This Location In the local media & community we're said to be a must visit along the Jersey Shore since 1998. One of the few Jersey Shore spots not replaced by a chain. 318 Main St. Avon By The Sea, NJ 07717

Fresh Roasting Tip     If you go into a coffee shop and they have beans in bins more than 4 hours its stale.  

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Yesteryear Means To carry on an American history of fine craftsmanship.

Coffee and Tea of Yesteryear one of the last original coffee roasters and tea importers left. Our entire focus is coffee beans and tea products. One by one coffee roasters are leaving the craft for the restaurant business to develop different clientele. Jersey Shore Coffee Roasters now a restaurant. Barbaric Bean Coffee Roasters now a restaurant. Americas Cup Coffee Company now a restaurant. Hot dogs anyone?

Get The Most From Our  Roast Tip  You can find that most roasters will follow their guideline preferences for certain beans. When you order more than 5 lbs we will send you these most accepted guidelines.

Our Roast & Those Valve Bags  When our fresh roasted coffee enters the bag we know that were we to use a valve bag 60% of the time it risks failure. Our coffee beans are for drinking not storing.

Best Coffee of the Year  Best cup fetching over $150.00. Panama.

Famous Quotes Wilkerson on competition after being a national winner for best tasting brewed coffee. The Golden Cup Award.  "According to Wilkerson, there are a lot of other convenience store companies talking about good coffee and rarely ever delivering on it. “There are some convenience store operators who believe that all customers want is a ‘good cup of coffee’ at a cheap price,” he said. “We'll let them have that piece of the market, and we’ll continue on our course of capturing the discriminating customer that wants that really good coffee." Alert ! Who is Wilkerson. A big time chain operator ? He owns a gas station out west. Now that's one for the kipper !

Not Limited To New Jersey  You might ask," What are we doing shipping to parts of LA." Its just as easy to ship a pound of coffee to LA as it is to Tinton Falls. The USPS shipper brings the US small business closer than ever before. So you can get our products easily.

Independent Roasting Craftsmanship

Our business continues the American history of fine craftsmanship. Your coffee roasted, shipped that day, drink it with others in a couple of days. Hot air coffee roasting makes it possible by keeping it fresh unlike a drum roaster that bakes the coffee bean.

In the days of Yesteryear street vendors yelled to apartment houses, "Vegetables, fruits, fresh roasted coffee, and tea." With a few tosses raw coffee beans were shoveled into a bag. Upstairs some of the stoves had a roasting compartment and your coffee would be roasted, ground, and served. Serving the dual purposes of feeding the family, enjoying the intimacy, and off to work you went. Walking on stars.

People can roast their coffee at home. See the Hobbyist section of this site. The one consistent difficulty is controlling the airflow and achieving the right blend. Most coffee roasters aren't going to share their blend ideas, because its so costly to develop them. Its like a gambler who finally figured out the table. They (roasters) want to share in the profits first.

Coffee and Tea of Yesteryear is the original artisan coffee roaster in Central New Jersey. Our main product continues to be fine coffee and tea. We envision no change except that we will become able to sell fresher products as the year passes.

What we have that is better than 90% of the coffee houses in Monmouth County and Ocean County are the years in the specialty coffee trade. This equates to more sophistication of roasts for the palate of Monmouth County and Ocean County customers. Although home roasters are encouraged to buy our green beans we hope they may also try our roasted coffee and see what a commercial machine can do for them.

Roasting Fundamentals

Roasting is a story of coffee, tea, and beverages of yesteryear. Its about the heritage and refinement of products from our ideas. We would like you to consider adding these products to your shopping list. Only when you sign up will you understand, and experience, the sophistication of the tastes we offer.

It's new but you should try and see if its better. Try our products.

After roasting coffee on a commercial Sivetz coffee roaster 1974 using hot air technology I can say its better for the environment, my health, and my communities future rather than the commercial drum roasters of yesteryear and today.

Coffee roasted by hot air technology has a bright flavor unlike the baked, flat taste found in drum roasting technology. Drum roasting hasn't changed since it began in the late 1800's. It's pretty much a dirty process. Imagine a shiny new clothes dryer, and essentially that's the technology.

Our roasting and blending training includes the 2001 Specialty Coffee Association "science of coffee roasting courses." Praxis Werke organized and delivered. Chef school and working in restaurants in the D.C. and San Francisco area. But that's all in the past. Try our coffee and see if its not as fresh as we say.

Every one could try to roast coffee for fun. Begin outdoors and abide by safety rules. Wear goggles and whatever you do don't roast coffee in the oven or without a fire extinguisher present. The volatile oils and chemicals that roasting creates need to be managed by professional care.

Before you buy a home roaster ( most are hot air driven ) you could investigate this further you can go here.

Meantime, when you order have some fun. Win a free sample of our Jamaica Morning Blend by guessing what this man is doing and where when you order. To claim your reward write your answer in the box provided at check out. Hint: he's been doing it for over 30 years.

 but to really get into for the long run is quite another story. Try our products.

a store like ours and begin to order. You might find you need a few moments to orient yourself. After all this is not a cafe you see everywhere. That's it exactly, you can't find the staff that won't talk, making drinks from origins they don't know about, and have hardly traveled walking the streets of an unknown to tourists side of town. With this knowledge we make a different kind of product and we were to some degree made into different kinds of people. People associated with our store will probably never darken the halls of a chain store. Except for the use of their bathrooms. Or taking up space to get to the business next door. Arrogance can be appropriate when you have a history of positive performance, and we have that history of romancing the bean and tea leaf.