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Our Strange Story
 We are Strange. Our coffee team is Russell Chisholm and Brian Babcock
and we roast and brew specialty coffee wherever possible through our
pop-up shop and our smallest-of-the-small roasting operation. Right now
that roasting operation is looking for a new home and you can help. We are currently
selling coffee locally with retail and restaurant customers across
Southwest Virginia. We sell directly to coffee fanatics through our
online store: Strange Coffee Company.
Our company is a collaboration of coffee people with decades of
experience in specialty coffee, but also coffee lovers with necessary
skill sets like James Lanter, our Selva Negra guzzling technology expert
and Anna Chisholm, coffee bean counter. This campaign is inspired by
and dedicated to fans of The Easy Chair Coffee Shop where we roasted and
served coffee for over 15 years.
The Re-Launch Pad
 Our goal is $25,000. We will use these funds to purchase new coffees
and roasting equipment, specifically an Ambex YM-10. We will expand our inventory of the best home
coffee brewing equipment and immediately begin shipping these items
through our web store. You need coffee. You are going to need coffee
next week, next month and next year. Our approach is very simple. You
will get coffee credits to spend over time. Or you can select from some
of our fun coffee activities from a coffee party in the roastery to a
trip to an origin country. We have structured our program so that you
can help at any comfortable level. We offer local Blacksburg delivery
and have arrangements with retail partners where you can pick up your
coffee from Blacksburg to Roanoke and around the New River Valley.
Ordering from our online store? We ship anywhere in the United States. Our goal is $25,000 and we believe we can crush that goal with your help.
Now You Are On Board
With your help we will continue to provide excellent coffee sustainably
sourced from responsible, family farms. In our new facility we can
expand our coffee education programs and connect consumers to the
sources of their coffee around the globe. Your commitment will allow us to maintain uninterrupted service to our wholesale
accounts, our online customers and our local bicycle delivery partners, Spoke-N-Beans.
Our new roasting facility has the capacity to expand into coffee
education seminars, public tastings, fundraisers, and other community
outreach. This project will also help create and sustain jobs in an
area largely ignored by the big coffee companies. We are good at what
we do and we want to do it here.
The Coffee Force
This is crowdfunding. You make it work. If your coffee budget is tight, buy $11 worth of credits and nudge your friends to buy $11 each. Why not pay it forward and purchase $11 worth for a friend and ask them to do the same for one of their coffee crazed people? Share this project with your friends on your blog, Facebook and Twitter. Have you had our coffee? Rave about it and share the link to our campaign. If you haven't had our coffee ... wait ... why haven't you had our coffee?! Your efforts add up and sustain us during this transition. Coffee is a force that gives us meaning and we mean to keep roasting and brewing it wherever we go.
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Direct Feedback
You can help Relaunch Strange Coffee Company by providing direct feedback, rants or raves to: relaunch@strangecoffeecompany.com
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Eleventy!: $11
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| Spend 11 bucks, get 11 bucks to spend on coffee. Hey, we said it would be simple. Credits can be spent in our online store or applied toward orders for local pickup. |
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Strength in Numbers: $26
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| You can select something from the list below or you can throw your support behind us 26 dollars at a time because you believe we will follow through. We will follow through.
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Strange Mystery Bag: $78
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| The Strange Mystery Bag could contain coffee and music. It could contain all of the secrets of specialty coffee. It could contain Luchadores. Count on it being fun and Strange. (And in a bag.) |
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The Buck and a Quarter Plan: $100
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| $100 gets you $125 in coffee credits. Split it any way you like between gifts for friends, co-workers, your boss, your favorite professor. You can use your credits in the Web Store! |
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Coffee Party For Ten: $452
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| Now we get into the fun stuff. In our new roastery we will have the perfect space to host a coffee tasting party for you and 9 friends. You will get to roast your own batch of coffee on our 2-Kilo roaster. You and your group will be introduced to coffee history, an introductory cupping class, and we'll jam together until you can make the best coffee at home. You also get $100 worth of coffee credits to spend. |
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One Strange Year: $500
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| One pound of coffee delivered twice per month for a year, shipped via USPS or dropped locally at your door. You can purchase for home or office, or give this perk as a gift. You pick a favorite from coffees at StrangeCoffeeCompany.com or we will choose the best coffees throughout the year as they become available. Coffee ships on the 1st and 15th of every month. Very simple, and for a full year you will know coffee is on the way. |
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Coffee in Your Kitchen: $599
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| We bring it, we brew it, we leave it. Invite your friends for a home coffee brewing demonstration. We'll come to your house (within parachute distance from Blacksburg, Virginia). We'll walk you through expert preparation and leave behind a Chemex pot, filters, a Baratza grinder, a scale, a water kettle and coffee. |
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Strange Origins: $2,518
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| We find great coffees and roast them with extreme care and expertise. We also visit coffee farms to continue our education. You should come along on our next trip to coffee country. We will arrange a trip to one of our partner farms where you will learn about coffee cultivation, harvesting and processing in the most direct way. We expect to take this trip during the 2012-2013 harvest season. (The $18 is for a case of beer. We'll explain when we get there.) |
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