Read about it. Be informed.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/transfairpr1-10-10.pdf

and you can sign the petition here

Rebecca wanted me to update the blog. I wonder if this is what she meant? Here she is getting ready to rock the bar at Spokes in Little Rock. High end bike shop meets cool espresso bar. Rebecca was able to get in an afternoon road ride on a really nice Orbea road bike.

Wow, 2010 is almost over and there  are some things I need to cover. Here are a few in no particular order.

Moab, Utah. Penny and Wes. Go there.

Dario. No one else even comes close.

Bike racing is cool. Cross racing is awesome. Riverstone/Doma womens cycling team is awesomeness squared. Thanks for letting us be a part of it.

59cafe. A very cool business in Coeur d’Alene. Welcome.

It seems like you could substitute the words coffee roaster and frame builder, doesn’t it?

Stay tuned.

How cool is this? Answer: very. I suggest checking out the website. 59 cafe is located in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and more info can be found here – 59cafe.com/59/index.html

No we don’t mean that he is quitting his job to move to Southern California…we are talking about Santa’s Little Helper.

We have sold out for this year!

It looks like Santa needed a bit more help than we expected.

The 2010 limited edition bag, illustrated and printed by Chris Dreyer of Dreyerpress, was a huge hit worldwide.  If you still are trying to get one, ask at your favorite shop that sells DOMA Coffee.  Give us a call to find out who still has a few left.

I found this on some cool Italian website, now we just need some plywood.

Starting it off.

Maybe I haven’t mentioned how much I like this place. Penny and Wes rule the Muffin, if you know what I mean.

Well, just because.

Palermo. Italy. Espresso cups.

OK, this isn’t completely true. I was just trying to fool some of the other roasters out there.

Our 2010 seasonal release is available now.  This sells out every year so get your gift list ready.

Get a bag of this dark roasted, fair trade, organic Sumatra shipped anywhere in the U.S. for $16.50.

Just give us a call (208.667.1267) to reserve your bags… let us know when you want them to arrive and your shopping is done!

You can order bags for everybody on your gift list with one call.

A perfect way to make sure your friends and family get the help they need during the holidays.

This bag will also be available on the web, but we can’t give the special shipping rate on the web.

SpoCOOL: Fact finding mission to DOMA
A POST BY MACK SALMON
Nov 19th, 2010
We love us some DOMA coffe and, evidently, so do you. Recently we made the trek to the tundras of Post Falls to see if the quality of the coffee really is a result of the magic happening behind the scenes.

In short, it is. This is a roaster that actually will trade you coffee for vinyl records, so of course it is. When you see the passion the boys and girls at DOMA have for their products, everything just adds up perfectly.

Everybody is into the “free trade” and “organic” these days, though those words are becoming more and more hollow. You can easily circumvent the system and stamp the labels on on your products to make good business if you know how to play the game.

DOMA, meanwhile, really does make longterm commitment to their farmers, and strive to work with them on a very personal level. To me, it seems that the quality of DOMA’s coffee is tied to the personal care, all the way from making good and fair business with the farmers, to the way of the roasting. As a consumer it is a care you probably should expect, or at least want, but it’s a rarity to see it executed as well as it is at DOMA. This all while their brains are churning for the future.

Talking about the superbly tasty Olde Bongwater Hemp Porter, it sounds like DOMA might have some further plans on marrying beer and coffee yet again, something we at Team SpoCOOL strongly support. (In fact, if in Missoula, make sure to check out the brewery behind that aforementioned get, Kettle House Brewing Company.)

There are other plans, many plans, still being formed, all that can be summed up this way: They all show an almost kidlike enthusiasm DOMA has for its coffee. Their product is a labor of love, and it is obvious that the company will keep evolving by improving their current processes while traveling down new avenues.

Let’s just sum this up by a little meditation:

When we stepped into their offices, we arrived in the middle of a barrista training session. Here the up and coming coffee shop workers were trained how to properly make espresso based drinks, while getting a good overview of DOMA as a company. It’s a fairly intense training and it’s what our little area needs more of.

Coffee culture here consists largely of drive through coffee where milk and syrup is used to hide the flavor of the coffee. DOMA is doing its share to change that. That’s why we like them, and that is likely why you picked them as the area’s best roaster. There are other good local roasters, sure, but none as unique and, frankly, as good as DOMA.

BEST COFFEE SHOP/BAKERY

1. Taste Cafe
2. Rockwood Bakery
3. Atticus Coffee and Gifts
4. Lindaman’s
5. Madeleine’s Cafe
6. Rocket Bakery

Look at the top five, and what do they all have in common? They all serve locally roasted coffee, and if you’re looking for another commonality in the voting here, they all carry DOMA in one form or other.

Taste, despite traffic issues, just barely managed to inch out Rockwood and Atticus, though had we kept the polls open, odds are that the three of them would rotate spots. This is, of course, not a bad thing, and it looks like the cafe culture might be picking up around here.

BEST COFFEE ROASTER

1. DOMA Coffee
2. Bumper Crop
3. Thomas Hammer
4. Roast House Coffee
5. 4 Seasons Coffee
6. Craven’s Coffee

There was no competition here: It was DOMA all the way, then there was the rest. More interesting was Roast House, a new kid on the block, jumping into #4 with a bullet. Odds are we’ll be seeing more of them in the future.