Vancouver Island's Own Roast
The Gulf Islands Roasting Co. roasts high quality organic Arabica coffee and is constantly searching the globe for the best green coffee beans available to bring home to Vancouver Island.
After a lengthy four-month roaster restoration, our first customer— In the Beantime Café, Ladysmith, Vancouver Island— began to offer their customers our fresh daily roasted coffee. Their customers loved the rich roasted blends so much we decided to bring it to those not close enough to visit the shop. Thus, The Gulf Islands Roasting Co. was truly born.
Each batch of coffee is micro-roasted to ensure the highest quality is maintained. The coffee is then bagged by hand and shipped to you, our loyal customer. Come visit us at our Ladysmith shop on Vancouver Island. We would love to see you.
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Gulf Islands Roasting is pleased to introduce our new Bio Bag!
Our new bags are 100 % Biodegradable. They compost in a backyard compost and will biodegrade in any landfill, river, lake or ocean. The only Bio-material that stays intact on the store shelf or customer’s home indefinitely, our bags only break down in the presence of microbes in soil or water. When we say “this bag is dirt in three months”, we really mean it.
Gulf Islands Roasting Co. has been roasting and providing great coffee for years now and now we have the opportunity to help our great customers not only enjoy a smooth, rich, refreshing cup of coffee but be able to throw our bag away after use GUILT FREE knowing it will turn back into dirt in three months. Our new bag is NOT made from food based commodities like corn, soya beans or rice. These commodities are foods that feed Nations.
We are excited to be introducing this new packaging to the marketplace thus reducing our carbon footprint, but let’s not forget about what you will be coming back for again and again, it’s what’s inside the bag, GULF ISLANDS ROASTING CO MICRO-ROASTED COFFEE. Known for our distinct roasting style and flavor profile our roasts will win over your taste buds and keep you coming back for more.
So try us out! You will be doing something green, fresh and friendly to our planet.
Let the Online Shopping Begin!
Customers are now able to order their favourite Gulf Islands coffee blends online! We've partnered with Shopify, a Canadian online e-commerce platform that allows individuals to create digital stores.
The platform currently hosts over 10,000 online retailers, including stores for Foo Fighters, Angry Birds, Tesla Motors, Amnesty International, and Evisu Jeans. Shopify has been well-received by popular tech websites such as CNET, who say the platform is “clean, simple, and easy-to-use.”
The service has also been profiled in world publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Vancouver Sun, The Financial Post, TechCrunch, and Mashable. In 2010, Shopify was named Ottawa’s Fastest Growing Company by the Ottawa Business Journal. In 2007, it became a finalist for the CNET Webware 100 Awards.
Now you can order your favorite Gulf Islands Coffee whenever and where ever you are!
The Gulf Islands Roasting Co. is Proud to Present Our Newest Offering!
Tribune Bay Medium Dark is a 50/50 blend of our Montague Medium Roast and our Desolation Dark Roast single origin, organic, fair trade, Thai coffee.
Our new blend has taken its moniker from the beautiful white sandy beaches that Tribune Bay boosts on Hornby Island, BC.
They say Tribune Bay is about as close to paradise as you can get and we here at Gulf Islands Roasting Co. feel our new Tribune Bay Medium Dark Blend is about as close as you can get to paradise in a cup
Available Sept 26th, 2011, check your grocers shelves, if you don't see it there please request from your local grocer.
While you’re at it don’t forget to stock up on our other blends as fall and coffee season are rapidly approaching.
Gulf Islands Roasting Co. lands on the Mainland!
Gulf Islands Roasting Co. is proud to announce the addition of three new retail partners on the Mainland.
The first is the East End Food Co-op at 1034 Commercial Drive, Vancouver BC. East End Co-op is featuring our 2 lb bags of all our tasty blends.
Number two is the Valley Cliffe General Store at 38229 Westway Ave, Squamish BC. Look for our display rack there filled with a wide selection of beans to suit your every need.
The last new addition, but clearly not least, is the Queensdale Market at 3030 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver BC. Keep your eyes peeled for their ad featuring our coffee in a future edition of the North Shore News.
Stock has arrived at the East End Co-op and will be landing at Valley Cliffe General Store and Queensdale Market this week. Head on down and get your hands on some of the best tasting, micro-roasted coffee the mainland has seen in a long time.