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    What is coffee for the Holidays?  For Cherry Blend Coffee Roasters, we believe any occasion is a holiday. Whether it’s your birthday, Christmas, a wedding, or just waking up to another great day, it can be a holiday.  We strive to celebrate every day as a being special.           Our special blend that makes up the coffee we call “ Coffee just for the Holidays”, includes Papua New Guinea, Ethiopian Yirgacheffe and Colombia.  Each of these coffees bring special notes to this awesome coffee. The Papua New Guinea is grown in clay and volcanic ash that includes a special sweetness to it.  The...

No one really knows where or how coffee was discovered.  Truth is that coffee can be traced back through the centuries to coffee forests on the Ethiopian plateau.  The legends say that a goat herder named Kaldi found the origin of coffee.  He noticed his herd of goats became playful and energetic after eating the berries from certain trees.  He reported this to the abbot of a local monastery.  They made a drink from the berries to see what would happen.  They discovered that drinking this special drink that they would be kept alert for hours into the evening.  They shared this new found drink with other...

Whipped coffee or dalalgona coffee is a Korean coffee trend.  Through social media as Tic Tok it has risen in popularity.  It normally consists of a thick layer of fluffy coffee, layered on top of iced milk.  Total ingredients are normally instant coffee, sugar, water and milk.  It has gained popularity during the Coronavirus and became known as the quarantine coffee.         Basic procedures for making the whipped coffee is listed below.  It is often made with variations of this procedure and differs depending on who explains it.  For a simple basic ingredients include: 2 tablespoons of instant coffee 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar 2...

Who would have guessed that a few years ago we would be in the coffee roasting business! August 7th 2019, Cherry Blend Coffee Roasters became a reality! Having spent months training, learning from others, ordering our roaster, coffee bags, labels, green coffee, and many more items too numerous to mention in this blog, we opened our doors.  Our goal then as well as today is to provide fresh roasted coffee that tastes the best possible at a fair price for people to make in their homes and businesses. Traveling through various states, meeting and talking to different coffee bean roasters,...