that is taken to purchase and roast specialty coffee.

Many people don’t realize that coffee is actually a fruit, and like most fruit…it has a shelf life. Great care is taken by JumpinGoat’s buyers to procure the finest quality coffee beans from around the world. I have found that JumpinGoat’s customers are people that care what kind of coffee beans they buy in the same way they care about the condition of the apples, oranges, or lettuce they may purchase from the produce section of their local grocery. The next time you go to the supermarket consider how you evaluate produce in relation to how you may evaluate your coffee. Do you select organic produce? Do you shop for firm, soft, no bruises, or perhaps you just consider ripeness? My bet is that your criteria is largely based upon the actual fruit or vegetable.
With coffee, you need to understand that cheapest is NOT THE BEST (it’s the cheapest). Expensive is not always the best either, but specialty coffee is typically the cream of the crop in relation to all the coffee sold.
Knowing your roaster and how they do things for you is a great start to understanding what you are actually drinking. For example, most decaffeinated coffee is done via a chemical chlorination process…and that’s just plain bad for your overall health. Mountain Water Process is an all natural decaffeinated process (no harmful side effects). Also, how long your coffee takes to get to market after its roasted, or the cocktail of beans in the container is anybody’s guess.
JumpinGoat can tell you where our bean comes from, when and where it’s cupped before we buy it, and perhaps most importantly how fresh it is before and after we roast it.

Our food preparation standards and our process are very important to us and to our customers. We wear hats and gloves when we are placing product in a bag for you to drink. We are not required to do it, we do it because we would expect it to be done if we were buying a food product. We feel that Specialty Coffee should be regarded in the same way that any other prepared foods are regarded. That is the JumpinGoat Standard, the transparency of How, What, Where, When.
We hope you tell a friend about your visit to JumpinGoat Roasters

JumpinGoat Coffee Roasters is always pleased when we receive feedback from our customers, but when we received this most recent feedback we were pleased for several reasons.
These folks at Woodlands were not one of our wholesale customers at the time of their evaluation (taste test). We did not commission the test in any way, we were not even aware of the test until we were notified of the results.
The Folks over at Woodlands Camp organized the taste test, and we gratefully accept the test results because the metrics and criteria were reasonable, relevant, and sufficient for concerning coffee drinkers.
Thanks Woodlands
BTW these folks are doing some amazing work.
Check them out, and read their evaluation of JumpinGoat Coffee.

http://woodlandscamp.org/

Three weeks ago, 7 employees at Woodlands Camp participated in a blind coffee taste test. We wanted to test 3 different “types” of coffee. The first type we brewed was a well known “old school” brand that all of our grandparents grew to love, the second type was a “high end” famous brand that our generation has grown to love, and the third type was a local roaster. I was excited about the tastes test because, as a pretty avid coffee drinker, I was curious about 3 things – First, would my preferences be different than a more “casual” coffee drinker? Second, could I even tell the difference between our 3 main categories of coffee being offered? Third, which will I like better? We brewed a total of 5 roasts, 1 “old school, 2 “high end”, and 2 “local roaster.” After we brewed all the pots we asked everyone to take their time tasting and re-tasting all the roasts and to rank from top to bottom the various pots. Surprisingly, there was a consensus about the best roast and the worst roast. This surprised me because our 7 testers varied in age from high school to mid forties and from avid drinker to casual drinker. I won’t drag the winner of the worst through the mud, but I do want to mention the winner of the best. Jumping Goat Roasters (specifically the Peaberry Roast) was the unanimous choice for Best Coffee and the second most preferred roast was also Jumping Goat!. The difference was so big, that we have actually decided to change the coffee offered in our camp coffee shop to exclusively Jumping Goat coffee. We are excited about this new improvement and hope that many others will also enjoy it.