Peet Coffee is a specialty coffee roaster and retailer

April 22, 2008 | By admin In Coffee |

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Peet’s was the original inspiration for now-rival Starbucks. The three founders of Starbucks knew Alfred Peet personally, founded Starbucks in Seattle, Washington, as kindred spirits, and bought the coffee beans for Starbucks directly from Peet’s during their first year of business in 1971. In 1984 Jerry Baldwin, one of the original founders of Starbucks, led a group of investors that purchased Peet’s Coffee & Tea.

Peet’s has been much slower to expand than Starbucks, and has maintained (to some extent) more of its focus as a coffee and tea retailer, rather than a coffee bar, a distinction that has long separated Peet’s from Starbucks.

Peet offers many kind of coffee selections product such as:

Signature Blends

Each blend is masterful combination of carefully chosen coffees from each year’s harvest, combined to bring out their most flavorful characteristics. Signature blends such as:

Arabian Mocha-Java, Blend 101®, Espresso Forte®, Fair Trade Blend, Gaia Organic Blend®, Garuda Blend®, House Blend, Maduro Blend®, Major Dickason’s Blend®, Sierra Dorada Blend®, Top Blend®

Special Offerings

One- of-a-kind coffees, discovered by our coffee buyers as they travel the world. Bought and roasted in small quantities, and available for a limited time only.

Ethiopian Super Natural

Dark Roasts

The coffees are roasted to emphasize the smoky, toasty flavors of the roast itself.

French Roast, Italian Roast, Viennese Blend

Decaffeinated

These coffees are favored by those who want a coffee with rich, deep flavor without all the caffeine.

French Roast – DECAF, House Blend – DECAF, Mocca-Java – DECAF, Sierra Dorada® – DECAF, Special Blend – DECAF, Sumatra – DECAF

Reserve Coffees

Hand-selected and blended to our stringernt qual;ity specifications Peet’s reserve coffees represent the finest coffee selections the world’s producers have to offer.

JR Reserve Blend®, Kona, Kona and JR Reserve Blend Gift Set, Panama Esmeralda Geisha

The Pacific

Rich soil, high altitude and tropical climate combine with 300 years of tradition to produce excellent coffees with flavors ranging from woodsy to nutty and earthy.

Aged Sumatra, Indo-Pacific – Three Pound Sampler, New Guinea Highlands, Sulawesi-Kalosi, Sumatra

The Americas

Altitudes over 5000 feet, volcanic soil, and temperate climates with sunny days and cool nights produce some of the sweetest, spiciest coffees grown anywhere in the world.

Americas – Three Pound Sampler, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala San Sebastian

Africa & Arabia

The ancient homes of all Arabica coffee beans, Africa and Arabia have conditions for producing truly outstanding coffees with distinctive aromas of flowers and fruit.

Africa/Arabia – Three Pound Sampler, Arabian Mocha Sanani, Ethiopian Fancy, Ethiopian Super Natural – Three Pound Sampler, Kenya Auction Lot