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Blue Bottle Coffee, a Oakland specialty coffee code with dreams of global expansion, is now offered coffee grown in California.
The association on Thursday denounced a initial California-grown coffee: a Gesha and Caturra mix constructed by Frinj Coffee, a new business from Good Land Organics in Goleta. Blue Bottle is offered a beans in 100-gram containers labelled during $65.
Good Land Organics was founded by Jay Ruskey, a longtime disciple of California-grown coffee and a viability. In a corner coffee-related plan with UC Davis, Ruskey helped harmonise a initial genome sequencing of Caffea arabica this year, an feat researchers consider could lead to a origination of rarely variable coffee varieties.
In September, Blue Bottle owners James Freeman sole a infancy interest to Swiss food hulk Nestle, that reportedly paid as most as $500 million for 68 percent of a company.
Justin Phillips is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jphillips@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @JustMrPhillips