Hello Coffee Lovers,
As much as I applaud the movement to buy Canadian, there are certain limitations when it comes to producing coffee.
We roast, flavour, pack, and sell all from our home in Ottawa.
Green Beans
Any coffee company that tells you they are 100% Canadian is lying. Canada doesn’t produce any coffee beans.
We here at JenEric Coffee order our beans through two Canadian resellers: U-Roast-It and Green Coffee Co.
We always buy high grown and fair trade beans from Sumatra, Guatemala, Peru, Mexico, or Honduras.
Roasting
All our beans are roasted in the back yard on our custom built BBQ roaster (it’s only for coffee). The BBQ is Broil-Mate (Canadian company but made in China) and the roasting parts were from RK Drums (US company but the only one that made this when we were buying 8 years ago).
Flavouring
We use Lorann Flavouring, which is unfortunately an American company. We have tried other flavouring, but it’s the best out there for smaller bottles. We do purchase from The Vanilla Food Company, a Canadian reseller.
Packaging
Once we’ve worked our way through our current stock of bags, we’ll be buying new ones from Pouch Makers Canada.
Labels
We used to get all our labels printed at Vista Print Canada, which is the Canadian branch of a Dutch Company.
We’ve recently bought a Lien sticker machine so that we can produce them in-house instead. The company is from Shanghai.
We create our own designs and if we ever have the extra cash, we’d get a Canadian designer.
Websites
This blog and everything attached to it is hosted by the fantastic CanSpace. The servers and service are all in Canada.
For our Store JenEric Coffee and Crochet we use Square, which is American but has a free tier which is really nice. We’re looking into an alternative but don’t really want to add extra costs. Also, Square is really easy to use and works extremely well.
Overall
The products from JenEric Coffee are processed and put together in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. We’re trying our best to have mostly Canadian parts but it’s not easy.
I hope this has helped you understand the process a little better.
May your coffee be stronger than your fatigue,
Éric
