If the words "fruity" or "smoky" make you nervous when reading coffee tasting notes, and you just want "a real cup of coffee" with good, solid flavor - Jack's Feed Store is for you. Or maybe you're taking coffee to a family gathering and need to satisfy the greatest number of coffee drinkers' tastes. Jack's is your crowd-pleaser coffee, no question.

Jack's Feed Store is named after the farm animal feed, grain milling, and farm supply store that used to operate out of our roast production facility in small town Tama, Iowa. A throwback name that honors the past and perfectly matches the rugged, workmanlike nature of the coffee in your hand. Make Jack's a part of your morning ritual.

Jack's Feed Store at a glance

• Benefits: Easy drinking, crowd pleaser, robust flavors, 80% Direct Trade sourcing (see below)
• Flavor notes: Chocolate and subtle fruit notes and an earthy, rustic quality, complex, medium body
• 80% Direct Trade Components
• 40% Nicaragua Matagalpa Community lot via our Direct Trade partner, Gold Mountain Coffee Growers
• 40% Papua New Guinea PSC AX lot from the Sigri Estate via our Direct Trade partner, Benchmark Coffee Traders
• 20% Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Grade 2 Washed, sourced through our primary importing partner, Cafe Imports, Minneapolis, MN
• Direct Trade with coffee producers builds closer business relationships and helps ensure high quality and equitable pay for coffee laborers (See all Direct Trade coffees)

The former owner of Jack's Feed Store is still living just up the street from his old place of business. During the warmer months, Jack drops into his old shop to chat with Roaster Brian on his way down to the Iowa River to fish. Plot twist: Jack is not a coffee drinker!!