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Now Hiring – Cafe staff for both the NEW downtown location & Calgary Farmers Market.


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Fratello Coffee Roasters – Cafe Staff for both the Calgary Farmers Market and NEW downtown location. Fratello Coffee Roasters is looking for enthusiastic new staff to join the team at

El Salvador Direct Trade – Finca Los Pirineos


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I was fortunate enough to meet Gilberto Baraona back in February and toured Finca Los Pirineos which is located in the region of the Cordillera Tecapa Chinameca.  This was an

Hiring for Lead Coffee Roaster position.


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Fratello Coffee Roasters is looking for an experienced lead roaster to join our team.  We have been roasting coffee since 1985 but we continue to seek the opportunity to learn

Central America, Direct Trade coffee sourcing trip – An overview


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Following this post will be a detailed write up on the new relationships we are forming as well as updates on our current relationships.  What I first wanted to communicate

Hario V60 pour over, a brewing guide


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The Hario V60 O2 pour over dripper is our preferred method of brewing coffee at Fratello’s Analog Cafe. The manual brewing process allows our barista to have complete control over

An Education – Cupping 19 unique micro-lots


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I recently had the please of meeting Ted Buracas of NewContent.  Ted Buracas is a writer, photographer, and film maker in Calgary, where he counts coffee as one of his

Chemex coffee maker, a brewing guide


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Using a Chemex is my personal favourite way to brew filtered coffee.  The slower extraction time lends to a much sweeter and complex flavour in the cup.  I find a

Slayer Espresso & Fratello Coffee on Bizarre Foods


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Check out the latest episode of Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. He looks at the Seattle coffee scene and interviews my brother Jason and myself at Slayer’s studio as well

Growing, Harvesting & Wet-Milling coffee – Training Video #1


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If you frequent high end cafes, you will most likely come across or hear the term “Micro-Mill” used more and more often.   A micro-mill is a washing station called

After the Wet-mill: Drying & Dry-milling coffee – Training video #2

After the Wet-mill: Drying & Dry-milling coffee

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