We are extremely excited to be working with Steeped Coffee, a new single-serve brew product. Steeped Coffee’s goal is to reduce waste, while still providing a high-grade specialty coffee experience. The Steeped Coffee pouch is fully compostable, as well as ultrasonically sealed, eliminating the need for glue or staples. We provide our specialty grade coffee to Steeped, who then precision grinds it down to the micron and nitrogen seals it for freshness and ideal extraction. Being a single-serve brew method, this means you no longer have to make excess coffee when you just need one cup. This is ideal for the one customer who wants just a single cup of decaf or to avoid using the sketchy hotel coffee maker on vacations. All that’s needed is a cup and hot water, which means you can take your favorite Repetition coffee virtually anywhere, without having to worry about having to lug around extra equipment.

We pride ourselves in upholding the same quality standards for selecting our decaf as we do any other coffee purchase.  Our goal is that you taste it and say "this is a decaf?!"  

This coffee is ethyl acetate decaffeinated: this naturally occurring ester (present in bananas as well as a by-product of fermented sugars) can be isolated and used as a solvent to bond with and remove caffeine from green coffee. First, the coffee is sorted and steamed for 30 minutes under low pressure in order to open the coffee seeds’ pores and prepare them for decaffeination. The coffee is placed in a solution of both water and ethyl acetate, where the E.A. will begin to bond with the salts of chlorogenic acids inside the seeds. The tank will be drained and re-filled over the course of eight hours until the caffeine is no longer detected. The seeds are steamed once more to remove the ethyl acetate traces, though E.A. is only harmful to humans in very high quantities (400 parts per million or more). The coffee is then dried and polished for export.

TASTING NOTES: SEMI-SWEET CHOCOLATE /// CANDIED LEMON /// PRALINE