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Public Domain’s Kona, Mountain Thunder “Cloud Forest” Lot--and 9 other coffees from 5 regions throughout the country--were selected as the first Good Food Award winners.

The Good Food Awards were established to recognize producers of coffee as well as beer, charcuterie, chocolate, cheese, pickles, and preserves with this premise:

We are thrilled to have our new Kona "Cloud Forest" Lot chosen as one of the five finalists in the Northern Region the inaugural Good Food Awards. The awards were established this year in San Francisco in the areas of coffee, beer, cheese, charcuterie, chocolate, pickles and preserves to, "assure consumers they have found something exceptionally delicious that also supports sustainability and social good."

Ahhh…Esmeralda. Regardless of the hype surrounding this coffee from Hacienda la Esmeralda in Panama, it truly is the best coffee I’ve ever tasted. Our Mario Carnaval lot #1 is very floral in aromatics with jasmine and bergamot primarily with a lemony acidity and some red fruit in the flavor. After cooling a bit, a very nice lime sweetness appears and complements the berry, pear and honey also on the palate.

Coffee is one of the most grown, traded, prepared and consumed beverage in the world. More than 70 countries on our planet partake of the dark brew, and most do it hot. I mean they heat it. Piping hot coffee is familiar to us like apple pie and Christmas, but for years I have counted myself among the passionate subset of coffee drinkers who like it chilled. This is not to say that I don't enjoy a steaming cup of French Press or warm, foamy cappuccino, but every once in a while (and with increasing frequency as our days grow sunnier) I have to have my coffee over ice.