Raktajino

Ten Years of Coffee!

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Hello Coffee Lovers,

Ten years ago, I got the idea of roasting my own coffee. It was born from a combination of wanting to contribute to JenEric Designs sales and find a flavoured coffee that wouldn’t hurt my stomach.

This was the first ever coffee I roasted.

With this first batch, I decided to keep trying, and after figuring out the timing for adding the flavouring, I started roasting enough for Pop Expo 2014. I managed to roast a total of 10lbs.

Look how tiny it is:

We had 3 flavours available that year; Butter Rum, Cinnamon, and Chocolate Hazelnut.

The original Butter Rum was based on Spike from Buffy
Little has changed for Raktajino. Hard to improve on perfect.
Davroast was originally Chocolate Hazelnut but the flavouring wasn’t great and was eventually switched to Chocolate.

The price we charged at the time was $10 for 125g (a little over 4oz). Shockingly, with better equipment and suppliers, we were able to bring the price down about 8 years ago to $8 for 4oz.

There have been times I’ve considered quitting, but it is something I love doing. I’ll never be able to retire on it, but it’s a fun job.

Overall, we’ve been extremely lucky with equipment, suppliers, and especially clients.

Thank you for ten great years!

Éric

Brief Interlude 1

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Hi,

I know you’re anxious to get back to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to my Funeral, but I wanted to let everyone know about a new Online Store and what coffee will be available for CON Craft Fair and Cap-Con.

Gilove2dance Designs

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JenEric Designs has been sharing a table with Gilove2dance Designs for just over a year now and it has been great.

They just opened an online store so go check out their awesome store filled with Band of Brothers Merchandise.

Coffee

I ran a poll to see what 3 classic flavours I would be making for events in September.

*Drumroll*

With 13 votes:

Spiked Coffee

A Blond (Light) Roast with Butter Rum Flavouring
A Blond (Light) Roast with Butter Rum Flavouring

With 12 votes:

Davroast

Medium Roast with Chocolate Flavouring
Medium Roast with Chocolate Flavouring

With 10 Votes:

Raktajino

A Dark Roast with Cinnamon Flavouring
A Dark Roast with Cinnamon Flavouring

They will be added to our brand new flavour Jack CoCo’Neill and our seasonal flavour The Great Pumpkin.

A light roast with coconut flavouring
A Light Roast with Coconut Flavouring

A light roast with pumpkin flavouring
A Dark Roast with Pumpkin Flavouring

If you know you’ll be at either of our September events and want another flavour from our Coffee page use the form below to pre-order.

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    What Coffee do you want to pre-order?

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    Thank you and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to my Funeral will continue Next Tuesday.

    Éric