Working out of Brooklyn, NY, Mast Brothers has slowly been building critical acclaim and a widening fan base. They specialize in “bean-to-bar” chocolate, hand crafted from carefully sourced cocoa beans from around the world . Tried side-by-side, the post-fermentation smoked Papua New Guinea bar and the single farm Sambirano Valley bar from Madagascar have distinctively different and decidedly delicious flavor profiles – as do all their chocolates.

If you’re still not convinced, then take the opportunity to try some at dose. on Thursday February 9th as we lead a tasting of chocolates from Mast Brothers, Askinosie, and Ritual – paired with some fine coffees from our latest Featured Roaster, Verve Coffee in Santa Cruz, CA! It just may be an “ah-ha” moment for your tastebuds.

Coffee + Chocolate = <3
Thursday February 9th at 7:30pm
@ dose. [coffee & tea]
This is a free event and registration is not required!

When:  Thursday February 9th at 7:30pm
Where: dose. [coffee & tea]
Who:  You and your tastebuds! And bring a friend if you like. It’s free and open to all experience levels! No snobbery allowed
Why:  It’s free coffee and chocolate. And you might just learn something new…

We don’t offer many “signature drinks” at dose, but we do take care in the options we have. In fact, for the last year we’ve offered 5 carefully crafted syrups that we make in-house, including a Golden Syrup, which is our answer to caramel.

It’s essentially a thinned version of the British cane syrup, Lyle’s Golden. Lyle’s has been produced in England since the late 1800′s and is one of the last remaining sugar cane refineries in the world. They produce a rich but delicately sweet product that blends perfectly with tea or coffee. We like to use a dram in our latte when we have a sweet tooth –  it satisfies the craving without overpowering the flavor.

the Golden Syrup Latte [ 3.50/8oz, 4/12oz, 4.50/16oz]

For our January Tea Selections, we have two teas from a new source, SerendipiTea:

• Guatemala “Chirrepeco” – Black Tea
  First off, it’s a tea from Guatemala, which is pretty cool considering how many great coffees we’ve had from there. Second, it’s really good. Smooth and medium bodied with some nice sweetness, this is a black tea worth enjoying sans cream and sugar.
• Darjeeling “Makaibari Estate” – White Tea
  An incredible offering from the Darjeeling region of India, typically known for its black teas. This organically grown tea is beautifullyprepared and steeps up a sweetly fragrant cup with subtle fruit notes.

And if a couple of unique teas aren’t enough to get you going after the holidays, consider the newest addition to our chocolate offerings, a single-origin Costa Rican chocolate bar made by Ritual Chocolate in Boulder, CO. This 75% dark chocolate bar is nothin’ but cocoa beans and cane sugar and Ritual’s taste descriptors are right on: “High notes of blackberry, earthy undertones and a long, floral finish.”
Ritual also just received mention in the Jan/Feb issue of Imbibe Magazine, which also happens to be available at dose

Happy New Year!

We will be open 7am-5pm on Friday December 31st and closed on January 1st in observance of New Years Day.

Happy New Year!

We’ll be closed Christmas Day and open 9-5pm on Monday December 26th.

Merry Christmas!

Just in time for Christmas, we have a great little coffee tasting journal titled “33 Cups of Coffee.” It is beautifully designed by Dave Seldon, a beer and beverage nerd who runs 33books.com out of Portland, Oregon.

The book pretty much speaks for itself. It allows you to track the most important information regarding your gustatory journey through coffee and fits perfectly in your pocket. What more could you want?

