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Trying something new is often scary, especially when it costs money.  But you never know if it's going to work without trying it so here we go! The first week in November, we opened a Retail Pick Up Location in Ellwood City PA.  It's just a simple place to stop and pick up bags of coffee.  We're making samples, grinding beans to order, and are available to ask questions.  It won't change the world, but we hope it helps. Why are we doing this?  Well, let's try something new!  People ask us all the time where they can pick up...

There are plenty of reasons people start business.  To make money, to share a great idea or to be part of a community.  One of our favorite business is By the Wayside coffee truck, a team we’ve learned to love through suppling them coffee.  Their answers to why start a business are inspiring and we are so proud to partner with them.   In 2017, this veteran family wanted to build a coffee truck to reach the community and support military causes.  (This sounds very familiar to us at Hunter Brothers… kindred spirits perhaps?!)  The mobile aspect of the coffee...

When your house is filled with coffee, sometimes it doesn't all get consumed and there is a leftover cup.  Or sometimes you just need and excuse to make another pot.  Either way, cooking with coffee is a great way to deal with these issues.  Thankfully there are lots of recipes out there using coffee in some way. One of my favorites is for Texan Sheet Cake.  Not being from Texas, I have no idea whether this is a traditional dish or if adding coffee to this cake is the "right" way to make it (like the age old debate about...

Is anyone else having trouble with time?  We seem to go from time standing still to absolute craziness.  And who knows what day or month it is (who can forget what year it is!)?  Spring simply mushed into summer and without back to school, football season, homecoming, and normal Halloween, it's hard to know where we are in the calendar.   But this fall, an odd thing is occurring. The days are getting shorter, the temperatures are falling, and the leaves are changing colors.  Not this doesn’t usually happen but it seems more pronounced this year.  Those changes are making...