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A lot of things we create are collaborations, and our newest DEEP all-seasons coffee is a great example. As the DEEP coffee line evolved to a year-round brew, we revamped our label art with the talents of both graphic designer and genius Shelly Tansy (owner at CrowberryCo.) and Mike Daniel, founder and design director at Bunkhouse Collective.   Mike originally created the mountain sketch you’ll see on the forefront of the new label for Protect Our Winters (POW), the organization that inspired this coffee. Shelly married the mountain art with a color scheme meant to evoke feelings you can get...

November is a time for reflecting and giving, but DOMA Coffee gives to organizations throughout the year. Sometimes, a portion of our coffee sales from a specific coffee go to support a specific group, like how our La Bicicletta coffee fueled cycling teams. Other times, we make a direct donation to a group, like Spokane Riverkeeper, or create a fundraising item for an event, like a coffee roasted just for our local literary festival, GetLit! We’re committed to supporting the arts, women, education, and environment that make up our local and global culture, because a healthy community can only be...

Earlier this year, DOMA's Ian Nelson traveled to Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, to take the Coffee Quality Institute's Arabica Q-grader course. Who’s Ian, you may ask? And what’s a Q-grader? Ian works on quality control at DOMA and helps us source and buy green coffee, which means he drinks a lot of coffee, thinks a lot about coffee, and works to make sure our DOMA lots are top-notch.    Ian decided about four years ago that getting his Q-grader license was the next thing he wanted to pursue in his coffee career. A Q-grader license means a person has achieved a certain level of...

DOMA Coffee Lab Manager/barista/superstar Kaiti Black shares thoughts on coffee, life, and the coffee life. The Pumpkin Spice Latte is a syrupy sweet coffee(ish) beverage infamously popularized in the early 2000’s by none other than Starbucks. This seasonal beverage is coveted by many, with huge groups of humans calling Autumn “PSL Season,” and this is just the sort of nomenclature that pisses off the PSL haters. But, why has the PSL become a contentious topic? Is it because of the sect of humans who have coopted fall to be synonymous with Pumpkin Spice everything (Pumpkin Spice Candles, Pumpkin Spice donuts, probably...