Trade Coffee, Keep Grindin’. Tried all the coffee you can find at the store? Ready for new flavors, new roasts, and variety in your daily drip? We are too. That’s why discovering new coffers, supporting independent roasters and getting new coffee delivered to your door that tastes realllllyyyy good is what Trade is all about.

Coffee done different, but better. Most often when people think of coffee beans they imagine Brazil, Colombia, and Ethiopia as the hubs of coffee bean production. Little known fact, Vietnam happens to be the world’s second largest producer of coffee beans. In fact, Vietnam is expected to produce 32.2 million 60-kilogram bags of coffee in 2019–2020, according to the USDA. That’s a heck of a lot of beans. One of those bean brewing staples in Vietnam happens to be a brand known as NGYUEN Coffee Supply.

Have you ever worked a night shift? It sucks. What doesn’t suck is a legit cup of coffee while working said night shift. Ok so you don’t have to work a night shift to enjoy strong flavors, bold varieties, and coffee combinations that will make anyone say “pour me another cup.” With solid coffee (and we mean good coffee) it can help keep your eyes open and your focus on point- no matter what shift happens. Because our crew loves coffee (and by love we mean live off of coffee), and because there is a brand making it named Night Shift, we wanted to try the blends offered by Night Shift Brewing to tie our whole intro together (ok that is not the only reason).

When our crew stumbles across a coffee brand claiming to offer something new and different we take notice. The crew over at Steeped Coffee did something that grabbed our attention in the coffee game: ground coffee filled steeping bags! Say what? Yeah- 100% specialty Direct Trade craft coffee that's hand roasted locally in small batches, precision ground to the micron, and nitro-sealed for freshness inside a steeping bag. Sign us up!

Ask your buddy what coffee they make or prefer to brew and we can almost guarantee they won’t say “oh, this little cup of heaven is an instant coffee.” Why is that? Well, typically it’s because instant coffee tastes like something they bring into space to eat- ya know, stuff that lacks a key ingredient: flavor. What if we blew your buddy’s (and your) mind with an instant coffee that tastes more like coffee and less like pit stop fuel? 

We poured over (sorry- layup) several coffee services and found one we thought was worth a shot (at it again) and asked our new friends at Bean Box Coffee if we could give their brand a go on a review. They said “cool beans” (last one promise) and sent us their coffee to try.