Dark Roasts

Working with farmers in Oku and Mbessa, Mocha Joe's own direct trade project has produced the first ever specialty coffee from the northwest region of Cameroon, Africa. Our French Roast Cameroon is an intense dark roast with a herbaceous, marjoram aroma and creamy, fragrant floral finish.

Through our efforts in Cameroon, we have been able to return thousands of dollars in organic and specialty quality premiums to the growers and sorters, as well as provide access to capital and infrastructure improvements in the region.

To learn more about the history and future of our direct trade project, see the Cameroon section in the menu and check out our Imgur photo albums for 2014 and 2015.

Royal Select Water Processed Decaf coffee is sourced from lots that the Royal team has selected based on cupping evaluations. After selection, the green coffee is pre-soaked in water to expand the beans for caffeine extraction. Unlike decaffeination processes that use chemicals, the beans are then introduced to a solution concentrated with coffee solubles that extract the caffeine without extracting the coffee’s particular flavor.

Royal Select Water Processed Decaf coffee is sourced from lots that the Royal team has selected based on cupping evaluations. After selection, the green coffee is pre-soaked in water to expand the beans for caffeine extraction. Unlike decaffeination processes that use chemicals, the beans are then introduced to a solution concentrated with coffee solubles that extract the caffeine without extracting the coffee’s particular flavor.

Surprise the coffee lover in your life with the gift of Mocha Joe's French Roast coffees! Our staff will hand select three pounds of coffee to be roasted and shipped SAME DAY, package them in a decorative gift box, and even include a gift tag, or forge your signature on a hand written note!

Please leave the text for any gift notes or tags in the comments section of your order.

Asociación de Productores de Café Diferenciados y Especiales de Guatemala (ASPROCDEGUA) is a producing organization with 664 contributing members, the women of whom have separated out some of their coffee to make this Women Coffee Producers offering. The producing members own small farms, an average of 2 hectares each, on which they plant coffee as well as other crops for diversification, including bananas, citrus fruit like oranges and lemons, avocado, guava, and cassava. The organization offers its members access to technical assistance and routinely provides services such as soil analysis, test farms, and social projects based on food security, education, and nutrition.

The smallholders of ASPROCDEGUA are from several different municipalities within the area, including San Marcos, Cuilco, Colotenango, Santa Bárbara, San Sebastián Huehuetenango, Sipacapa, San Antonio Huisa, Cantinil Union, San Pedro Necta, Todos Santos, and Concepción Huista.

San Cristobal works with over 260 growing farmers clustered around the extinct volcano, Cerro San Juan. When darkly roasted, we tasted notes of chocolate and melon.

La Llama comes from many small producers and is milled and imported by La Minita but exported from Peru by Prodelsur. One of our best sellers and a customer favorite, this french roast has a big and bold body, a sweet and rustic flavor and pleasant, mild acidity.