Toltec Coffee

04/16/2026

01/24/2026

Flat burr all day long for the best flavor extraction. But, yes, I know, flat burr grinders are not low in cost.

12/22/2025

This is very good guidance on grinding coffee, we also recommend coarse for cold brewing.

12/19/2025

Hola Coffee Comrades!

So we have did a bit of profiling on the, new to us, Milenio coffee; and roasted up batch for sale. It is listing on our webpage as Waterfall 2.0, seee link below. It is roast to a medium-plus level which brings out A LOT of chocolate and raisin flavors; and It "cups in" at 88 points. We are please to be offering this variety to US customers, and at a very good price. (a similar grade Villa Sarchi variety would be $6.00 more a pound). We have a very limited stock in the US, but hope to get more into the US late spring/early summer 2026. So if you have any interest in this coffee, order quick as it will sell out.

Waterfall is a single specialty grade coffee roasted medium to light with lots of body and fruit. (US only) (86 to 90 point coffee). This coffee is very hard to get in bulk and is for select tastes so we do very limited runs of it.

12/05/2025

"Coming into Los Angeleeez, bring'n in a couple of....."

Flying back to US with 15 kilos of a newly discoverd, to us, Milenio variety coffee from the highlands of Costa Rica. This is a hybrid cultivar which is very resistent to fungus, very high yeild and full of flavor with traditional washed processing. We'll be doing some roast profiling of it and are in line buy some of the second 2026 harvest. We may be selling a few 1 # bags of it in a medium roast if people have interested.

11/17/2025

10 years ago in Santa Teresa at the Organic Market. Fun times with coffee colleagues. Where are they now with their VW Kombi? NZ still?

10/20/2025

And it continues…. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/business/trumps-tariffs-local-coffee-roasters?Date=20251019&Profile=CNN,CNN+International&utm_content=1760867440&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcANiXCxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHnZBXQvH5n-rJRoC9aNKZAo7H0HmXYg6_Hp0rzK4R5fV7SfTBJ-vpd0eswJc_aem_Q_nhjjngrLlVtKY-LRK7Bw

Coffee beans may grow on trees, but the key ingredient to a morning brew isn’t found so easily in the United States.

10/06/2025

People often ask me "what is coffee cupping?" the industry standard for tasting and grading coffee, "...and how is it done?". Well here ya go. Slurp on!!

09/12/2025

Welp....we gotta do it, we have to raise our prices again. We just cannot hold out any longer, we are bearly breaking even with increasing costs of specialty grade Costa Rican coffee, and now we are facing a 10% tariff on CR coffee..... So, starting 01Oct prices on our webs will go up by $2.00 pound, from $17.00 to $19.00 which is approximately 11%. This is to cover the costs of new green (unroasted) beans that we will have to buy this Fall. Please order ASAP if you want to get in at the old pricing. And as you can see below, we are not alone.

08/25/2025

Green coffee bean prices continue to rise. Why? Many factors, climate, shifting production goals (production battles between Vietnam and Brazil), increased consumer demand in Asia, and now US import tariffs. Will Toltec have to raise prices accordingly? Sadly, yes. We have been very restrained with price increases since C19 but we have to raise them in the next couple weeks. The big uncertainty is by how much. We are trending market economics closely to see where things may or may not go.

"Coffee prices on Thursday extended their sharp two-week-long rally, with arabica coffee posting a 3-month high and robusta posting a 2.75-month high. Weather concerns in Brazil have sparked fund buying of coffee futures. On Monday, Somar Meteorologia reported that Brazil's largest arabica coffee-growing area, Minas Gerais, received no rain during the week ended August 16. Reports of damage to some of Brazil's coffee crop from last week's frost are also boosting prices.

Coffee prices also have support on concerns about tighter US coffee supplies, as American buyers are voiding new contracts on purchases of Brazilian coffee beans due to the 50% tariffs imposed on Brazilian exports to the US. That is tightening the coffee supply in the US market since about a third of unroasted coffee comes from Brazil.

Coffee prices have moved higher over the past two weeks after Brazil's Trade Ministry reported on August 6 that Brazil's July unroasted coffee exports fell -20.4% y/y to 161,000 MT. In related bullish news released last Wednesday, Brazil's green coffee exports in July fell -28% y/y to 2.4 million bags, according to exporter group Cecafe. Cecafe said July arabica exports fell -21% y/y, while robusta exports plunged -49% y/y. Cecafe said Brazil's July coffee exports fell -28% to 2.7 million bags, and that coffee shipments during Jan-July fell -21% to 22.2 million bags"

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