Ethical Bean is a great coffee roaster: A bit about the company from their website:

We believe in global responsibility. Ethical Bean purchases only Certified Fair Trade and Certified Organic coffees. It is important to us that coffee farmers are paid a living wage for their efforts, and that they can afford the basic necessities of life, like food, shelter, education and health care. Fair Trade is about ensuring a sustainable future for coffee growers worldwide.

At Ethical Bean, we know we are just one link in a chain. That's why we also ensure that all of our business practices align with those we do business with. We use the same set of criteria in choosing our business relationships, locally and internationally, that we do in selecting our coffee.

We believe in environmental sustainability. Ethical Bean roasts coffee that is grown with an eye for the environment. With a focus on organic, shade grown and bird friendly coffee, how and where our coffee is grown is important. Our suppliers strive to leave the smallest footprint and to preserve surrounding ecosystems.

Here are a few of my favorite coffee flavors:
Ethiopian Fair Trade, Organic, Shade-Grown Coffee Beans
ETHIOPIAN (MEDIUM DARK ROAST)

Certified Fair Trade, certified organic, shade grown
Taste Profile: Never boring, often sensational. A complex cup of ephemeral aromatics laced with fruity, floral innuendo. Expect the unexpected.

Espresso Beans

Taste Profile: A multi-dimensional, full-bodied velvet slipper for your tongue. A stand-up straight shot. Marries beautifully with milk.

Espresso is more than a definition, a beverage, a neon sign, a ubiquitous offering or the bad joke that is so often served. It is a religion.

It is coffee purified, pared down, reduced and supremely focused in intensity... It starts with a suggestion, softly whispered. Beans are roasted, feathered in flames and smoke. Sifted and combined, coffees from every corner of the earth shake hands in agreement. Their assembly becomes like a welder's flux, fed through and flowing. Ground, heated, pressed and applied. Extracted with restraint to rest unadorned and unashamed in preheated porcelain. Coffee, kahwa, caffe... espresso = coffee2.

Ethical Bean Espresso is a complex, complete and consistent blend of beans. Deliberately roasted to maximize sweetness, body and complexity it is the Doug Gilmour of the '96 Toronto Maple Leafs; the perfect two way player tasting great in a lot of milk, a little milk or no milk at all. Smooth and nuanced with lush body and a long, lingering finish. Are you ready?

FESTIVAL BLEND (MEDIUM DARK ROAST)

Certified Fair Trade, certified organic, shade grown
Taste Profile: Dark, full bodied blend with a think chocolate-y richness and a touch of sweet delicate fruity notes.

Your San Francisco muse in a cup. A grounded yet dynamic and expressive blend with eight-octave range on the palate. Flavours of the Far East's exoticism, conjure memories of teakwood and spice, lovingly enveloped in earth mother sweetness with an echoing finish. Peace, buttercup.

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