Reading Your Coffee Bag Part 5: Blend vs. Single Origin
The difference between a single origin coffee vs. a coffee blend is pretty simple!
Single origin coffees come from one location. Often, this is one farmer’s lot, but we’ll also consider a coffee as single origin if it’s from a cooperative of various farmers within a small geographical area that process their coffee in the same place. These coffees can be special to you for different reasons—you might appreciate tasting the differences between different origins, or you might like that you’ll know exactly where the coffee in your cup is coming from, or you might .
Blends, on the other hand, have multiple sources of coffee in one bag. This is done with intention to create a certain flavor profile. Some people perceive blends to be lower quality—like some evil coffee roaster is throwing all the stale coffee in a bucket and roasting that. But our blends (and most specialty coffee roasters’ blends) are curated experiences with an intentional goal in mind. Don’t think of them as worse—some coffees can even be blended to make a flavor that isn’t found in a single origin.