North Star Fine Coffees | Premium Coffee Review

Coffee is life. Okay, so maybe that’s a really broad, really ambitious statement – so sue me. Just don’t take my coffee from me.

Some of you tease me (good naturedly, of course) about my unwavering stance on not cutting corners when it comes to baking. I’ve said it a gazillion times, more times than not, you get what you pay for. When it comes to ingredients, your food will taste better if you take the quality of each ingredient into account. If you’re making a German Chocolate Cake, for example, and you want it to taste first rate, you’d better have first rate ingredients – otherwise, you’ll have to settle for the outcome, just as you settle for the ingredients.

Granted, I will look for bargains and if something’s on special, I load up. I want to get what I pay for because I have a strong distaste for wasting money or being foolish with it.

However, experience has taught me that some things are simply worth the extra price. Vanilla extract, cocoa, chocolate bars, and coffee each are at the top of this list.

Premium Coffee: Why It’s Worth the Price

Some people question buying premium coffee. I can almost hear them asking now, “Why buy premium coffee beans when I can buy ground coffee at the store for next to nothing.” That’s akin to asking, “Why buy a Cadillac when I can buy a clunker?”

Premium coffee simply tastes better and leads to a much more enjoyable, satisfying, and lovely coffee-drinking experience. Why do you think coffee house coffee is so extraordinary? They take what they do seriously. They don’t buy clunkers.

Neither do I.

What’s Special About North Star Fine Coffees?

What distinguishes North Star Fine Coffees from other coffees, even other premium coffees? I can think of a few words:

Commitment
Pride

Here’s where rubber meets the road – or rather where the bean meets the grinder: There are twenty-eight grades of coffee. Most people drink, on average, a grade 15 – 28. Even drinkers of ‘specialty’ or ‘Gourmet’ coffees aren’t enjoying coffees any better than a grade 5, which qualifies at the minimum level for a specialty coffee. North Star Fine Coffees only offers premium grade 1 — the absolute finest available in the world.

This commitment to standing apart from the rest shows. You can taste it in every sip. You can smell it when you grind the beans! No lie, this may be something that only coffee drinker extraordinaires like myself, my husband, and our oldest daughter would recognize, but when we grind North Star Fine Coffee beans, you can smell the goodness throughout the kitchen and the dining room. I love to put on an evening pot and I always grind the beans right before Emily gets home from work. This way, she’s hit with the Heavenly aroma the minute she walks in the house.

Needless to say, it’s something we all enjoy each morning as well.

I’ve spoken through e-mail and social media to the President of North Star Fine Coffees and he’s as friendly and likable a person as you’d ever hope to meet. How could he not be? Coffee people are the coolest people in the world! Something always stands out to me: He’s very warm, sincere, friendly, and positive – some of my favorite traits! But there’s something else. He takes a great deal of pride in his coffee and in his company. You can tell it isn’t a job for him or just a way to make money. He’s passionate about his coffees and he’s passionate about North Star Fine Coffees reputation.

My household is so overjoyed that he is!

***This fact is supported by the Specialty Coffee Association of America.

{ Literally pauses to take a sip of North Star’s Seattle Reign Blend! }

Where to Buy North Star Fine Coffees

I’d love for you to try North Star Fine Coffees for yourself. I want you to taste just how special this coffee is and I want you to see, first nose, what I’m talking about with the aroma. It’ll have you floating through the air!

Click any of the links in this post (or any of the images as well) to learn more about North Star Fine Coffees and to place your order. I have tried and thoroughly enjoyed the following blends: Black Label and Seattle Reign.

Seattle Reign: A decadent medium bodied coffee with soft earthy undertones, slightly sweet nutty flavor and a luxuriously smooth chocolaty finish. (Yes, chocolaty! – a delicious subtle flavor of chocolaty Heaven.)

Black Label: Luxuriously smooth, seductive aroma, rich full body, with smokey overtones, and a semi-sweet finish.

I honestly can’t say which is my favorite – I love them both equally. I guess this calls for more testing, right?!

{ Heads off for more testing… I love my life.}