Our shipment of the new harvest from Bella Vista Mayan Women from Chiapas just arrived here in the Bay Area!! We had the amazing opportunity to talk with Rosalba and the women producers recently and have recorded it for all who have missed it. Hear their thoughts and dreams; and everything they are doing to grow the coffee you have been enjoying or ig you have never tried it hopefully will enjoy soon!
El Chorreador – Costa Rican Coffee Maker
Did you ever wonder how Costa Rican’s make their coffee at home? They are using the traditional Costa Rican Coffee Maker called El Chorreador.
Making coffee the traditional Costa Rican way is easy and creates a delicious cup. See how to use the Chorreador to make a great cup of coffee in just a few minutes. The video is in English and Spanish.
Let us know in the comment section below if you have ever had coffee made in an Chorreador and how you liked it. Maybe you even have one at home and enjoy a fresh brewed cup right now?
Starting May 4, 2020 we are offering local curbside pickup for online orders directly at our Roastery in Campbell, CA.

Local curbside pickup times are Monday to Friday from 10 am to 2 pm and we typically have your order ready within an hour after the order is placed online.
How does it work?
Join us on Tuesday May 5 at 10 am PST on Facebook Live. Hear from female Costa Rican farmers about the current situation in the coffee sector in Costa Rica and how they are responding and preparing for what its to come amid COVID-19.
We will make a replay available on this page after the webinar if you cannot join us live.
Listen to a summary of a discussion that our CEO Mariana Faerron had with Rosa Maria from Veggielution in San Jose, CA about how to compost at home and repurpose your coffee grounds.
We will have some tips and tricks for you on how you can do your part to help to save the planet.
We are making Shipping Carbon Neutral
Staying true with our values and our philosophy, we want to do our part to reduce the impact our business has on climate change. We are now making shipping carbon neutral.
We are proud to announce a new partnership with Pachama which allows us to neutralize the shipping emissions that contribute to climate change. What that means for you, you are now supporting an environmentally-friendly business that invests in sustainability initiatives to counteract the environmental impact of shipping with your order at Tico Coffee Roasters.
We are offsetting the total emissions generated by our shipped orders and offset them by contributing to acquiring carbon credits for forest protection initiatives to neutralize the impact. This will make every order shipped carbon neutral.
No more bad coffee at your office!
We know that it is a challenge to have great coffee at the workplace but we have set out to change that. And we have a solution for you with our office subscription.
Introducing the Tico Coffee Roasters Office Subscription Program
Our Office Coffee Subscription offers you our hand selected coffee blends shipped freshly roasted directly to your workplace, so you can enjoy them every single day while at work.
For the Office Coffee Subscription, we specially select and hand craft exceptional coffees. We roast fresh to order and the coffee will then be on its way to your office the very next day.
Peru Finca Rayo el Sol
Roxana Rangel Granda owns Finca Rayo el Sol in the Cajamarca region of Peru. Her farm has been cultivated since 2013, thanks to the support of her family she has been able to dedicate herself to specialty coffee and always achieves the best cupping scores in Peru.
We are humbled and honored to be selected as a 2018 Good Food Awards Finalist with our Ethiopia Gedeb Gotiti coffee. We are excited that out of 2057 entries our organic coffee was chosen as one of the top 24 coffees in the entire United States.
Golden Beans Rewards Program
Rewarding you is our favorite thing to do! With the new Golden Beans Rewards program you will get rewarded for all the things you already do.
Moving from Magento to Shopify
We just completed our move from Magento to Shopify over the Holiday’s and wanted to share some of our learnings and our migration experience.
About Tico Coffee Roasters and our online setup
Tico Coffee Roasters is a boutique coffee roaster, that craft roast sustainable, exclusive and unique Grand Cru coffees in very small batches and imports only the finest teas guaranteeing product freshness and consistency.
Our focus as a business has been mainly around Wholesale, but over the last few years we also have established a large following through our Online Retail on our own website – https://www.ticoroasters.com – as well as on our presence on Amazon.
Reasons for the Move from Magento to Shopify
We have been using Magento for several years and have been happy with it, but what we have learned over the last few years is requires significant effort and programming to keep the system updated and smooth running.
What is the Cup of Excellence (CoE) is a common question that we get asked all the time from our customers. People want to know, why we care about the CoE. Why do we support it? Well it is very easy. It matches perfectly to our philosophy, to our values and to our vision and mission.
So what is the Cup of Excellence?
The Cup of Excellence is a yearly competition that is held in various countries around the world to find and award the best coffees produced in those countries. It is organized by a non profit organization called the Alliance for Coffee Excellence and started in 1999 with the first competition in Brazil.