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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...