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Mothers Day Sale - April 29 - May 3
28/04/22
This Mother’s Day, make her an offer she can’t refuse. Our Godfather blend is 20% off for a limited time only starting April 29th (for online orders only). This includes the Classic Light Roast Espresso, the Dark Roast Espresso, and the newly introduced Natural Decaf. This best-selling Classic blend is a crowd-pleaser, for both the casual drinker and the coffee connoisseur. As a light roast, it imparts flavours of caramel and milk chocolate, and as a dark roast, we taste chocolate fudge and dark toffee. The Godfather collection works well as drip coffee, espresso, or french press, and pairs well with milk.
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Analog Coffee
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Analog Coffee Named Best Coffee Shop
01/05/19
Coffee isn’t just coffee anymore. Now, it’s all about the brand, the merchandise, the location, the story, but it has always been, and always will be, about the taste. Lucky for you, Analog checks off all of these boxes. Coffee has run in the Prefontaine family since 1974, when the father Cam first started a wholesale coffee company out of his home. His three sons grew up helping him with sales and watching him roast his very own coffee. The parents produced the coffee and the sons started selling all the commercial coffee equipment, making them the whole package to share their love of coffee with the world. Eventually after many years in the industry, the family decided that it was finally time to open their own shop.
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Nicaragua coffee farmer
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Visting Expocamo in Nicaragua - Direct Trade Trip
30/04/19
A few notes from our recent trip to Nicaragua.  We have traveled to Nicaragua many times and have always enjoyed the culture, the people, food and of course the coffee. Below we write about more of the cultural experience this year and some of the issues they are facing. 
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Coffee drying beds
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El Salvador Direct Trade Coffee Farm Tours
25/03/19
Exploring coffee growing regions is always exciting and filled with adventure.  Follow us as we visit some of the nicest coffee farms in the Conception de Ataco region of El Salvador and see why Direct Trade partnerships are so important to us at Fratello Coffee.
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Artisan coffee goes to suburbs as Analog Coffee opens in Westman Village
13/02/19
Coffee purveyors in south Calgary can rejoice as on Monday, Feb. 18, Analog Coffee (Analog) officially opens its doors at Westman Village. This is the sixth location for the Calgary-based coffee roaster. This storefront is unique to other Analog locations as it will be home to its first in-house bakery, top-of-the-line equipment - which will be the first-of-its-kind in Western Canada - and a liquor license so Westman Village residents and neighbours can enjoy an after work or weekend drink in Analog’s hip, trendy café.
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Colombia Coffee farmer
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Colombia Las Rosas Coffee Coop
14/09/18
Recently, our President Russ Prefontaine had the opportunity to visit La Plata, located in Huila Colombia. He went to visit Las Rosas (formerly Las Marias) the women’s cooperative that we have been working with for some time.
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Analog Coffee and the Prefontaine's
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Analog Coffee Delivering "urban-vibe" to suburbia Calgary
24/11/17
Analog Coffee is well known in the Calgary 3rd wave coffee scene; particularly noted for its flagship location on 17thAvenue; which serves upwards of a thousand guests per day.  Fratello Coffee Roasters has been an institution in the craft coffee roasting sector for over three decades and has been family owned for almost 40 years. 
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Cafe Consultation - How our Team Can Help You.
07/03/16
Meet one of Fratello Sales Consultants Joel May. He has been part of the Fratello team for years and is here to support clients with everything they need to run a successful cafe. If you are seeking to open a cafe or are you wanting support in your current business we are here to help. You can read below to find out more about their role and how they may serve you!
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Coffee cupping at home
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Coffee Cupping | A step by step guide
16/12/15
There is so much that goes into roasting that perfect cup of coffee, including a process known as cupping. This is a regular practice done at the roastery to ensure quality and flavour are to complete perfection. When you buy our beans or taste our coffee, we want to ensure that what you are getting is the best. Here is a step by step process known as cupping.
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retail coffee beans for sale
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4 Things to Know When Buying Coffee for Home
10/09/15
Making coffee at home is something people do almost every morning in their homes. There is so much that one can know when purchasing the right coffee. It is more than the brand or name on the table. There are several factors and things to be looking for when you are buying your next bag of beans. We put together a list of the top 4 things to look for when it comes to buying beans and keeping these fresh!
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Roasting the perfect coffee bean
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Roasting Coffee | The Perfect Coffee Bean
15/07/15
As the coffee culture emerges, many are learning and tasting the difference between what really goes into preparing your cup. We interviewed Fratello's Head Roaster, to learn more about roasting coffee
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Natural processed coffee
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El Salvador Coffee Sourcing Trip
26/03/15
We are very excited to bring you some of the great El Salvador coffee’s that will be arriving in July, we recently visited 3 producers in El Salvador, two that we have worked with before, Mauricio Salaverria and the Dumont family, and one producer that will be brand new to Fratello, Café Pacas. Though this is new to Fratello this is by no means a new producer as the Pacas family has been cultivating coffee for over 150 years.
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Eleane Mierisch
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Nicaraguan Coffee | Eleane Miersch
19/07/13
Continual improvement is something every farmer we work with strives for but few have the level of commitment that Eleane Mierisch does.   This is Fratello Coffee's 5th year working with the Miersch family and have written about them a lot.  We wanted to focus on Eleane in this post as she is a big reason for the consistent quality coffee coming from their farms and why we love Nicaraguan Coffee.
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