Inspired by Nicaragua, Good Trip Coffee Sets Forth with Ready-to-Brew Pouches

Andrew and Angela Oehlerking of Good Trip Coffee Co. All images courtest of Good Trip Coffee Co.

A good outing has a ability to expand a mind, revitalise a soul, and yield a kind of mental clarity that can’t be achieved when remaining stationary.

For Denver-based cold-coffee-focused association Good Trip Coffee Co., it was usually such a tour over a march of 6 months in coffee-growing regions of Nicaragua that gave married integrate Angela and Andrew Oehlerking their initial bearing to initial leg of coffee’s possess tour from a dirt to a cup.

“We started shopping immature coffee from internal markets in Nicaragua and roasting it stovetop. It sparked a deeper seductiveness in coffee, that led to a bit of an obsession, and we had to learn more,” Angela Oehlerking recently told Daily Coffee News. “That’s what led us to transport internal by Nicaragua’s coffee country, and once we got a glance of a tellurian story behind coffee, we were hooked.”

The integrate returned to a United States dynamic to switch career paths, attending last year’s SCAA Event in Atlanta and combining skeleton to emanate a new coffee association that now focuses on brew-it-yourself cold decoction packages. The Nicaraguan coffees in a kits are sourced from women writer organizations by a plumb oriented Nicaraguan roasting association Vega Coffee. Good Trip gains entrance to single-origin coffees from Rwanda and other countries with assistance from Denver’s Corvus Coffee.

Coffees are roasted by Vega or Corvus, afterwards shipped to Good Trip’s common blurb kitchen space where they are belligerent by a Mahlkonig GUA 710 and weighed out into particular heat-sealed filter pouches that afterwards sole in nitrogen-flushed, opening hermetic packages.

“We invested in a PAC Machinery sealer that uses a seven-cycle routine to get as most oxygen out of a wrapping as possible,” Oehlerking said. “That was hugely vicious to a whole concept. Since mutation is one of a advantages of brewing during home, we positively wish a Brew Bags to arrive to consumers in a freshest state possible.”

In further to single-origin packages, Good Trip is charity tradition mix packages in that spices and other dry mixture are churned with coffee in a 30-gallon drum mixer to emanate products such as a “Darjeeling Chai” and a “Mayan Cocoa” underneath a tradition line called Organic Infusions.

With low knowledge in product growth and consumer finished products in other consumer segments, Oehlerking pronounced some arrange of cold-brewed product was a goal from a beginning, nonetheless it took some time to settle on a decoction tote format over bottled cold brew.

“For a impulse we were severely deliberation bottling, though we were endangered with mutation and a hurdles that come along with a cold supply chain, all while shipping around a product that’s mostly water,” Oehlerking said. “I was also saying cold decoction brands cocktail adult on a clearly daily basis, and it seemed like a difficulty was already removing a bit swarming — nonetheless we positively still saw event to accommodate a needs of certain consumer groups.”

The compostable, ready-to-brew pouch, that is simply combined to H2O for a tea-like infusion, despite of longer duration, appealed to Oehlerking for a morality in prolongation and for palliate of use on a partial of consumers. “We were privately in a mindset of embracing simplicity, and from a business standpoint we wanted to emanate products that were intensely user-friendly and approachable,” she said.

“I felt like we was saying a lot of difficult descent techniques and costly apparatus out there, and that was in sheer contrariety to us roasting beans on a stove and enjoying life during a slower pace. Not that there’s anything wrong with cold brewing record — we’re both automatic engineers and positively conclude well-designed gadgets — though we knew that a consumer we wanted to pattern for would conclude morality and convenience, and competence even be intimidated by certain aspects of a enlightenment surrounding third-wave coffee.”

Each four-pack of Good Trip bags facilities tradition artwork, which Oehlerking sees as an additional indicate of split from other existent cold brands. She pronounced she also wanted a art to simulate a company’s joining to sourcing coffees usually from women writer groups.

“I wanted it to be colourful and talented and expressive, with a tone palette that wasn’t dim or manly though rather splendid and playful,” Oehlerking pronounced of a packaging. “Once we sealed on a code Good Trip Coffee Co., we envisioned any of a wrapping designs to demonstrate a ‘trip’ by a imagery, colors, and altogether vibe — that it would take we somewhere, usually like a coffee inside takes we to a opposite state of mind.”

Producers in Nicaragua operative with Vega Coffee.

The association is committed to sourcing coffee grown by women, although Oehlerking said finding a unchanging source for decaf has been a challenge.

“From a commencement of this whole journey, we knew we wanted to source from women producers. Gender equity in a coffee attention is a prohibited subject right now, though it’s also one that we privately have an seductiveness in,” she said. “I consider both group and women will wish to support a some-more estimable and empowered destiny for women producers, and we generally consider that women will naturally acquire a idea, generally given a broader context with what’s function in a universe right now.”

Nick Brown
Nick Brown is a editor of Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine. Feedback and story ideas are acquire during publisher@dailycoffeenews.com.

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