Specialty Coffee Beans

Thai Treasure is created by one of America’s award winning coffee veterans with almost 40 years in the Specialty Coffee Industry. We trade in products that have a valuable social and environmental impact as well as a story to share. Cultivated in the high mountain altitudes of the Chiang Mai Province in Thailand, the specialty beans we sell are sustainably produced and directly traded from the farm to us.

Nurtured in the perfect altitude in an environmentally and socially responsible process, our coffees are roasted in California and delivered to your doorstep within days of being roasted. Our products will greatly appeal to those looking for the authentic native taste of Thai specialty coffee coffee.

When we say “Specialty coffee beans” it means the coffee beans passed a special type of criteria to qualify as a unique group. What the farmers do is grade the coffee beans through visual inspection and taste inspection called cupping. Each 350g sample of coffee beans is quality inspected for defects. The defects can be Primary (sour beans or bad beans) or Secondary (broken beans). Specialty coffee beans should have no Primary defects and fewer than 5 Secondary defects.

The next test involves Cupping, which is roasting the coffee, brewing it, and tasted by our official coffee tasters. For every lot of coffee, a certified Q Grader who has the professional skill of tasting the coffee, assigns a score for its attributes. Some of these are acidity, flavor, aroma, and body. While this process is somewhat subjective, in a competition, the graders average their scores so that the chance of a mistake is eliminated.

Our Thai Treasure’s Specialty Coffee Beans are graded at the top 5% of the coffee beans in the world.

While excellence does cost more than the ordinary. Thai Wild Mountain Coffee still remains an affordable luxury costing as little as 6 cents a cup when prepared at home. We believer and you will find it worth every penny!

Specialty coffee types are exquisitely made, rare coffee variants that fall into the highest level of coffee grading classification. Specialty scores are always 80 - 100, with any score over 90 extremely rare and usually significantly more expensive as the score goes up.

Specialty coffee beans must have a cupping score of 80 to 100 and need to pass 10 criteria points for an official coffee testing. These are:

• Aroma
• Acidity
• Aftertaste
• Body
• Balance
• Cup cleanliness,
• Flavor
• Sweetness
• Uniformity
• Overall taste

Thailand produces many of the world’s specialty coffee types. Its Arabica plantations in the highlands, where Thai Treasures Wild Mountain Coffee comes from, are considered the some of the best specialty coffees in the world.

With real, high-quality arabica coffee, you are often able to taste a sweet balanced flavors. Common descriptors are, chocolate, caramel, and nuts. You can also taste hints of fruity flavors like berries. Thai Treasure ethically sources its specialty coffee types directly from an exclusive relationship with the farm and then brings them to the US to roast and package. 

With Thai specialty coffee beans, you can make your favorite coffee beverage better than when brewing with the usual commercial grades. Try:

• Cappuccino
• Caffe latte
• Cafe mochas
• Macchiato
• Hand pourover drip
• V-Cone  filter drip, flash chilled over ice