Brew the Best Coffee for Your Commercial Operation

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Does your commercial operation offer coffee? While many very small businesses are making the switch to K-cups these days, larger commercial operations avoid the cost and waste of these single-use products and work with expert coffee suppliers for specialty blends made to meet commercial needs. Lavanta Coffee Roasters in NJ focuses on specialty coffee blends, expanding our private market to our commercial customers. See all we have to offer for your next commercial coffee order!

Custom Everything
When you work with a specialty coffee roaster in the Northeast, you get to name your terms. Customize your roast level, packaging type, and labels to meet the unique needs of your commercial operation. Whether you have a large or small commercial coffee need, Lavanta can meet it! We happily supply green coffee beans, roasted coffee beans, and ground coffee based on your specifications, and will help choose the best products to work in your equipment. Need us to provide and service your commercial coffee equipment? Our full-service commercial coffee programs can do this throughout North America.

Fast Service
Nobody wants coffee from a company that drags their feet! Our service is fast, typically roasting in 1-3 business days and shipping within 24 hours of roasting. By minimizing the shelf time between roasting and consumption, we ensure the best tasting coffee! Our supply chain is strong and reliable, helping us to move over 5 million pounds of coffee each year! See why so many commercial operations choose Lavanta coffee roasters in NJ!

Competitive Pricing
This great service must cost a lot, right? Absolutely not! We make it our goal to be top-quality and affordable. By partnering with a diverse set of coffee bean suppliers across the world, we ensure that our products are affordable and competitive. In fact, we guarantee that our prices can beat any price you currently have on your commercial coffee supply, within the same quality range. By committing to excellent quality service and high-volume sales, we can keep prices affordable!

Ready to try out Lavanta Coffee at your commercial operation? Contact us today to find out how to bring café kopi luwak, Fair Trade, and Rainforest Alliance certified coffees to your commercial operation today!

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The Life of the Coffee Bean

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While most people are aware that coffee comes from beans, few people realize the many steps it takes to go from a plant to the delicious green coffee beans you can buy in bulk from our online store! Read on to find out the humble life of the coffee bean and how it plays a role in your coffee roasting process!

Coffee Beginnings
The coffee plant is versatile, able to grow from seeds, cuttings, or shoots. However, only some climates work for this sensitive plan, requiring a careful range of temperatures and plenty of water. A coffee plant takes about 5 years to grow from seedling to mature plant, at which time it can produce enough coffee beans to make a pound of roasted coffee!

The Fruit
Coffee beans are actually hidden inside of the fruit of the coffee plant. Often referred to as cherries, this fruit looks like a crabapple or very small cherry, and ranges from green to red. The best-quality coffee is handpicked to ensure that only the best and most ripe cherries are selected for roasting.

Cherry Processing
To get to the “beans,” the fruit and husks of the coffee cherries must be removed. This can be done in the traditional dry method, laying the coffee cherries out in the sun or another hot, dry place, turning them regularly, and ensuring they reach about 11% moisture content. Another method uses water to soften the outer fruit, then the beans are put through a pulping machine. After that, they are submerged into an enzyme solution that removes the outer layer and dried. These can be dried naturally, like the dry method, or dried in special drying machines for a faster process.

Quality Assurance
While these processes can be automated, having a human being involved in the process ensures the best quality. Those coffee roasters with the highest standard source their coffee beans from supplies who hand-sort and check for quality, such as discarding damaged or broken beans. Once the beans are ready, they are packed and shipped to coffee roasters around the world. Lavanta Coffee Roasters in New Jersey works to find the best-quality coffee producers around the world so we can share them in our store and sell those high-quality green coffee beans online!

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WHY HOME ROASTING PRODUCES THE BEST COFFEE

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Why Home Roasting Produces the Best Coffee
At Lavanta Coffee Roasters in NJ, we are coffee roasters! In fact, it’s even in our name. But, as coffee lovers, we know just how great a freshly roasted cup of coffee can taste. While we pride ourselves on our roasting capabilities and store our roasted coffee beans for the utmost in freshness, we also know that there’s “no place like home” when you love coffee. Read on to find out why home roasting produces the best coffee, how you can get started, and some special products to make it easier!

Why Home Roast?
Have you ever toasted a marshmallow? It gets warm, gooey, and lightly browned on the outside. It would certainly be edible, and likely even delicious a few hours later. But you know that the best bite is going to be right after it is toasted. Most foods work the same way, including coffee beans. If you roast coffee, grind it, and, and use it immediately, you will get a coffee experience that is out of this world! Unfortunately, this level of freshness can only occur at home, as the time spent packaging and storing the roasted coffee will slowly deteriorate its taste.

Getting Started
Roasting your own coffee is (relatively) easy. You start with green coffee beans and roast, usually 11-14 minutes, at 375-500 degrees. Some people have had success using a thick, cast iron skillet, others prefer to purchase a dedicated roasting device, which makes things much easier. Place your beans in the heated device and keep them moving. The beans will crack, much like popping popcorn, and will eventually start to smoke. At the smoke point, you have a medium roast. If you keep roasting until the oils “sweat” out, you have reached a dark roast.

Lavanta Helps
Many people find that their coffee tastes are different when they can experience freshly roasted beans. To experiment with a variety of coffees, check out our “A Taste Around the World” sampler pack, featuring 13 of our most popular single-origin coffees from around the world. Need help? Give us a call and we’d be happy to advise.

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