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Clear Lake Coffee Roasters: Explorer Series-Juan Valdez: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Colombian Coffee Icon - October 12, 2022

Clear Lake Coffee Roasters: Explorer Series-Juan Valdez: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Colombian Coffee Icon - October 12, 2022

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There have been many others, from an early prototype of Kermit the Frog doing 10 second commercials for Wilkins Coffee in the late 50’s, to George Clooney pitching Nespresso; but for longevity and pure iconic-ness, none of them can really compare to Juan Valdez, the advertising character who has been representing National Federation of Colombian Coffee Growers for over 60 years.

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Clear Lake Coffee Roasters: Industry Insider Series -The Introduction of Coffee in Guatemala- October 9,2022

Clear Lake Coffee Roasters: Industry Insider Series -The Introduction of Coffee in Guatemala- October 9,2022

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Some researchers belief that the concept of a town square was exported to Spain, a gift of sorts from Mesoamerican cultures that later came back to the colonies as a standard element of municipal planning. The square is a common organizing principle in Mayan architecture and community, the sides facing the center. Consistent with an emphasis on the stomach as the center of the body, Maya-Mam people call the town square the “navel” of town, and their hometown the navel of the world, not because they believe it is the center of the World (creation) but because they experience it as the center of their world (place on the earth).

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Clear Lake Coffee Roasters: Industry Insider Series -Getting Started With a Green Coffee Supplier- October 7,2022

Clear Lake Coffee Roasters: Industry Insider Series -Getting Started With a Green Coffee Supplier- October 7,2022

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Green coffee supplier: 87 million results. Green coffee trader: 41 million results. Green coffee importer: 37 million results. And holy moly, all you want to do is “purchase green coffee” but that phrase produces 600 million search results! 
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Clear Lake Coffee Roasters: Industry Insider Series - Notes from the Fruity Frontier of Fermentation: The Latest in Coffee Processing Coffee Fermentation is a Natural, Long Standing Process- August 16,2022

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Fruit Fermentation can also include adding sliced or smashed fruit to honey processed coffee as it is turned during drying. A wide variety of fruit or friends of fruit, like wine yeast, have been used. We've been able to cup coffees from our producer partners in Colombia that have been fermented with grapes, oranges, wine yeast, passionfruit and more.
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CLEAR LAKE, IOWA -- From all of us at Clear Lake Coffee Roasters we are pleased to announce you can now find our coffees at Randy's Neighborhood Market - August 15, 2022

CLEAR LAKE, IOWA -- From all of us at Clear Lake Coffee Roasters we are pleased to announce you can now find our coffees at Randy's Neighborhood Market - August 15, 2022

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Clear Lake Coffee Roasters: Industry Insider Series - 100 Years Ago, W.H. Ukers Finished Writing All About Coffee- July 2,2022

Clear Lake Coffee Roasters: Industry Insider Series - 100 Years Ago, W.H. Ukers Finished Writing All About Coffee- July 2,2022

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The pages of All About Coffee are filled with examples that give credence to the cliché, the more things change, the more they remain the same. Ukers also demonstrates that some ideas around what constitutes quality coffee and solid business practices have not evolved over the last 100 years so much as they temporarily devolved in the middle of the 20th century.

 

 Six reasons for making Clear Lake Coffee Roasters - CLCR - your go-to coffee roaster:


☕️ We are a local family-run business located in the heart of Clear Lake, Iowa.

☕️ We go to great lengths to find only the finest and ethically sourced coffee around, from the top 2% of coffee beans in the world.

☕️ We only source 100% certified Arabica coffee beans, carefully hand-selecting each coffee based on specific quality and taste attributes.

☕️ Our roasting process has been refined over the years and each roast profile is individually designed to complement the nuances of the coffee we source, from Cup of Excellence (COE) award-winning producers.

☕️ By roasting in smaller batches, we can ensure our coffee is ALWAYS fresh, in fact, we roast your coffee only after you place an order - the same day your order ships out.

☕️ At CLCR, we are dedicated to a single mission: the unyielding pursuit of coffee perfection in every cup.

We would give you more reasons, but rather than reading it's better if you visit our website, purchase a bag or two, and experience a unique caffeinated or half-caff journey for yourself 😊!
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Clear Lake Coffee Roasters: Industry Insider Series - Instant Coffee - A Brief History- May 15,2022

Clear Lake Coffee Roasters: Industry Insider Series - Instant Coffee - A Brief History- May 15,2022

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In the same way that an increase in consumption of instant coffee coincided with a decrease in the quality and consumption of coffee overall, the subsequent decrease in consumption of instant coffee coincides with the emergence of the specialty coffee industry. One could find some correlation between stabilization and even slight rises in instant coffee consumption and Starbuck’s introducing instant coffee to their product mix in 2009. The company said it had been developing an instant coffee for 20 years. Daily consumption of instant coffee had been nearly cut in half over those 20 years, which could have been interpreted either as an opportunity lost or gained.
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Clear Lake Coffee Roasters: Industry Insider Series - Coffee Is A Narrative story- May 14,2022

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Coffee has its share of stories. The prompts in the previous paragraph, some general and some very specific relative to the history of coffee, all mean something to someone. Some of them are more personal than others, meaning something to perhaps only a handful of people or different things to different people.  Some of them mean something to everyone in coffee. And it is only a tiny, tiny sample. The point, and I do have one, is that the facts of the matter are not the thing – the play is the thing, the story.  Even though it is terribly trite, I want to tell you to let it go. Look for the story and not the accuracy because the story will always teach you more than the facts. Don’t Joe Friday the tales you read here. The story is more than a sum of its perceived “facts,” ma’am.
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