Brands
A working index of brands produced or sold by the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company—the house H and H labels alongside the independent brands carried forward from firms the company absorbed. William R. Hoffmann first roasted and sold coffee in San Antonio in 1899; after the 1912 merger with Merchants Coffee the firm became Hoffmann-Hayman, and over the following decades the product line grew to cover house blends, premium tins, instant coffee, spices, tea, cocoa, and extracts.
Many of the lower-tier coffees below (marked with 1) came in with the February 1917 acquisition of Morrison Coffee Co. of San Antonio. For the corporate lineage behind these labels see Related Companies; for narrative context see History.
Coffees
- H and H Blend Coffee
- H and H Crystalvac Jar
- H and H Instant Coffee
- Anita Coffee
- Big Dime (10-cent packages) — documented 19 Aug 1917 wholesale roster
- Border Coffee (3–1/2 or 4 pound pails, with or without premiums)
- Broncho Coffee1
- Cafe Coffee (introduced 1932) — disambiguation: contextual descriptor on the 1932-era Master Chef Coffee wordmark (“Master Chef Cafe Coffee”); not a separate brand. “Cafe” suffix dropped by May 1935.
- Double H Coffee (1-pound package)
- Fancy Peaberry (1-pound carton) — 1917 wholesale roster; likely renamed to Menger Peaberry Coffee during the 1920–1923 Menger family-branding consolidation
- Jav-o Coffee (introduced 1954)
- Juanita Coffee1 (1-pound can, 7-oz can)
- Master Chef Coffee
- Menger Hotel Coffee
- Menger Peaberry Coffee
- Misa Coffee1
- O.S.T. Old Spanish Trail — coffee; USPTO trademark 261,672, granted June 1928; likely connected to or the same identity as Broncho; survives as “O.S.T. Fancy Santos Peaberry” bulk line on the 1942 price sheet — see Old Spanish Trail Coffee
- Sam Houston Coffee
- San Jose (compound of coffee, cereal and chicory) — USPTO trademark 261,671, granted June 1928; no specimens yet — see San Jose Coffee
- Spoon Coffee1
- Texas Girl Coffee
- Texco Coffee1 (1-pound package)
- Wesco Coffee1 (1-pound, 3-pound cans)