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Looking to enjoy beautiful Spring weather? Looking to help the face of the future? Looking for a challenge and to ride ride ride?

If you answered heck yes to all of these questions, then you better hop on your bike on May 14-15 for Clarke Middle School-Jittery Joe’s Double Century Bike Ride from Athens to Savannah. (Yes, you read that right. Incredibly epic.)

Raising money for Clarke Middle School programs in art, music, sports, and gifted and special education, this 210-mile bike ride departs from Clarke Middle School on Friday, May 14th at 8am and ends in Savannah the following afternoon. For a $200 tax-deductable donation fee, you’ll get free lunches, snacks, maps, power bars, and drinks on the way down and transportation on the way back.

Feel the wind in your hair as you make a big difference for the kids at Clarke Middle. At Jittery Joe’s, we’re proud to bring you such an amazing opportunity to do what you love. Click here to join us on this incredible journey.

Here at Jittery Joe’s, we have another exciting collaboration to speak of.  This time with art-savvy, coffee-drinking SCAD.

We’ve paired with Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) for a unique blend:  SCAD’s Slam-N-Study.  Collaborating with SCAD, we enlisted the college’s communication arts students in developing the packaging concept.  The final illustration was created by sequential art student Andy J Hirsch.  You go, Andy!

We thought this project would be a great opportunity to include SCAD students in the creative process – to bring their work out of the classroom and into the real world.  It was another chance for us to connect with the students, too.  We’re proud to spread the joy of our delicious new organic Slam-N-Study blend and to take part in this collaboration with young artists. Read the official press on the SCAD website.

Gear up, strap your helmets on, and join us on October 17th for the 2nd Annual Jittery Joe’s Fall Classic Century benefiting Athens Area Habitat for Humanity.

Starting and finishing at the Terrapin Brewery on Newton Bridge Road, this is a metric century ride with the option of either a 62 or 31 mile course. Looking for some Family Fun? Bring ‘em all for a 6-mile adventure instead. Whatever your preference, you’ll be able to experience the colorful fall season as we ride through scenic Clarke County.

We’re excited to be sponsoring an event so in tune with our interests: Cycling in support of our community? We’re in. And we hope you will be too!

Interested? Here are some details:

Fees:
$30 per person before October 10, 2009; $35 after.
Entry fee for family fun ride is $10 regardless of group size.

Registration:
Register by mailing completed form (make checks payable to Athens Area Habitat for Humanity) or online at www.active.com.
Registration and packet pickup begins at 8:30 am on 10/17.
For riders 21+, registration includes t-shirt, special edition Terrapin pint glass, and Terrapin Brewery tour. For those under 21, registration includes a t-shirt and water bottle.

Family Festival:
Bring everyone for a family friendly event including children’s activities, food, and drinks!

Gambler: Participate in the Gambler, an entertaining twist to a regular ride! Start with a playing card, gather three on the ride at checkpoints with refreshments, and the final card will be given at the finish, The cyclist with the best hand wins a prize!

Additional Info:
For additional information contact Athens Area Habitat at 706-208-1001.

Everyone’s talking about the new Joe in town: even The New York Times. Their weekend edition heralded the opening of our Jittery Joe’s Coffee in New York City with a teaser of the shining new store. With our location adjoining LIM College, the article paints this southern import as a haven for tired students and locals alike. As always, this Jittery Joe’s Coffee location promises to brew up the energy for creative minds. Check out the scoop here, and if you’re in town, drop by and see us for a little bit of down-home goodness.

Jeff Holland mentions the upcoming release of Depth Charge Espresso Milk Stout in his Creative Loafing article “Talking Head: Terrapin gets busy.” Look for the Depth Charge Espresso Milk Stout and Coffee in September. Read the full article to learn more about the collaboration and other great projects out at Terrapin.

“…Depth Charge Espresso Milk Stout, brewed as part of the Midnight Project, an on-going collaboration with Left Hand Brewing Company in Colorado. Last year, the Terrapin folks flew out to Longmont to create Terra-Rye’ZD, a black rye lager. This year, the Left Hand crew came east. Left Hand is known for its milk stout, brewed with lactose sugar for a creamy texture, and Terrapin has experience with coffee through its “Wake n Bake” Imperial Stout, so this is a natural meeting of the minds. As usual, the coffee was provided by local Athens roasters Jittery Joe’s.”

