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Our YouTube channel is the place for us to share our coffee knowledge and one of our viewers, Ahmet, called us out to roast coffee in a pan. And we answered!

Check it out here!

Just finished prepping the new ice creams for The Charmery that they'll release over the next week or so. As we've been moving into regular production with David and Laura, it's been a fun challenge to come up with something interesting every production cycle. Typically, we're preparing about nine gallons worth of ice cream but in order for the flavors to come out right, we're also prepping them days ahead of time. Add to that the calculation of roasting, degassing and allowing flavor maturation of the coffee itself and we're actually looking at about a two week lead time from...

YirgZ G1 Natural - the first tasting.

While cupping coffees is a normal part of what we do at Spro, every once in a while you run into a coffee that is eye-opening.

Nestled along a tree-lined avenue in Towson is the headquarters of one of Baltimore's true secrets: Keffa Coffee. Keffa isn't a coffee shop or a place where you can go to get a cup of joe, it's the offices of one of the most exciting coffee importers in America, focusing on Ethiopian coffees. Run by our friend, Samuel Demisse, who works with connections...

The selection of single origin coffees and Fratello cigars.

I've enjoyed cigars long before I was "into" coffee. Starting around 1993, I thought cigars would be a good way for me to meet interesting and successful people and a long-standing brotherhood, united by the tobacco leaf, been a part of my world ever since. The cigar introduced me to friends who have become lifelong friends and solidified friendships I've had since my youth.

Coffee became a part of my cigar world when I moved back to Baltimore at the end of 1995. The old Rolling Road...