Sweetwater Morning Monthly Florida Coffee Zine Blog

Why Roast Your Own Coffee? Roasting is an essential part of making a delicious cup of coffee—it’s what gives the beans the depth of flavor that you’re used to and gets them ready to brew. There are many ways to roast coffee, but the goal is to rais ...

Ti En and May pictured above during a January 2018 visit to Café Campesino Coffee Training Lab, our sister roaster in Americus, GA.Did you know Sweetwater - a local Gainesville, FL roaster - just so happens to have a cof ...

Organic Decaf Blends for the New Decade It’s a new year, a fresh start, and a time for self-improvement. We all love that little boost we get from a fresh cup of coffee, but for some, caffeine can also come with adverse effects. While drinking cof ...

Find amazing coffee swag to delight any coffee lover in your life! These choices, illustrated using a paintbrush and coffee, were inspired by our values of local economy, friendships and fair trade partnerships with like-minded communities and a ques ...

Easy & Delicious Homemade Coffee Cocktail RecipesOur favorite holiday coffee cocktails will keep you warm and extra merry this winter! Any of these festive, delicious drinks are easy to make at home. Now, who’s ready to get jolly?Jack FrostThis p ...

Buy Sweetwater Merchandise, Get 2lb Bags at a DiscountThis holiday season, we're incentivizing you to sport your Sweetwater love: Purchase Sweetwater-branded merchandise, and Get 15% off TWO POUND BAGS of one of our best-selling c ...

I feel it’s not a far-fetched statement to suggest that we live in a culture of “more, better, more." We all have desires for things we don’t currently have, which isn’t inherently a bad thing. We long for more income, more time, more travels, more ...

Local, Sustainable, DeliciousSweetwater Organic Coffee is roasted on Main Street in Gainesville, Florida, but we partner with farmers from around the world to reduce inequity. We operate with one goal in mind—to change the world, one great cup of cof ...

Tis the season for coffee gift-givingCoffee drinkers LOVE freshly roasted, fair trade, organic coffee. If you’re reading this, you’re likely a coffee-drinker, and you know this already. But even if great coffee has become the norm in your life, it's ...

Give them what they really want Just in time for the holiday season, we have a special gift option for anyone who wants to buy several small coffee gifts at one-time.  Introducing: High Spirits in EIGHT OUNCE bags. That’s right. One-half ...

Sweetwater is thrilled to host the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Cooperative Coffees Oct. 17-19 here in Gainesville.A cooperative of coffee roasting companies located across the United States and Canada, Cooperative Coffees is Sweetwater’s sole imp ...

Join us this week at the University of Florida’s Oct. 17-19 Coffee Research Symposium as we showcase our business model, brew up some fair trade, organic coffee and advocate for small-scale coffee farmers.Sweetwater is the lead sponsor for the UF cof ...