New Chef and New Menu Evolution at Mudhouse!
Meet our visionary executive chef Victoria Dunham. Since joining us 4 months ago, Victoria has been carrying out our mission to offer food made with the same attention to sourcing, […]
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Mudhouse Teams Up with Vitae Spirits Distillery for Coffee Liqueur and Chocolate
Earlier this spring we were invited by Vitae Spirits, a Charlottesville family-owned craft distillery making rum and gin, to co-create a coffee liqueur. Vitae founder Ian Glomski, a microbiologist, decided to follow his passion for spirits several […]
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Phil’s Dispatch from the SCAA World Coffee Expo in Seattle
Last month we had the privilege of attending the Specialty Coffee Association Expo in Seattle, WA. The event is a great mix of coffee roasters, retailers, producers, importers, equipment manufacturers, […]
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Port of Mokha from Yemen: Coffee Can Make a Better World
“Coffee is about people. It’s about community and how we sustain and support one another. This coffee from Yemen’s highlands has crossed borders, cultures, political hardships, and centuries of cultivation […]
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Visit to Finca La Cabra, Our Farm in Panama (Part 1)
Last month we flew down to visit our geisha coffee farm Finca La Cabra near Bouquete, Panama with our partners, Willem Boot, Catherine Cadloni, and Kelly Hartmann. The purpose of […]
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Maui Mokka & Our Trip to Maui
Last month we visited our friends at Maui Grown Coffee on the sunset slopes of the Pu’ukukui Mountains in the Ka’anapali area of West Maui. We are very excited to […]
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Our Head Roaster Eric Stone Advances to the Finals in Seattle!
We are fortunate and honored to have won a number of national awards in the past few years in coffee quality, roasting abilities, and company integrity: Good Food Awards, finalist in the […]
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Our Organic Limu Dabessa Wins a 2018 Good Food Award!
We are so pleased to announce that we’ve been awarded a 2018 Good Food Award for our organic Limu Dabessa from the Oromia region of Ethiopia. The Good Food Awards were “created to redefine […]
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Welcome Oscar, our Fellow from Costa Rica!
Meet Oscar Alvarado Freer. If you frequent our downtown coffee house, you might see him slinging coffee behind the counter. Oscar is working with us for a month as part of the 2017 […]
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More Scientific Proof that Coffee is Magical
Our phone was ringing a lot recently. Did we have the Kenya Gathugu everyone wanted to know. Ethiopian Hambela? When would we have more? Our production manager Phil got curious […]
View PostFun friends at Unpacking Coffee
Unpacking Coffee is brought to us by Ray and Kandace Brigleb, the duo behind Needmore Designs. They make these podcasts with a deep coffee background, and mad design, video editing, and […]
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Mudhouse Named Roaster of the Year for 2017! We did it!
Coffee is a dreamy way to spend time. It’s ever-changing, intelligent, sensory. It’s all about relationships. And it’s fun! A few weeks ago we attended the Sustainable Harvest coffee conference, […]
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Meet Finca La Cabra, Our New Coffee Farm in Panama
From Lynelle: It was December, warm, and I remember the sounds of children playing. We were sitting on a picnic table at Common River School in the Sidama region of […]
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Shenandoah National Park Trust is Brilliant
We choose a Pure Brilliance recipient each year whose innovative work positively impacts our world and often our local community. We think the work of our latest awardee, the Shenandoah […]
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Who’s Down with TNT? Thursday Night Throwdowns at Downtown Mudhouse
Thursday Night Throwdowns (aka TNT) are regular local latte art competitions happening all over the country. Schyler Cunningham, our store leader at Mudhouse Mill Creek, has taken on organizing and hosting the Charlottesville […]
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Our Roaster Eric Takes Home 3rd in U.S. Roaster Championship
In April we competed in the annual U.S. Roaster Championship in Atlanta, which takes place during the SCAA (Specialty Coffee Association of America) convention. SCAA is an annual conference that’s part-academic, part-field day…Think baristas and founders, large […]
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Mudhouse’s John & Lynelle Featured in Roast Magazine
This month Roast Magazine profiled John & Lynelle Lawrence, the owners of Mudhouse Coffee Roasters, in its feature on family owned roaster businesses “Family Matters: The Joys and Challenges of Working […]
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The Work of the International Rescue Committee is Pure Brilliance
Our Pure Brilliance Campaign Every year our Pure Brilliance initiative recognizes organizations and individuals that are doing meaningful, creative and world-changing work. We donate to our Brilliant awardee brewing […]
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Mudhouse’s La Mula CAC Reserve Geisha Named 2016 Good Food Awards Winner
“For a long time, certifications for responsible food production and awards for superior taste have remained distinct—one honors social and environmental responsibility, while the other celebrates flavor. The Good Food […]
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Coffee Expedition to Gesha, Ethiopia
We recently returned from a coffee expedition to the remote forests of Gesha, Ethiopia in December during their harvest season. Gesha is situated deep in the Kaffa District considered the […]
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Mudhouse Coffee Roasters Named 2016 Roaster of the Year Finalist
We are very proud to announce that Roast Magazine named Mudhouse Coffee Roasters a finalist in their 2016 Roaster of the Year competition for the Micro-roaster category. Congratulations to Propeller Coffee of Toronto, Ontario, Canada […]
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Converting Coffee into a Cure is Brilliant
When Joel Loving’s mother passed away this August from Alzheimer’s, he wanted to honor her in a way made a difference. Joel had the idea to donate the hundreds of […]
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Get Beautiful Finca La Mula Geisha for a Limited Time!
We are pleased to present a very limited amount of Finca La Mula CAC Reserve Geisha. This CAC Reserve Geisha from Willem Boot’s Finca La Mula is a 2016 Good […]
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Kopi Wai Ke Coffee Cherry Tea
This perfect April weather in Virginia reminds us of our winter trip to Maui this January. Maui has come back here with us in the form of an amazing raw coffee […]
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