Article by: Dawn Lambros Growing up in Southern California in the early 1960s – the product of Sicilian immigrants, circa late 1940s – it would be a comedic understatement to say that coffee was a huge part of my life. By the age of six, I could break down and load up the family espresso maker like it was second nature! Coffee was much more than a hot dark drink poured into a coffee cup. In my household, coffee was plasma – it was our life’s...

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Did you know? …. To date, annual coffee consumption worldwide has been estimated to be over 400 BILLION cups and continues to rapidly grow! 400 billion cups translates to over 1.4 billion cups of coffee per day. The United States is responsible for almost 35% of the coffee consumption at 400 million cups every day! Do you have some coffee facts to share with us?  Contact us about them and we’ll happily add them to the website. We’re...

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Did you know? Yes, it’s true. If you haven’t heard the news, coffee is the second largest traded commodity, surpassed only by… you guessed it, petroleum… OIL! That makes coffee the world’s second largest traded commodity. There are approximately 25 million farmers and coffee workers in over 50 countries involved in producing coffee around the world. Coffee was traditionally developed as a colonial cash crop, planted by serfs or wage laborers in...

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Thank you for joining us at Mt. Si Coffee Roasters. We are very happy you stopped by! A little bit about us… Mt. Si Coffee purchases only  the highest quality Arabica beans from the best estates and small farms from East Africa, Latin America and the Pacific. Once the green coffee reaches our shores, it goes through several quality checks before it is roasted. We then roast small batches to ensure that each new shipment meets our...

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Mt. Si, a 4167ft tall peak on the western edge of the Cascade mountain range in Washington state, towers over the scenic Snoqualmie valley and the small city of North Bend. The mountain is a remnant of an “oceanic plate” volcano whose sheer rock face presents an impressive view to all in Seattle and the region to the east. The mountain was named after a local homesteader Josiah “Uncle Si” Merritt who was one of the early pioneers in the Pacific...

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Mt. Si Coffee Roasters purchases only  the highest quality Arabica beans from the best estates and small farms from East Africa, Latin America and the Pacific. Once the green coffee reaches our shores it goes through several quality checks before it is roasted. We then roast small batches to ensure that each new shipment meets our stringent standards. When tasting each batch we analyze the fragrance, aroma, flavor, acidity, body and finish to...

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