Make Grounds for Health

We have the best coffee…and now we’re making it even better

On the heels of our international win for best new blend at SIAL 2011, Hamilton’s Speakeasy Roasteries partners with Grounds for Health to help raise money for their award-winning Cervical Cancer prevention program.

This fundrasing event is coupled with the launch of Speakeasy Cafe this Saturday June 4th at 445 Ferguson Ave. North

For the entire month of June, Speakeasy will donate $1 from the sale of every pound of our award winning Kochere Gayo to Grounds for Health. Buy 5 lbs and we’ll douible our commitment to $10.

Despite being one of the easiest forms of cancer to screen for and treat, cervical cancer kills more women in coffee-growing countries than any other form of cancer.

Women are dying from cancer that is preventable.

“Grounds for Health develops sustainable community-focused cervical cancer prevention, screening and treatment programs in coffee growing communities so that no woman need die in her prime from this preventable and curable disease. This is not only the moral thing to do; it also makes great economic sense. Research clearly shows the premature death of a mother in the developing world sentences her children – especially girls – to lives of poorer health, and fewer economic and educational opportunities. Lost productivity to the community is almost incalculable. We applaud Speakeasy Roasteries for caring about women around the word whose labors brings delicious coffee to our daily cups.” August Burns, Executive Director, Grounds for Health

Help us combat cervical cancer in coffee producing countries. Stop by Speakeasy Cafe between 8 am and 6 pm any weekend in June, or place your orders for Kochere Gayo through our webstore.

Speakeasy Cafe

445 Ferguson Avenue North

Hamilton, ON, L8L 4Z1

Saturdays & Sundays: 8 am – 6 pm

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Fresh roasted beans on-demand

“To-the-cup” brewed coffee

Espresso / Americano / Latte

Black,  green, & herbal teas + soft drinks

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The Golden Bean

Speakeasy Coffee is very pleased to announce that we were the Grand Prize “Golden Bean” winner for best new blend at the 2011 International SIAL “Coffee Cup.” Long live the art of the blend!

There were 30 finalists representing 7 different countries. Results are as follows:

Single origin

“Gold Bean”

CAFÉ QUINDIO S.A.S (Colombia)

“Silver Bean”

GABRIEL DE CARVALHO DIAS (Brazil)

Blends Category

“Gold Bean”

Speakeasy Roasteries (Canada)

Certified Category

Universal Caffe (Italy)

Story & Photo reprint courtesy of Gary Yokoyama @ Hamilton Spectator

Move over Tim Hortons, Hamilton just might have a new iconic coffee.

It’s called Kochere Gayo, and on Wednesday it was named the best blended coffee in the world at the SIAL competition in Toronto.

Kochere Gayo is the creation of Stephen Armstrong, owner of Speakeasy, a specialty coffee roasting and wholesale company on Ferguson Avenue North. “This win is fantastic,” he said Thursday. “It demonstrates our commitment to quality and is great for the Canadian coffee industry.”

SIAL is one of the world’s biggest food industry expositions, headquartered in Paris and held every two years in a different locale, drawing thousands of exhibitors from all over the globe. Armstrong isn’t sure exactly how many competitors he faced in the Coffee Cup showdown, but estimates it was in the hundreds.

There were three categories for coffee — blended, single origin and organic — and Armstrong says the blended category he won “really is the craft of coffee.” His prize for the victory? “The accolades,” he says “but of course winning a competition of this calibre will have a great affect on business for me.”

Speakeasy is a direct-buy wholesaler, meaning Armstrong travels to coffee-producing countries to purchase raw beans directly from the growers, roasts the beans and blends them here, then sells to numerous restaurants and cafés. However, you can buy his coffees, including the Kochere Gayo, online at speakeasycoffee.ca and arrange delivery (free in Hamilton & Wndsor-Essex) or pick it up.

Armstrong explains the Gold Bean winning coffee is a blend of Kochere Yirga Cheffe and Amaro Gayo Sidama (washed) coffee grown in two different regions of Ethiopia. He describes Kochere Gayo as a rich blend that is balanced and fruity, and has citrus, chocolate and pipe tobacco characteristics. It sells for about $19 a pound ($42 a kilo).

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