Hygge

Hard to explain and even harder to pronounce, the Danish word "hygge" (pronounced "hoo-gah") has exploded in popularity around the world. It translates roughly to "cosiness," but it means so much more than that. So what is hygge, really? Read on to find out!

hygge means creating a warm atmosphere and enjoying the good things in life with good people. The warm glow of candlelight is hygge. Cosying up with a loved one for a movie – that’s hygge, too. And there's nothing more hygge than sitting around with friends and family, discussing the big and small things in life.

If you know James and Sara, they love to be cozy especially with a hot cup of something in the evening. Coffee, tea, lemon water. When creating our winter roast we wanted to continue with using organic coffee’s. We just so happened to have access to these two. The Papua New guinea is familiar to us and we really loved it the last winter. We went a bit darker this year for something different. It’s still got it’s Chocolate notes but with the darker roast there’s some spice and hints of vanilla. The Indonesian Northern Bali Blue moon beans have all of the classic traits like a sweetness, syrup, Chocolate and spice. Blue moon goes very well when blending for espresso roasts. On the other side this coffee bodes well as French press too. Both of these coffee’s are very well rounded and present well as a winter blend. There is a proximately a 4:1 ratio in this blend PNG being 4 and Bali 1. Both are Organic and both are Co-op based farming and processing. The Bali is Rainforest Alliance and Chimbu is Siane Organic Agriculture Cooperative.

If this newest blend sounds like your style we have a deal for you!

Pre-Order a bag of this coffee and we will give you a small gift bag. Included in the gift bag is another bag of Hygge with a couple Christmas treats and a small gift card. Which can be used online or at our market stall. This offer started Dec 03 2021. Get it while it lasts. 10 pre-orders available.

About Our Brand

Highwood Coffee is a micro roaster in Calgary Alberta, Canada. Our main goal is to lower our coffee production carbon foot print. We do this by purchasing energy from Bullfrog Energy in renewables and offsetting our personal and business use. We also deliver the coffee to our customers by Electric vehicle from that same Bullfrog Energy offset. For hyper local deliveries we choose to ride our bicycle or walk in some cases. If you have a delivery and want us to ride, throw that in the order notes! We will happily make time to do that. We also offer coffee bag recycling as part of our environmentally friendly endeavors. We do this through Teracycle. We have purchased a special box to fill up and once full we send it to them to do their thing.

Other things we try to offer,

• 100% post consumer Recycled paper bags

• Most of the coffee we now purchase is from Continental South America (shorter distance traveled)

• We try to carry local products like the coffee inspired gift tags, Lamose brand mugs. Or we offer longer lasting items like Keep Cup Stainless steel straws, mugs, accessories, Bravado Essentials all natural crimped coffee filters.

We stand behind the quality of our coffee. Every bag is intended to be at or above a SCA 80 points or higher scale. We brew each coffee 5 ways when testing using our tried and true recipes for brewing. If we’re happy we sure hope you are too!