Caffeine
100 varieties of coffee beans, the world’s largest selection, available to you unroasted or in your choice of six roasts.
Our café-roastery
Enjoy fine coffee roasted on site amidst Canada’s largest selection of coffee paraphernalia. Try our food and dessert offerings, too.
Equipment
Home roasters, coffee syphons, French presses, espresso machines, grinders and all the accessories you can imagine are found both in store and in our online catalog.
WHO WE ARE
Green Beanery has a mission, one that extends beyond the commercial (not that we aren’t proud to have become Canada's largest online retailer of coffee and coffee equipment, offering more varieties of coffee beans than any other retailer in the world and selling more coffee paraphernalia than any other Canadian retailer).
Green Beanery aims to reinvent the coffee shop of old. Until the 1920s, when big business began to take over the coffee industry, all coffee shops roasted their own. Green Beanery is helping to spur a renaissance in local roasting by supplying hundreds of micro-roasters and restaurants, and leading by example by roasting all of our own coffee, too, at our café-roastery at 565 Bloor St West in Toronto’s Annex district.
The renaissance includes returning coffee shops to the service of the community, providing a place to sip small luxuries in an atmosphere large with comforts for both mind and palate. You won’t find Wi-Fi in our café ̶ our patrons place a premium on conversations and conviviality.
The renaissance also includes reviving the coffee shop as change agent. Coffee shops of old were known for great innovations and passionate discourse ̶ this is where Lloyd’s of London launched the insurance industry, and where social revolutions were born. In that spirit, Green Beanery hosts Grounds for Thought, a discussion series held the last Tuesday of every month, for those who relish having their intellect provoked and entertained. Details of our next presentation can be found below. Fittingly, Green Beanery is owned by Probe International, a Canadian charity known for out-of-the-box thinking, whose directors have included many of Canada’s most celebrated minds, among them Jane Jacobs, David Suzuki, Margaret Laurence and Thomas Berger.
Favourite Beans
Roasted - Espresso Sweet Santa
$9.55
It doesn't get much sweeter than this! No sugar needed.
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Roasted - Ethiopian Yirgacheffe GR2
$13.39
About the bean:
Ethiopia, the legendary home of the coffee plant and Africa's largest exporter, grows remarkably varied and distinctive beans. One of the very finest comes from the Yirgacheffe region -- the only coffee allowed in the palaces of Ethiopian kings. Today, this bean, which grows in high elevations under a soft canopy of native shade trees, is developing an almost cult-like following among bean aficionados. Widely recognized as one of the world's most exquisite coffees, Yirgacheffe's fragrant and flowery citrus note sets it apart from any other bean you will encounter. Many compare its rich flavor to that of burgundy wines.
Roasting recommendation:
To best bring out Yirgacheffe's subtleties, roast it medium. Consider blending it to add nuance to other coffees. A few like it roasted dark: Yirgacheffe then becomes sharply pungent but very thin, bereft of all its flowery and fruity notes.
Roasted - Sumatra Fair Trade Organic GR1
$13.51
About the bean
Our Sumatran FTO SWP decaf coffee comes from the Gayo Organic Coffee Farmers Association, the first, and still the only, coffee co-operative from Indonesia that is Fair Trade Certified. The co-op members are small coffee farmers, working farms of one to two acres that produce 100% shade-grown, organic coffee. This coffee is SKAL and NASAA certified organic.
This coffee sells at a premium to allow the co-op to support a wide variety of programs. These include:
- Community nurseries to provide improved and grafted coffee and shade tree seedlings
- Rehabilitation of degraded lands and unproductive coffee trees
- A weed cutter program to help farmers avoid the use of herbicides
- A members credit union to extend small loans to families in the cooperative
- Upgrades to all processing facilities
- Community infrastructure projects, such as clean water supply
- Increased staffing and development of the association
Our Sumatra Organic coffee is full and rich and low in acidity. Its deep rich bottom has a subtle sweetness on top.
Roasting recommendation: Roast a little darker to bring out its bittersweet chocolate character. Excellent as an espresso. For an explanation of our different roasts, see here: http://greenbeanery.ca/pages/roasting-chart
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Roasted - Tanzanian Peaberry
$9.80
About the bean
Tanzania's premium beans, grown on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro near the Kenyan border, produce an unusually rich coffee with a light, winey acidity and medium body. The peaberry, which makes up only 5% of Tanzanian coffee harvests, occurs when the coffee fruit develops a single oval bean rather than the usual pair of flat-sided beans. The round peaberries are then separated from the flatter beans in the same crop to achieve this gourmet coffee.
Peaberry-grade coffee is prized by coffee connoisseurs for the uniform roasts they produce.
According to mythology, the peaberry is male, and is often associated with virility.
For an explanation of our different roasts, see here: http://greenbeanery.ca/pages/roasting-chart
Roasting recommendation: Roast darker, to capitalize on this bean's intense flavour.
Unroasted - Espresso Choco
$10.48
Two irresistible flavour forces come together in this divine blend. And, no. We haven't added Lady Godiva chocolate to the brew, just the best beans going.
Roasting recommendation:
Avoid very dark roasts to maintain the nuance in this blend.
Unroasted - Espresso Mello
$4.87
A mild blend based on a quality Brazil arabica for body and eye-pleasing crema. We add two other bean varieties for a bit of sharpness and a touch of the exotic.
Roasting recommendation: Avoid very dark roasts to maintain the nuance in this blend.
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