SongBird Nicaraguan
SongBird Nicaraguan
Smithsonian Bird Friendly Coffee!
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Smithsonian Bird Friendly Coffee!
Fruity, nutty and chocolaty with hints of dried mango. Sweet without sugar, mellow without cream, it is a great breakfast coffee. This coffee is roasted to a light milk chocolate color where its bright and complex flavors explode into life.
Nicaraguan Coffee Review
92 POINTS - "Balanced, crisply sweet-tart. Lemongrass, cardamom, cocoa powder, rhododendron-like flowers, fresh-cut cedar in aroma and cup. The structure fuses sweet, tart and savory tendencies, enlivened by a quietly juicy acidity. Buoyant, satiny mouthfeel. The crisp finish is richly sweet, with notes of lemongrass and vanilla-like florals carrying into the long."
- CoffeeReview.com
An excerpt from The New Nicaragua: "Perhaps the only coffee presenting a classic Nicaragua profile among all of the nine highest scorers is Thanksgiving Coffee’s Organic Shade-Grown Nicaragua (92), a blend of the respected Maracaturra, Caturra and Catuai varieties meticulously processed by the traditional wet method. It is also the only coffee we review that is certified Bird-Friendly by the Smithsonian Institution, hands-down the most uncompromising and rigorous of environmentally focused certifications. The idealism and passion that drove the growing and farm management that produced this coffee clearly went into its processing as well: It is an impressively pure coffee. Of all nine coffees we reviewed this month, it most clearly represents the classic Nicaragua cup of tradition, with its inherent balance, quietly juicy acidity and buoyant, satiny mouthfeel."
- Kim Westerman of CoffeeReview.com
Smithsonian Bird Friendly Coffee
Migrating songbirds need a place to rest on their long journeys and shade-grown coffee is one way to ensure that their precious habitats are being preserved. This coffee comes from the Finca Los Pinos Corrales family coffee farm in Aranjuez, Nicaragua, which is a part of the Mesoamerican rainforest, a corridor that stretches from Panama to Belize.
Certified shade-grown organic coffee means that the farms are seamlessly integrated into the forest, creating a lively community of birds, monkeys, jaguars, butterflies, and more.
Thanksgiving Coffee and GoCoffeeGo have joined together to donate a portion of the proceeds, so that each package sold benefits the American Birding Association's programs in Central America and helps support the outreach of BirdNote. By drinking this bird friendly certified organic shade-grown coffee every morning, you are supporting these coffee farmers, the efforts of the ABA and BirdNote, and the countless birds they are protecting through community outreach and conservation.
Characteristics
Medium
Balanced
Nutty, Smooth, Milk Chocolate. Sweet without sugar, mellow without cream.
Finca Los Pinos
Corrales-Martinez Family
Caturra, Catuai and Maracaturra
Fully Washed
Aranjuez, Nicaragua
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Thanksgiving Coffee

1972
Paul and Joan Katzeff
- Macro Roaster of the Year from Roast Magazine (2017)
- Good Food Awards Winner 2019
- Sustainability Award Winner from the SCAA (2004, 2012)
- Best for the World from the B Corporation (2016 and 2017)
- Lifetime Achievement Award from the SCAA (Paul Katzeff, 2008)
- Outstanding Contribution to the Association from the SCAA (Paul Katzeff, 1991)
- Various high points from CoffeeReview.com

Roast Magazine's 2017 Roaster of The Year Award Winner!
In 1972 Paul and Joan Katzeff moved to the Mendocino Coast, established Thanksgiving Coffee at the Mendocino Hotel, and begin roasting coffee for the Hotel café. At the time this was their only account. They roasted on a Royal #5 twenty-five pound capacity coffee roaster. Sales were approximately fifty pounds each week at $2.50 per pound.
In 1972 Thanksgiving Coffee was just one of many cottage hippie businesses. Nobody had heard of specialty coffee. It was the era of free love, psychedelics, Kent State Vietnam War, Nixon’s Watergate, Jefferson Starship, and a renewed commitment to alternative energy by California Governor Jerry Brown.
Everyone living in Mendocino was having a good time or escaping bad times. It was a time the urban young got on the road and found rural America was still real. They liked what they stumbled upon and stayed on.
Thanksgiving Coffee focused on making a positive contribution to the local community. The causes were local and the business reflected the founder’s relationship to their community. During this time the California wine industry was becoming famous and California cuisine was all about Alice Waters and Chez Panisse. Thanksgiving Coffee grew up surrounded by this culture and a Roastmaster was born.
In 1974, Paul and Joan begin roasting coffee for The Thanksgiving Coffee Restaurant. The restaurant was sold to partners and became The Greenhouse Restaurant. Thanksgiving coffee relocated and was run out a building built before the 1906 Earthquake on the Noyo Harbor, behind a ship called the San Juan. The building stood on a dock. The company grew and operated out of these digs until 1987. Paul and Joan purchased the building in 1975 and the company still owns it today. They keep it for storage and also as a reminder of their humble beginnings and all the amazing old salts, cranky fisherman, and drunken parties that were a frequent part of their lives on the water when Noyo Harbor was just another ”Cannery Row” along the Pacific Coast complete with “fish houses” where local women filleted fifty pound King Salmon, iced three pound crabs and packed Black Cod fillets for shipment to Eastern markets to be smoked and sold as “smoked sablefish” to the Jewish Delis in Chicago and New York City.
Paul says, "All that is gone now but the memory still remains. I guess you can say, “those were the good old days.”
Through the years Thanksgiving Coffee has grown, but it is still a family business. Their son, Jonah helps his parents steer the ship and carry on the legacy.
Paul became one of the founding charter members of SCAA and served as the 3rd President. He hosted the first SCAA conference entitled, “Coffee Human Rights, and Third World Economies.”
"Through coffee, we support justice for our growers, our communities, and the environment. As an activist business, our work is to engage every coffee drinker on big social, economic and environmental issues. Coffee is our medium." “Not Just A Cup, But A Just Cup” is our message.
Mission:
To build a profitable community based company that provides meaningful work in a pleasant, safe work place, where employees take pride in the product we produce, at a wage scale that can support healthy life styles. To do this while benefiting the farmers who produce the raw coffee we import and roast, recognizing that quality of life and quality of coffee go hand in hand. To create a bridge between producers and consumers, leading to a greater understanding between different world cultures.
This the true success of the hippy ideals. To see a company with a mission, 45 years later never waver from its beliefs and contributions. We believe Thanksgiving Coffee is a roaster worthy of your cup.
- BLBarbara L.I recommend this productRated 5 out of 5 stars3 years ago5 Stars
This makes a great cup of coffee! All the right flavors.
Was this helpful? - ACApurva C.I recommend this productRated 4 out of 5 stars3 years ago4 Stars
Liked the understated nutty notes when using this for a cold brew.
Was this helpful? - CLCoffee L.I recommend this productRated 5 out of 5 stars6 years ago5 Stars
Great.. Buying it again
Was this helpful? - CLCoffee L.I recommend this productRated 4 out of 5 stars6 years ago4 Stars
Enjoyable and easy drinking, but not one that I would re-order. There are other I prefer much more.
Was this helpful? - CLCoffee L.I recommend this productRated 5 out of 5 stars7 years ago5 Stars
I really liked this coffee. Have reordered in fact! Smooth and chocolatey in my opinion. Look forward tot every morning.
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