Campfire's everything under $15 Holiday Gift Guide

December 08, 2020 by Quincy Henry

Yes. Everything on this Campfire Coffee Holiday Gift Guide is under $15. Getchu some goodies, baby. Come on and getchu some goodies.

(Please Read) First a bit of business before we get to the goodies: Did you know that we do not outsource really anything? That’s right, we (and when we say we, we really mean Whitni) literally makes just about everything you see on the site by hand - unless it’s otherwise noted, if it has a Campfire logo, you can pretty much bet we made it. So when you’re getting a gift from Campfire, it may take a bit longer than an Amazon order but it really is made with love and care, and when we do work with other makers, you can rest assured that it too is not only a unique, cute, cozy little something, it’s also made by someone right here in our community. So supporting us is supporting them. Thank you a million in advance for understanding this, friends.

On to the goodies that you need now and you need in that $15 range to fill stockings. Order quick, shipping times are getting a little out of control, if you haven’t heard!

Mountain Top Espresso Blend

$14.99

12 ounces of espresso blend magic. With Central American and East African coffees, this is a well balanced blend that’s good for whatever method you prefer and made even better campfire roasted.

Notes: Chocolate, Smokey, a little earthy

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Campfire K-Cups

$14.99

K-cup lovers, we heard each and every one of you so let’s do this! These are 100% recyclable pods for starters (go environment!)

And these are jam packed 10 packs of our Best selling single origin Summer Camp, Starry night and beloved espresso blend Mountain Top so you can brew more of the flavors ya love.

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Dad’s trail hat

$9.99

We love these dad hats. Their just a great something you can keep in your gear bag and slap on when ya need to make a run to your favorite coffee shop and they’re good quality too. Tough enough for all the sweating you’ll do on a monster hike but still cool enough for the backyard BBQ. We also have some that are •oopsies• they’re kinda messed up but nothing you’d notice without some serious investigating. Not all colors are shown in the picture

Summer camp single origin FTO

$14.99

Fair trade organic Mexican Chiapas roasted with love. This is an awesome coffee we love that we first roasted during “Snowmageddon” of 2018 and we’ve been roasting it since. It was during the first roast session we discovered a cool way to process this bean to give it a little something extra. Working a little magic with the open flame makes this a little different than traditionally roasted Chiapas you may have tried.

notes: bright, citrusy, balanced

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The adventurer enamel mug (small)

$9.99

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Fireside Vibes Colombian Decaf

$15.99

With respect to grandmas everywhere…this isn’t your grandma’s decaf. This Swiss water processed single origin stands alone and doesn’t need a blend. It’s surprisingly bold for a decaf, it’s aroma is of chocolate and cinnamon and the flavor is a little sweet, nutty and chocolatey. And because it’s a decaf you can enjoy it ANYTIME! That’s why we named it Fireside vibes, you can enjoy this in front of a campfire at sunset mixed with your favorite adult beverage but get all the flavor of a solid coffee.

these 12 oz bags will go fast so stock up!

fair trade + organic

Trucker SnapBack Hat

$14.99

You. Know. You. Want. One!

Trucker hats are just too stylish and functional for the outdoorsy person to deny. They’re breathable, adjustable, and that tree! Oo that tree. Glamping in the backyard during quarantine? This is a must for those Instagram photo ops. We have more colors than is shown in the picture.

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Giving Tuesday Getaway Giveaway

December 01, 2020 by Quincy Henry

You’ve given so much to us in this short time, we’re happy to give back to you.

We’re just a team of 3 people. We run the shop, we source and roast the coffee, we make the swag you see online by hand, we create the designs, print the labels. There’s no way we could keep rolling without you all and it will never be lost on us, the herculean effort this community has shown us . From Tacoma, to Japan, every state in the US to Canada, you lifted us up and MADE Campfire what it is and what it is becoming.

And we thank you.

As a small token of that appreciation and in staying true to our overarching mission of getting more people into the outdoors, we are kicking off giving tuesday with a Getaway Giveaway.

A winner will win a stay at a Getaway cabin (https://getaway.house/portland) courtesy of all of us (ahem, 3 of us lol) at Campfire coffee.

In order to be considered to win, please fill out the form below.

(No purchase is necessary to enter or to win. Winner will be announced New Year’s Eve (December 31 2020). Prize cannot be redeemed in exchange for cash or other items. Winner will be notified through the email address provided in the form. Winner can gift to a 3rd party but 3rd party must be named in the submission form. We (Campfire Coffee, LLC) will coordinate with the winner on travel details. Prize does not include cost of transportation such as gas, tolls, rental car, bus, train or other fees associated with getting to the Getaway location.)

Disconnect Congolese coffee - A Journey

July 16, 2020 by Quincy Henry

At Campfire Coffee we’re very much about the outdoors so it’s natural that all of our coffees have a nod towards enjoying outdoor goodness, but the double meaning behind this Congolese coffee, Disconnect, hits different (as the kids say).

We definitely want people to disconnect in the general sense. To get out in nature and unplug from the madness our world is giving us, especially now. Disconnecting is good for the body, mind and soul. But disconnecting from one thing inevitably means you connect into something else. Disconnect from technology, plug into nature. Disconnect from wifi, connect with your old movie collection. Disconnect from reality, connect to fantasy and in this case, Disconnect from simply enjoying a cup of coffee and plugging into understanding the coffee.

We’re constantly on a journey for hard-to-find coffees and honestly, no region is more fascinating for this journey than Africa. As most people in the specialty coffee world know, East African coffees are some of the best in the world but, what happened to those delicious Central and West African coffees? I couldn’t help but think about the similarities between the West and Central African coffees and West and Central African people in Western society.

One similarity i’m interested in exploring is this: The history of both coffees and peoples originating from West and Central Africa have had their histories erased through trade in western society. A little known nugget about our modern history is that Central and West Africans were brought to the “New World” in the slave trade, in part, to cultivate coffee. Not just cotton and sugar like history books teach us. As Mark Pendergrast, Author of Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed our World, states:

“European companies imported slaves from Africa to labor on plantations in the Caribbean, Asia, and the Americas in what is known as the Triangular Trade. Barbados and Jamaica were some of the earliest British colonies, and slave traders provided the outposts with human labor from Africa to work the sugar and coffee plantations. Goods and people were moved in a triangle between West Africa, colonies in the Caribbean and Americas, and Europe.”

It appears as colonialism dissipated in slave trading nations, so did the spread of their coffees, and other conflicts arose which would halt coffee production. This affected not only the Congo but West African countries and the Caribbean countries like Haiti who at one point supplied upwards of 40% of the world’s coffee. Coffee production in Central African countries like the Congo region saw a sharp decline from the late 90s onward as civil war crippled infrastructure. But this seems to be almost eerily in lock-step with the story of the people in America who are descendents of those who were brought to the new world in the slave trade. The history of the people from this region as they made their way to the new world, much like the history of this region’s coffee in Western society, has been scattered at best and mostly lost. Disconnected.

Drinking Disconnect helps us bring more of these hard-to-find if not rare coffees to life.

A little context here, I had my DNA analyzed and it came back that a good portion it comes from Congo/Cameroon part of Africa, making this exploration all the more fascinating. I’ve been disconnected from the history of those I share DNA with just as we’ve all been disconnected from the beautiful coffees of these regions in Africa.

Take 15% off your next bag of Disconnect by using code: CONGO