Mount Vernon

Coffee Profile

Brown sugar, baking spices, tobacco, roasted nuts

Origin

Indonesian & Ethiopian Mocca Java

What to expect from this coffee

Exported from the Red Sea since the 1500’s, this heavy bodied, deeply flavored and versatile blend has endured as a favorite for centuries. 

About this coffee roast

Our Mount Vernon blend is named after George Washington's palatial Virginia home and estate.  America’s first President was an avid drinker of coffee and according to his personal records and ledgers, also imported large quantities of beans.

In one order alone in 1770, he received a shipment of 200 pounds. “I will thank you also for sending me, if an oppertunity should offer soon by Water, one hundred weight, or even a Barrel of good Coffee,” he wrote in 1784 to a Philadelphia merchant who helped him import goods.

Washington didn’t settle for just any variety, either. In November 1799, mere weeks before his death, he ordered 150 pounds of beans from the Red Sea Port of Mocha, which at the time was widely considered to be the best.

Net Weight

285g, Whole Bean Coffee