Those cool mornings of autumn have rolled in and it won’t be long before chilly winter days make their arrival. 

Holidays are right around the corner and JumpinGoat Coffee is spreading some cheer with the offer of their new gift box, perfect for any occasion and just in time for the holidays.

At a price of $40.00 and complete with two pounds of the world’s finest gourmet specialty coffee, a JumpinGoat mug and a sack full of Grandma Rubin’s Peppernut ginger cookies, this gift box is sure to bring a smile.

Even better, JumpinGoat is going the extra mile this season, giving you an option to mix and match to create the perfect gift box for your loved one.  Don’t be surprised if you find yourself having visions of Pink Peppermint Stick, Chocolate Mint and Spiced Chai teas dance through your head. 

Choose from the variety of JumpinGoat’s extra rich, full-bodied gourmet specialty coffees and loose leaf teas to accessories like candies, nuts, natural Georgia mountain honey, travel mugs and French presses to come up with the ultimate combination for your gift box.  And don’t forget the new holiday flavored coffees and teas. 

Check out all your choices on the JumpinGoat website (www.jumpingoat.com) or call 1-877-797-4628 to start designing your holiday or gift box today.  [Prices vary according to combinations.]

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Tea Cupping for Your Next Marketing Meeting?

JumpinGoat would like to offer its hand in hospitality by offering you a cup of tea. Tea? Yes, tea. Jumpingoat Coffee Roasters also sells loose leaf tea. We are not just about Coffee and caffeine filled goats we also have a more hospitable side and offer many blends of Rooibos Herbal Tea among many others.

In its’ native country, South Africa, it is customary to drink Rooibos Tea without milk and with only a slice of lemon. Rooibos Tea is said to be naturally sweet. A ‘Red Espresso’ drink in South Africa is actually made from Rooibos Tea. Try a Red Latte or a Red Cappuccino next time you are in the area.

Offering someone tea is the ultimate expression of hospitality. It puts your guests at ease and lets them know you have their welfare in mind. Offering your customers tea lets them know it is about their needs. This was the original idea behind the Japanese Tea Ceremony; they were ceremonies of hospitality.

The afternoon tea in England was originally for the wealthy. It was a status symbol to drink and offer tea and it was done in quiet settings away from the kitchen after meals.

It is absolutely not socially acceptable to stir your tea with a tea spoon in large sweeping circles! Instead place your spoon in the liquid and fold it over three or four times. There seem to be a lot of strange etiquettes and customs that revolve around tea. I hope we can train our goats to follow suite.

Here is a great idea for your next marketing mind extravaganza event or quality control meeting. Call it a Tea Cupping meeting instead. Tea Cupping and Coffee Cupping is used to determine the quality, taste, aroma, briskness, body and color of tea or coffee. Instead of examining Tea maybe you can use it to examine your marketing ideas.  Tea is the drink of hospitality, grace and putting others at ease. Maybe you could offer it to your competitors and get them to spill their latest business plan ideas.

Let us know how it goes – feel free to leave a comment below,

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‘The Journey of a Brazilian Coffee Bean’

While you watch the leaves shimmer and enjoy your morning cup of Brazilian Yellow Bourbon Coffee think about the journey that Brazilian coffee bean embarked upon to bring you such a simple moment of splendor. As the perfect amount of natural froth collects around the edges of your favorite coffee mug close your eyes and enjoy the history and the vibrant story for a while. Oh well, close them after you read this anyway.

Brazilian Yellow Bourbon coffee is grown by the Carvalho Dias and the Ottoni families deep within the Mogiana region of Brazil. On many occasions they have received the prestigious Cup of Excellence award for this very brew you are mulling over. For four generations these infamous coffee growers have strived to maintain an integral balance between the land, people and the bean. You might just say that excellence has been their tradition.

Speaking of the land, the beaches in North Brazil are dreamy and the rain forests are lush and green. There are rainy seasons in the mountains and spring starts in August for any of you adventurous travelers out there. Their workdays are full of chatter, coffee, coffee, and more coffee and pride is taken in doing a task well.

