Strange Coffee Company Relaunch! -- Indiegogo

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.

Direct Feedback

You can help Relaunch Strange Coffee Company by providing direct feedback, rants or raves to: relaunch@strangecoffeecompany.com

Team on This Campaign:

Russell Chisholm
Unstoppable Force.
Brian Babcock
Green coffee buyer, roaster, ranter.
Anna Chisholm
Accounting, finance

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This campaign received all of the funds contributed on Sun Jan 01.

Perks

for your contribution

$11 Eleventy!

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.
$26 Strength in Numbers

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.
- Strange Tee
- Handcrafted Mug
- 1 Pound of Coffee
$78 Strange Mystery Bag

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.)
$100 The Buck and a Quarter Plan

$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!
$452 Coffee Party For Ten

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.
$500 One Strange Year

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.
$599 Coffee in Your Kitchen

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.
$2,518 Strange Origins

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.)