If that doesn’t satisfy your last-minute gift-giving cravings, we have fresh shipments of coffee from the holy-trinity of coffee roasters (PT’s Coffee, Intelligentsia, and Counter Culture) on our shelves by the end of Thursday – not to mention the new shipment of 4 single-origin chocolates from Askinosie… And Dose travel mugs… And Stump TeaPots…. Ok, I’m done! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

We don’t talk as much about tea around here as we do coffee, which is really too bad considering how many great teas we actually have. A well brewed cup of tea can be quite refreshing and on these cold, damp,  & sniffly, December days – and it can be quite restorative as well. Here are three selections that we’ve been enjoying lately:

• Assam Mokalbari Estate
  :: A wonderfully dynamic tea. Assams are typically considered “breakfast” teas, and they take to milk and sugar well. However this one is great on its own too, with more delicately “bright” flavor notes than usually found in Assams (4oz/12) ::
• China Downy White
  :: Light, sweet, and fresh aroma and flavor. This white tea will take you right back to the warm spring days we miss so much right now. (3.50/oz) ::
• Fujian Iron Goddess of Mercy
  :: Besides having the best name for a tea, the Ti Kwan Yin style oolong is also a customer favorite. It’s got a great blend of sweet and toasty notes from its moderate oxidization. (4oz/10) ::

And, if you’re looking for a great way to brew these teas at home, or a special gift for a tea lover this season, we still have several colors left of the ForLife Stump Teapots (23/ea)!

ADAM DAY is the recipient of a 2010 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha. He is also the recipient of a 2011 Pushcart Prize, and a 2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award. His work owes a debt to the editors of the Boston Review, Guernica, AGNI, Forklift: Ohio, The Kenyon Review, and others. He is the recipient of a Kentucky Arts Council grant. He coordinates The Baltic Writing Residency in Latvia, and is an editor for the literary and comics journal, Catch Up. Currently, he is writer-in-residence at Earlham College.

HANNAH GAMBLE is the author of Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast, selected by Bernadette Mayer for the 2011 National Poetry Series (Fence Books, 2012). She lives in Chicago where she is the Poet-in-Residence at Children’s Memorial Hospital and teaches Literature and Writing at Prairie State College. Her poems and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Indiana Review, Ecotone, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere.

GARY L. MCDOWELL is the author of American Amen (Dream Horse Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 Orphic Prize for Poetry, and is also the co-editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice (Rose Metal Press, 2010). His poems have appeared in various literary journals, including The Bellingham Review, Colorado Review, The Indiana Review, The Laurel Review, New England Review, Ninth Letter, and Quarterly West. He lives in Nashville, TN where he is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Belmont University.

RICK HILLES is the author of Brother Salvage, winner of the 2005 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize (Pitt Poetry Series, 2006) and named 2006 Poetry Book of the Year by ForeWord Magazine. His work has appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, The New Republic, Poetry, Ploughshares; he’s been the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholar, a Stegner fellow at Stanford, and a Halls fellow at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He grew up in northeastern Ohio and is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Vanderbilt University.

For the next couple of months we are featuring coffees from Intelligentsia Coffee on our By-the-Cup menu! We’ve carried great coffees from them before and our current selections live up to the memory:

• Celebration Blend {Kenya, Ethiopia, and Colombia} :: Notes of orange peel, red currant, and mulling spices ::
• Anjilanaka, Bolivia :: Smooth body, flavor notes of apple skin and honey, caramel and hazelnut in the finish ::
• La Perla de Oaxaca, Mexico :: Creamy swiss milk chocolate paired with a lemon drop candy acidity and a light note of fresh blackberries ::

Intelligentsia is known for buying only the very best coffees and paying the producers/farmers very well for it. They spare no cost for quality and give the coffees a very light roast to open up the beans and showcase their natural sweetness. Definitely some of the cleanest and most pristine coffees you can find from a roaster in the the US.

Now brewing via Chemex and Clever in-store, and available by-the-bag to take home. And we needn’t tell you that they make a great holiday gift for even the most discerning of coffee connoisseurs

On a final note, we now have our very own Planetary Design travel mugs and Airscape canisters! These are not just aesthetically pleasing, they are actually well made and function great (we even use the Airscapes for our tea and coffee in store).