We’re proud of our coffee!
All the coffee we sell is roasted by our friends and allies at Idle Hands Roasting Co in Salt Lake City, UT.
Together we work to maintain personal relationships with all of the people that produce and process our beans, ensuring they are compensated with a livable, profitable income.
Find out more by visiting @idlehandsroasting
Enjoy your coffee, idle hands are okay 🤞💛
As the oldest standing cafe in Boulder, Trident has been in the tea business for over four decades. Unlike other cafes, we aren’t content buying from the large Western-facing wholesalers. Likewise, we don’t buy from wholesale market vendors in origin countries. Rather, we work tirelessly making connections and building relationships with farmers and producers, directly exporting and importing from those who grow and make the tea itself.
This process involves constantly cupping new lots, making new contacts in foreign countries, building and maintaining those relationships, providing criticism and feedback on tea samples, and supporting the farmers and producers by paying a fair and sustainable price for their teas.
As a result, we are able to offer one of the finest and widest ranging selections of specialty loose-leaf teas in the country. We are proud of our tea program, and after tasting our teas, we believe you will be too.
If you’re looking for a juicy, clean cup of coffee that doesn’t shy away from being clean and bright while remaining extraordinarily balanced, look no further than this natural red bourbon from southwest Rwanda.
Winding through the lush valleys of rice fields in Rwanda’s Nyamasheke District, right along the edge of Nyungwe Forest National Park, you eventually arrive at the Nyungwe Washing Station. It’s a quiet but vital hub, where nearly 900 smallholder farmers deliver their coffee, some traveling from as far as 12 kilometers away.
Through hands-on modules in best agricultural practices and financial literacy, they’re building more sustainable futures. In recent years, the focus has turned to rejuvenating aging coffee trees. More than 200,000 seedlings have been distributed locally to help farmers replace older plants and expand their farms around Nyungwe, contributing to an impressive 3.5 million seedlings distributed across all RTC washing stations over the past three years.
Here, coffee farms stretch right up to the boundary of the national park, with plots ranging from just 150 to as many as 3,000 trees. Once harvested, the cherries are brought to the station, where they are carefully cleaned and sorted before being laid out on raised drying beds. Over the course of 10 to 14 days, the beans are meticulously tended—hand-sorted, turned, and raked—until they reach the perfect level of dryness.
Once the beans have been roasted by our partners at @idlehandsroasting in Salt Lake City, they’re shipped to Trident, here in Boulder, and are made available for you to enjoy.
Come try a pour over of this wonderful coffee in our bookstore!
Join us April 26th at 6:00pm on the Trident Back Patio for the second installment of The Tongueless Theatre!
—Classic silent films with original live scores—
This time around we’re showing The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari—a progenitor of the horror genre originally released in 1920—with original live accompaniment from @chromaspore
We’ll see you there :)
