Merit at Local Coffee
With a drip coffee brewing system working, we have been sampling coffees from San Antonio. An independent coffee shop here is Local Coffee where we picked up...
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Harnit & Hewitt Co. Mocha Blend Coffee (Toledo, Ohio)
This one-pound tin comes from the Harnit & Hewitt Co. in Toledo, Ohio. Older eBay copy sometimes misspelled the city as Toldeo; the firm is a separate H ...
Large H and H Crystalvac jar, Georgetown, Texas
In February 2015 we added another large clear Crystalvac from Georgetown, Texas (seller dse61 on eBay). The original wire bail is present; the black embossed...
All About Learning Coffee
Over the holidays we read a stack of enthusiast, roaster-written, and history books about coffee—not company records, but context for how we talk about brewi...
Two-pound H and H shop bags (picker find)
Albert, one of our local pickers, found more Hoffmann–Hayman paper stock. Two of the lots were the familiar one-pound shop outers we have already written up;...
A very special factory tour — Menger family
We were able to give a very special visitor a tour of the factory—someone who had not been there since she was a child. She is the granddaughter of Rudolph M...
St. Mary’s Bulletin, February 1936 — H and H Crystalvac ad
The Bulletin at St. Mary’s in San Antonio is still published; this copy is Volume 13, Number 1, February 1936—cream paper, Gothic titling, church tower and c...
Hoffmann’s Old Time Blended Coffee (Milwaukee)
This one-pound tin from eBay is not San Antonio H and H stock.