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Have we got a Black Friday special for you! Starting at 8 AM and going every hour on the hour till closing, we’ll be hosting public tastings of seven different Black Oak coffees, including our Heartwood, Ethiopia Shakiso, Duomo Espresso, Ethiopia Banko, Meadow, Ethiopia Chelchele, and Ethiopia Riakiberu. Additionally, ALL bagged coffee will be $11 ALL DAY! That’s a serious discount, and you won’t want to miss out! We’ve got much more planned, so stay tuned for the latest info on our Black Friday Special event!

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The Golden Bean hit the road and headed south from Ukiah, spending the day in Santa Cruz and stopping at Steamer Lane to watch the surfers and soak up some rays. It's how the little Bean stays Golden.

Another balanced breakfast

Kenzie's packing up those delicious bags of coffee and sending them right to your door.

Good morning, Sierra!

In this edition of *Meet @ Black Oak*, we're featuring Dharma Realm Buddhist University, a liberal arts college in the Buddhist tradition located on the east side of Ukiah. The accredited university offers a four-year BA program in Liberal Arts and a two-year MA program in Buddhist Classics. DRBU is a vegetarian and residential campus, located on the serene grounds of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. While the university's education is centered around discussion, the conversation often carries outside the classroom to Black Oak. Students and staff love to meet there to chat about big ideas, do homework, and socialize. Each year, new students are welcomed to Black Oak as they spend time with fellow students and professors over a cup of coffee. So many DRBU students and staff love Black Oak that it is affectionately known as DRBU "West." If you want to find out more about the university, online classes and retreats or local events, you can email them at [email protected], call (707) 621-7000, or visit www.drbu.edu.

Whipped cream is always an option, just ask your barista.

This year's Golden Bean award isn't into sitting on a shelf in our café collecting dust. This thing wants to get out and radiate its golden bean-ness far and wide. We caught up with it playing a round last weekend at the Ukiah Valley Golf Course, enjoying the fall sunshine and making mincemeat out of Hector.

Come in wearing your sticker proving you did your civic duty today and get 50% off any one coffee drink!

One of the Black Oak Tasting Club featured coffees is our delicious Snow Day blend. In honor of school closing, traffic thinning, and kids playing, say hello to Snow Day. Our holiday blend, like a day off to play in the snow, is comforting but lively, and absolutely reinvigorating. A blend of Natural Ethiopia, Sumatra, and Mexico Chiapas coffees makes this a rich, medium roast inspired by the cold season. More information about our Tasting Club here: https://blackoakcoffee.com/collections/black-oak-tasting-club

Black Oak Coffee, along with the Society of Children’s book Writers and Illustrators, are co-hosting a series of Craft-Ins at the cafe to celebrate National Novel Writers Month. Held on this coming Sunday Nov 4th and Sunday the 11th from 2:00 - 4:00 PM, you’ll have the opportunity to work on your project side by side with other writers and illustrators in a creatively supportive environment. They're drop-in sessions, so stay as little or as long as you want. For more information, drop a line to meeting coordinator Terri Nicholson at [email protected]

Introducing our newest single origin coffee, and one half of this month's Black Oak Tasting Club offering: The award-winning Ethiopia Chelechele. Natural processed and dried on raised beds, the sweet, lively Ethiopia Chelchele comes from the METAD coop, a collective of local farmers — a majority of them women — with a coffee-producing history stretching back nearly 80 years. METAD has made significant investments in the coop and the surrounding communities, supporting local infrastructure development and even building Africa’s only internationally certified coffee quality control lab. The bright start to this cup quickly gives way to unmistakably natural Ethiopian flavors of dried strawberry, and blueberry. Those fruit flavors fade into a milk chocolate that lingers into the finish alongside the subtle floral notes that are so unique to heirloom Ethiopian varieties. Learn more about the Tasting Club here: https://blackoakcoffee.com/collections/black-oak-tasting-club

Happy Halloween everyone! To celebrate, we're giving 50% off any coffee drink for anyone who comes in wearing a costume between 3 PM and close!

Lilly's a delicate sipper

This Friday, November 2nd at 12:00 PM, our very own coffee expert Tom Chandler will be hosting another tasting event in the cafe. This time he'll be covering not one but TWO coffees: the Ethiopia Chelchele and the Snow Day seasonal blend. Don't miss this opportunity to taste some amazing coffees and learn about their origin, roasting profiles, and complimentary brewing methods.

In this edition of *Meet @ Black Oak*, we're featuring the Caring Kitchen Project, an organization working through North Coast Opportunities in Ukiah. The project's purpose is to get teens (and adults) into the kitchen, cooking food for cancer patients via the Cancer Resource Center. They partner with many local food producers including Parducci Wineries organic garden, school gardens, community gardens, Mariposa Market, and the Mendo Lake Food Hub (among others) to source food used for the project. They also spend time going to classrooms and events to connect with students, as well as utilizing social media and local conferences to recruit adult participation. They meet at Black Oak for change of scenery, but it's also helpful seeing other community members (potential donors, kids, supporters) who they might not see otherwise. They also experience fewer work interruptions and feel less pressure when meeting outside the office. And of course, the yummy coffee drinks. Tarney's favorite drink is the Lover's Lane Latte, Teal loves the Cafe Borgia, and April's favorite is the Chai Latte. If you want to be involved, either as a donor or participant, you can call Tarney Sheldon at 707-462-1950 or email her at: [email protected] Find them on Instagram: @caring_kitchen or Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/NCOcaringkitchenproject

Heads up! For November's Black Oak Tasting Club, we're offering an amazing award-winning Ethiopia single-origin AND re-introducing our Snow Day seasonal blend. Sign up now to be sure you get yours shipped on November 1st! https://blackoakcoffee.com/collections/black-oak-tasting-club

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Here's quick step-by-step brewing tutorial employing a recipe that doesn't require the use of a scale, and can be applied to any drip brew machine.

Step by step instructions on how to make flash-brewed iced coffee using the Bonavita Immersion Dripper, featuring our Ethiopia Banko single-origin coffee.

Jon gives a little background about our newest single origin offering, the Ethiopia Banko. Why do we love this coffee-producing region so much? Why is this coffee special? Watch and find out.

Get yourself a bag of our latest single origin coffee, the Costa Rica La Rosa, then brew up a cup in the BonaVita Immersion Dripper using our special recipe.

Sierra has been slingin' drinks and making folks happy at Black Oak for a while now, and we thought it's about time we talk about being a barista and what it means to her. Check it out!

Another mindblowing recipe for the Aeropress coffee maker, featuring our newest single origin, the Colombia El Obraje

Mark is one of our most solid baristas, and I'm sure any of you who've been in the cafe over the last year or so have had an amazing drink made by this guy. Here's a little peek into his perspective as a barista at Black Oak Coffee Roasters. #WeAreBlackOak

Brewing for two with a Chemex Brewer. Featuring our latest single origin coffee, the Myanmar Moe Htet. #singleoriginlove #blackoakcoffee More about that coffee here: https://blackoakcoffee.com/collections/single-origin-coffees/products/myanmar-moe-htet

Here's some backstory about our Myanmar Moe Htet single origin and a bit about why it's special to us.

Here's a quick how-to brewing video using the Kalita Wave & featuring our Munyinya Hill Lot 1 Single Origin coffee