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About
Us We
(Mary Whitney and husband John Barker) have been roasting green coffee
beans for years, keeping careful records. The coffee beans are
purchased in burlap bags the way they are shipped from producers.
Coffees from the Americas are shipped in 70 kilogram (152 pounds) bags;
the rest of the world ships theirs in 60 kilogram (132 pounds) bags. We
buy from wholesalers/importers who sell quality green beans, some of
them direct trade and/or organic.
“SHaBean” our roastery name is an
invented word/name, now registered. In the Americas many high-end,
single-source beans have after the name of the specialty coffee the
upper case letters (SHB). SHB stands for Strictly Hard Bean. The SHB
tells the purchaser that the beans have grown slowly at high altitudes
and have developed intense flavours. One also sees the designation
(SHG) on these specialty coffees which stands for Strictly High Grown.
But we have not yet invented a word from SHG.
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Mary Whitney and husband John
Barker who does what he is told at least most of the time!

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