The Mogiana coffee region was named for the Companhia Mogiana Estrada de Ferro train line that ran through this area. In the beginning the train line and the coffee industry were vital to each other. The train line was established to expand the coffee plantations up into the Northeast. Even though the train line never fully recovered after the depression the excellence of the coffee in this region has stood the test of time.

The Brazilian Yellow Bourbon coffee remains one of JumpinGoat Coffee Roasters consistent favorites. The coffee is laid out on drying beds to sun dry with the cherry still attached creating a rich, dry, fruit flavor onto the bean.  You can read the full description here and maybe grab a bag or three for yourself.

I can hear the train rolling through the Brazilian hillside. Here’s to the journey of the Brazilian Coffee Bean from high altitudes to the perfect roast at JumpinGoat Coffee to your table. Enjoy your perfect bean and your frothy morning mix as we are off once again to roast the perfect bean.

JumpinGoat Coffee Roasters is proud to announce its newest fundraising effort, as it launches an ongoing partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Northeast Georgia.  The partnership with Habitat for Humanity centers around a signature blend designed for the annual charitable Hogpen Hillclimb Run which commences in Helen, Georgia and aids in raising awareness for Habitat for Humanity’s mission.  The signature coffee blend will be recognizable by its Hogpen Hillclimb logo and Habitat for Humanity branding.  As production is finalized in the near future, you can acquire the product by visiting Habitat for Humanity of Northeast Georgia or the Hogpen Hillclimb Run website and following the appropriate links.  Habitat for Humanity proceeds from the sale of the Hogpen Hillclimb blend from the Habitat for Humanity website will directly benefit the projects of the Northeast Georgia chapter.  

JumpinGoat is honored to work with an organization that directly contributes to the local community and anticipates great things to come.  With additional fundraising campaigns in the near future in conjunction with other associations, JumpinGoat would like to inform the public that the fundraising does not stop here, but is offered to any church, school, sport or civic organization in need of fundraising.  Fundraising information can be found on the JumpinGoat website, http://www.jumpingoat.com/Fundraising.html, or by calling Karen Hall toll free to 1-877-797-4628.  JumpinGoat Coffee Roasters – They’re not just a business in the community, but a part of the community.

Rachel Rogers 

Independent Business Writer 

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Heartburn, anyone?  Low acid coffee might be a solution.  Acid reflux, indigestion, GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) – all names referring to that uncomfortable burning that starts in the pit of your stomach, coats your esophagus and radiates up to your chest and throat.  Anyone who experiences heartburn symptoms on a regular basis can tell you the importance of diet and how certain foods and drinks, usually acidic, can trigger a flare of this condition.  For people who love drinking coffee, this can create quite a conflict.  To drink or not to drink, that is the question.  Thankfully, there is the existence of low acid coffee. 

Coffee, in general, absorbs tastes and attributes from the surrounding terrain and region in which it is grown, as well as other environmental factors.  Coffee naturally produces acids and sugars among other properties of the coffee bean.  Coffee growing regions of the globe each produce distinctive coffee beans with variations in genetic properties, including taste, smell, color, and yes, even acidity.  Low acid coffee beans can be found in specific areas where coffee plants are inherently bestowed with natural low acid characteristics.  That’s good news for the reflux-afflicted consumer.  The easiest way to find these low acid coffee beans is to simply ask. 

Besides the naturally grown low acid coffee bean, there are other ways to generate a low acid cup of coffee.  Certain roasting and brewing processes can significantly impact the amount of acid created without affecting the taste or aroma of the coffee itself.  Special roasting techniques designed to balance pH levels can minimize acidity.  A time consuming, yet simple and productive, cold brewing process can significantly reduce acidity as well.  The cold brewing method can be achieved with any ground coffee of choice and involves adding cold water to the coffee grounds and allowing them to steep for approximately 12 hours.  After steeping and subsequently separating the grounds, the concentrate can then be served by adding the desired amount of hot water  - and voilà, you have a cup of low acid coffee. 

For those coffee lovers suffering from chronic reflux or heartburn and the coffee conundrum this creates, investigate the benefits low acid coffee provides.  The less acid, the less likely it is to aggravate the gastrointestinal system, leading to a “happy” stomach. Perhaps it will be discovered that you can have the best of both worlds. 

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