How we make great coffee
How you can make great coffee


We believe that great coffee starts with great beans. Our distributors provide us with the world's finest specialty coffee beans that are hand selected from around the world. Each crop is carefully processed, meticulously sorted, bagged and shipped to coffee distribution warehouses. Each shipment is selected through a unique taste-testing process called "cupping". During this process, samples from each shipment are roasted and tasted to determine the character and the quality of the beans.

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How we make great coffee

Once the selected green beans have made the journey to our roasting facility, they are stored in their original burlap bags and kept away from moisture and sunlight. Careful attention is given to the temperature and humidity at the time of each roast and we make small but critical changes, as required by different coffee origins. All coffee is not the same and roasting great coffee requires meticulous attention to detail.

Once the coffee is roasted, the beans are quickly cooled with air blown over the freshly roasted batch while stirring, until they are cool to the touch. This is an important step because smoke and gasses emitted when the coffee is just roasted can leave an unpleasant taste. The coffee is then allowed to breathe for one to three days, while the beans emit carbon dioxide.

On the third day after roasting, the coffee beans are now at their best and have reached their peak flavor. It is our desire to deliver Jameson Brown Coffee to you as close to this time as possible. Properly roasted, fresh coffee is an experience unlike any other in the world. Jameson Brown Coffee - an experience to savor!

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How you can make a great cup of coffee

1. Start with great coffee beans, preferably Jameson Brown Coffee.


2. Always keep your coffee in an airtight container and away from direct sunlight. Glass preserve jars make excellent coffee containers. Never refrigerate your coffee beans, and if freezing is necessary, always use an airtight container and allow the coffee to return to room temperature before brewing. Coffee's two biggest enemies are heat and air.


3. Use filtered or spring water. Coffee is 98% water and good water makes great coffee. It is a misconception is that boiling water makes the water taste ok. Not so. Boiling water removes impurities but does not improve taste.


4. Grind your beans only as you need them. Grinding beans is one of the most important steps in making great coffee and one of the most overlooked. A grind that is too coarse, too fine, or inconsistent will result in a bitter taste. We recommend using a burr grinder for a more consistent grind. Grinding your coffee too far in advance will allow the coffee to become stale much more quickly because more of the surface area of the coffee is exposed to air.


5. Select a good coffee maker. The last choice you will need to make is what brewing method to use. For taste and ease of use our recommendation is a "French Press" or press pot. The press pot is easy to use and makes a superb cup of coffee. Because the pores in the metal screen are larger than those in a paper filter more of the oils and the coffee bean are left in the water. The result is a richer flavor. There are, of course, many options out there. We encourage our customers to experiment. Find the one that works for you.