Category Archives: Cup of Excellence

Holiday gift ideas for the coffee lover!

Happy Holidays from Fratello Coffee Roasters! We love enjoying great coffee all year round here at Fratello, and hope you do to. At Christmas time why not pay special attention to the coffee lover on your list (that is usually most people on the list) and treat them to some great gift ideas from Fratello.



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2009 Brazilian Cup of Excellence public cupping


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Fratello Coffee is going to be holding a public cupping of the top 10 Cup of Excellence coffees from the Brazilian 2009 competition.  If you are interested in tasting these

Bolivian Cup of Excellence – Cafe Central Lot #6


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Fratello just won another Cup of Excellence coffee Lot.  The auction just finished and was one of the longest bidding wars I can remember.  After it was all said and

New Coffee’s Availalbe for Winter Months


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Fratello Coffee is introducing 6 new coffee next week.  These seasonal coffees are Fresh Green Arrivals.   We did not buy a lot of these coffees and expect them to move very

Costa Rican Cup of Excellence – Lot #3


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Fratello Coffee just won the # 3 Lot of Costa Rican Celle de Copey – Cup of Excellence today.  This was a HUGE achievement and the highest ranking coffee Fratello

Colombian Cup of Excellence 2009


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I have just returned from Pereira Colombia after judging the 2009 Cup of Excellence competition.   Although tired, I’m thrilled about this experience.  It is so exciting going through the cupping

Honduran Cup of Excellence 2008 – Las Amazonas


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Yesterday was the online auction for the 2008 Honduras Cup of Excellence competition, and Fratello Coffee is happy to say, that we have won another Lot of coffee, and are

Fratello Coffee's green storage techniques


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Green coffee is packaged at origin in 132-152 lb jute (burlap) sacks.  The smell and taste of this jute can be transfered to the green coffee, resulting in a cup

Bolivian Telmo Cahuana – Organic – Cup of Excellence


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        Fratello Coffee won its 3rd auction with the Cup of Excellence program on November 15th. This was a fast paced auction with many different roasting and retail companies bidding

Gallery Series: El Salvador COE


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Gallery Series, refers to those one-of-a-kind coffees with extremely special or exciting flavor qualities, that when we cup them, we recognize as extraordinary. Like other organic food products, the flavor