George Howell Coffee

George Howell Coffee was founded in 2004 by veteran coffee pioneer George Howell. The company focuses on identifying, sourcing and roasting the highest quality coffees available, with a signature Terroir Coffee that acknowledges the influence of region, climate and farmer craftsmanship.

• —George Howell Coffee was founded in 2004 by veteran coffee pioneer George Howell
• —George's life in coffee began in 1974 with his first café, The Coffee Connection in Cambridge's Harvard Square
• —The Coffee Connection grew to 24 stores before it was sold to Starbucks in 1994
• —George started George Howell Coffee with the primary focus and passion to continually identify, source and roast the highest quality coffees available
• —Signature Terroir Coffee acknowledges and highlights the influence of the region and climate and the farmer's craftsmanship in every bean
• —George and his daughter Jenny travel yearly to many of the farms they buy from to develop and maintain real and lasting relationships
• —George Howell Coffee pays farms top prices for green coffees, far exceeding Fair Trade pricing
• —All coffee is craft-roasted daily in small batches to guarantee freshness
• —Green coffee is stored in GrainPro bags or frozen to preserve natural sweetness
• —Coffee is packaged immediately in airtight, one-way valve bags to preserve freshness
• —George Howell Coffee was the first roasters to package green coffee in vacuum bags
• —George Howell Coffee financed and introduced the coffee world's first coffee refractometer and software system, Extract MoJo