Queen City is a blend reminiscent of traditional Seattle espresso blends from the late 1990’s. A nice balance of bold, rich and smooth sweetness that’s perfect for romanticizing the wistful rainy Seattle days. The blend’s artwork highlights Seattle’s most famous landmark – the Space Needle. Read our Queen City inspired story below, the tale of how the famous landmark came to be what it is known as today.
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The Southpaw Blend is a medium roasted coffee that incorporates notes of caramel, chocolate, and citrus. This blend was one of the first blends created by the Silver Cup roasters. After many different renditions and alternative mixes of beans, Southpaw is perfected with a combination of beans from Colombia, Central America, South America, Africa, and the Indo-Pacific. At Fulcrum we are all about sharing stories that allow our customers and readers to discover and learn something new, like our roasters did with this blend. Read our Southpaw Blend inspired story below, a tale about a Seattle figure that truly changed the game.
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This is a story inspired by our Snoho Mojo coffee blend. It’s the tale of Pacific Northwest supersalmon that used to run in the Columbia River, icons of a bygone and raw Pacific Northwest where everything was a little wild and hard to believe.
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Seattle, Washington. A place on the far Left Coast, a city that has always attracted and created thinkers who were a little our there. This is a story about two left coast guitarists.
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Seattle’s own Mountaineers arrived at the foot of Mount Rainier on a clear midsummer day in 1915. They were about to climb into history.
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When the clouds hang in the sky for too many days, there is a general sense of oppression that settles over even native Northwesterners. We move a little slower, then, as though the sky is a literal weight on our shoulders.
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The Snohomish people tell a tale of how the salmon life cycle came to be. Like a lot of folk wisdom, the story has strangely modern applications.
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It is the rule breakers, the limit pushers, who show us what’s possible. We are inspired by those who manage, through cleverness, to rise above ordinary and reach unexpected heights.
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Before Bertha Knight Landes was the first female mayor of Seattle she climbed Mount Rainier in a skirt as a Mountaineer. She was a champion of women’s rights who plowed through barriers. This is her story.
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