While recent UGA grad Brendan Wales prepared to spend a month this summer backpacking around Europe, he was inspired to bring Jittery Joe’s Coffee, his own everyday fuel, along for the ride. “I love what Jittery Joe’s stands for and I would like to help spread its vision,” he said. Once he returned from his trip we were excited to see the results.

Check out Brendan’s photos below, and be sure to remember your everyday fuel on your next journey!

We’re pleased to share the news that we’ve opened a Jittery Joe’s Coffee in the heart of New York City. The new location is in midtown Manhattan’s Laboratory Institute of Merchandising (LIM) College.

We’re very excited about this new store as it’s our first (hopefully of many) outside of the southeast. While our coffee has gained a following through our web store and our availability in Whole Foods Markets and bike shops across the country, we look forward to sharing our passion and our coffee with a whole new audience.

The new location opened August 6th at 216 East 45th Street. We hope you’ll come out and visit us!

We’re proud of each and every varietal of coffee we offer here at Jittery Joe’s and the positive impact they have on our community, but our new Selva Negra Estate Direct Trade Coffee is unique for the similar impact it has on a community almost 1,500 miles away. It’s a Nicaraguan coffee cultivated in the most ecological, environmentally and socially conscious way possible, with a rich taste and fascinating history.

What is Direct Trade?

In the typical coffee market are middlemen, additional agents in the transfer between the grower and the roaster. When roasters deal directly with coffee growers to establish a fair price, these middlemen are removed, resulting in a better livelihood for the grower. We’ve established an ethical and fair direct trade relationship with the Selva Negra Estate so that we can micro-roast and offer their coffee to you.

The Estate

Located in the Matagalpa region of Nicaragua, the history of the Selva Negra (“Black Forest”) Estate closely parallels that of the Nicaraguan coffee industry itself. In the late 19th century, hoping to induce coffee-growing in the northern highlands, the Nicaraguan government invited young German immigrants to settle in the area. The young immigrants who accepted this offer would form the main coffee plantations of the country. Located almost 5,000 ft. above sea level, Selva Negra has been producing fine old-style Arabica coffee for over one hundred years, and the farm’s current proprietors are descendants of two of the region’s first German immigrants. The Estate’s employees are treated like family, with full benefits including housing, childcare, schooling, an onsite clinic and convenience store, and fair and respectable wages.

The Coffee

Selva Negra’s crops grow in nutrient-rich volcanic soil and under the shade and protection of centennial indigenous trees, which slows the maturation process in order to produce dense, flavorful beans. The beans are also grown on a large percentage of Bourbon and Typica coffee trees that produce higher-quality beans than other varieties of trees. Once the beans are grown and ready for production, the coffee is prepared with an environmentally-friendly washing process that uses forty times less water than standard methods. In fact, eco-consciousness is a tenet of Selva Negra’s entire coffee production process, from this water-saving washing method to the Estate’s reuse of the coffee byproducts to even their development and use of their own organic weed and pest control methods.

Additional Merits of Selva Negra Coffee

In addition to being direct trade, which promotes fair wages and benefits for growers, Selva Negra’s coffee is also Rainforest Alliance Certified, certified organic, certified Strictly High Grown (SHG), and certified shade grown. In 2007, the estate also received the SCAA Sustainability Award.

We’re excited to offer such a unique and amazing coffee produced with strict, environmentally-friendly standards and which benefits so many people. We hope you’ll stop by and pick up a can or cup at your local Jittery Joe’s Coffee today, or buy online now.

Jittery Joe’s Coffee is participating in the second annual “Taste Your Place” extravaganza which places a focus on building a strong, accessible local food culture in the area.

One of the many scheduled events includes a book club meeting to discuss Barbara Kingsolver’s thought provoking book “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.” “Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, this book (released May 2007) tells the story of how our family was changed by one year of deliberately eating food produced in the place where we live.”

Join us at 6:30 p.m. July 16 at Jittery Joe’s Coffee Roaster.

Learn more about Taste Your Place and see a full schedule of events at localplace.org.

We’ve just uploaded a detailed 360° virtual tour of the roaster and the tasting room. While you’ll get a nice feel for what it looks like, you can only smell the beans roasting in person, so we hope you’ll still feel free to drop by!