Walk the Block Newbold CLEAN UP!

Come out on Saturday to add your efforts to making the neighborhood sparkly clean.  The Newbold Neighborhood Association is organizing a series of clean-up days; this one will start with a meet-up at 10am at Washington & 15th Streets and will move down 15th Street, ending at Ultimo Coffee for free mulled cider for the event participants!  Can’t wait to see you there!

Nifty Travel Mugs

We are super-excited about these fancy travel mugs – they came in yesterday and look ready to hold some delicious, steaming coffee.  Metal outside and ceramic inside, dishwasher-safe, keeps your beverage hot, so classy – what else could you ask for from your favorite travel mug?!

Get ‘em here for $18/cup.

Maestro grinder now available

Ultimo Coffee is excited to now offer a grinder for all your home coffee grinding needs.  The Maestro, made by Baratza, is one of the finest grinders in its class and features a conical burr set for consistent and complete grinding as well as multiple settings for almost all brewing styles.  Whether you’re dripping, pressing, siphoning, or aeropressing, your coffee will love you when you grind it in this little baby.

Available for $100.

New Coffee

As you may already know (or have tasted), Finca Nueva Armenia from Guatemala has been replaced with La Golondrina from Popayan, Colombia on our coffee menu.  This coffee was a huge favorite when we opened six months ago, and we’re happy to have it back on the roster.  This season, it is a bit more savory, but still delivers a pleasingly rich and well-balanced cup with caramel and chocolate notes.

You can read more about Counter Culture’s unique La Golondrina project, which partners directly with Popayan’s most talented and dedicated farmers, and then enjoy the coffee for yourself!

 

Coffee & Composting Event

Come join us this Friday and Saturday to talk and learn about composting…and drink coffee!

Bennett Compost will be hosting a Coffee & Composting Event at Ultimo Coffee where you can talk about reducing your environmental footprint through composting.  Bennett Compost is a small company based in the Newbold neighborhood that provides weekly compost pick-up in Philadelphia and works with urban gardens to put our waste to use.  Personally, we (Elizabeth and Aaron) are very grateful this little company exists, and feel much better these days peeling carrots and chopping onions!  You should be too….

For coming out to this event, Bennett Compost will buy you a cup of coffee; and what could be better — free coffee and composting!

Tim Bennett will be at Ultimo Coffee to chat next weekend:

• Friday, November 13: 11am – 3pm

• Saturday, November 14: 1 – 5pm

Also see the short note about the event in the current issue of GRID.  We look forward to seeing you!

It’s official

Coffee Shuffle

We are shuffling some coffee around at Ultimo Coffee this week.  Our upcoming lineup of coffees will include:

Finca Nueva Armenia – Huehuetenango, Guatemala (New Feature Coffee)

Shakisso – Sidamo, Ethiopia

Thunguri – Nyeri, Kenya (to be replaced by Ndaroini in the coming week or so)

Los Luchadores – Santa Ana, El Salvador

and for a limited time…

Finca Kilimanjaro – Santa Ana, El Salvador

and for a very limited time…

Esmeralda Special – Boquete, Panama

Philadelphia City Paper on Esmeralda and Aaron Ultimo

Philadelphia City Paper’s “Meal Ticket” gives a shout out to Esmeralda Special at Ultimo Coffee (making it’s return to Ultimo Coffee this Thursday).  We are also surprised and excited to share with you this comment from Hacienda La Esmeralda Owner, Price Peterson from the link above:

“It might be of interest that Esmeralda Special coffee is produced by Philadelphians. Susan Peterson was born and raised in Mayfair and Price spent 12 years teaching at the U. of P., before they emigrated to Panama 36 years ago. Our thanks to Aaron Ultimo for bringing a piece of our Panama back to Philadelphia. We hope you enjoy it.”

Also, Aaron would like to thank the Philadelphia City Paper for the nice little bit of recognition he got in the Philadelphia City Paper’s 2009 Choice Award.  He is flattered and honored to be on a list of the brightest food and drink visionaries in the city.

La Esmeralda Special – Boquete, Panama

Update:  We are sold out of Esmeralda until the 1st of October.  Please visit us on the 1st to insure yourself a taste of this very special coffee.

Ultimo Coffee is excited to share that next week we will be in possession of a very small amount of one of the most famous coffees in the world.  Since 2004 La Esmeralda Special from Boquete, Panama has been celebrated as one of the most unique and startling coffees of our time.  With shimmering notes of jasmine, honey, and bergamot this coffee commands your instant attention.  It is our distinct honor to be able to offer a very special micro-lot of this tremendous coffee to you starting on the 17th of September for as long as our supplies last.  Don’t wait to come down and try a cup.  Please contact us at aaron at ultimocoffee dot com if you are interested in procuring an 8 oz. bag of this coffee to take home with you.  First come first serve on this extremely limited coffee.  Available $5 cup/$30 bag.

Finca Mauritania is in

Starting tomorrow we will have a new coffee on our roster.  Ultimo Coffee is proud to announce that Finca Mauritania from Santa Ana, El Salvador will be available off of our drip bar.  This coffee comes to us from super star producer Aida Batlle who is recognized as an award-winning and dynamic producer pushing the bounds of what we can expect from coffee.  This coffee offers delicious notes of sweet red candy, caramel, citrus, and delicious sugary pastry.  Maybe it was our visit to the farm in 2007, but we can’t help but get terribly excited about this very special coffee and we hope you will too!