Kopi Luwak (#)

„The stomach acids and enzymes are very different from fermenting beans in water. Mountanos says, "It has a little of everything pleasurable in all coffees: earthy, musty tone, the heaviest bodied I've ever tasted. It's almost syrupy, and the aroma is very unique." While it won't be turning up in every neighborhood cafe any day soon, Mountanos reports that Starbucks bought it for cuppings within the company.“

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Tea & Coffee 04/03 - Private Label Continues to Evolve (#)

„Mountanos Brothers Coffee & Lindsay’s Tea has a plant in South San Francisco where they do it all - roasting, blending, packaging and flavoring and blending of teas. “Probably where we’ve been able to build a niche is from the owner of our company Mike Mountanos, who has been able to do a custom roast for our customers,” Gigi Glafkides, the tea director at the company said. “He’ll do custom blends and coffee roasts, personalized blends for particular customers. It really is a private label program.“

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Tea & Coffee 08/00 - Private Label in the Year 2000 (#)

„In fact, Mountanos noted, a good portion of his private label business is now done for other roasters who have either run out of capacity within their own plants or who do not have the necessary packaging equipment. “Yet, with every increase in private label we also try to expand on our own branding efforts, encouraging customers to use our preprinted cups, for instance, sometimes, as I’ve mentioned, the two efforts can work together where we end up with our trademark in a situation that would have traditionally been private label.”“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)

„The spiced Holiday Blend from Mountanos Brothers is an interesting entry. For years I have wondered why coffee companies resorted to cloying, artificially flavored coffees when they could achieve wonderful effects by adding natural spices and other dried ingredients to whole bean coffees, just as blenders have done for centuries with teas. Natural ingredients like vanilla bean, cinnamon stick, orange zest, star anise, etc.“

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TINY JOY JUNE-JULY 00 (#)

„I think our broad range of suppliers is a natural outgrowth of my daily cuppings, and letting the cup reign supreme! There are suppliers to the home roaster that purchase entirely from one source, and one that is a source (the broker MP Mountanos is the corporate hand behind the "Home Coffee Roaster" web site) so clearly they aren't going to be shopping their competition for better coffees.“

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Café Forum| Northern CA Coffee Companies | Page 1 (#)

„Family owned for four generations, Mountanos Brothers Coffee Company and Linsay's Teas has built a thriving business based on quality, consistency, and variety. We offer freshly roasted coffee, organically-grown coffee, and fair trade certified coffee. Our teas are premium teas sourced from the world's finest tea gardens and are available in loose-leaf or tea-bag form.“

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Further Reading and Resources (#)

„The Home Roaster Coffee is run by the roasting arm of a broker called Mountanos. They are big, and seem to be devoting some resources to being THE home roasting supplier. Given this, and their access to coffee at cheaper prices, their prices should be lower than mine but they sure don't seem to be.“

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Tea & Coffee 08/00 - Private Label in the Year 2000 (cont.) (#)

„Companies cited: Gavina; Allann Brothers Coffee Company, Inc., Distant Lands Coffee Roaster in Tyler, TX, Mountanos Bros. Coffee Co.“

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