Four Years of Solid State 🎉
Solid State Coffee || Oct '24
It's Our Anniversary!
This week, Solid State Coffee celebrated its 4 year anniversary! I’m so proud of what we’ve been able to build here and feel incredibly blessed to have such an amazing team to collaborate with. They bring their A game(s?) every day and it shows. I’m also super grateful for all of you out there and your tremendous support over these past 4 years! Thank you x 4!!!!
As a small token of our appreciation for our followers here and on social media, we’re giving away a Fellow Stagg EKG kettle and bag of coffee to one lucky winner. Check out the post on Instagram for details. Good Luck!
Thank you,
James Veltri
Founder
NEWS AND UPDATES
Spooky Season Online Sale 👻
Stay alert and get caffeinated this Spooky Season. For a limited time, use the code SPOOKYSTATE and get 20% off coffee on our online store.
PSL is Here 🎃
It's the best time of the year. There's a chill in the air, and the leaves have begun to change. The neverending cycle of life and death is on full display, and gourd-based flavors have the market cornered. As you enjoy Fall in the Upper West Side, don't forget the very best PSL you can get is on 71st Street. We have our own house-made syrup that you can't get anywhere else. While you're here, you may as well get a cardamom bun too.
18 Rabbit Has Returned ☕️
We've brought back one of our favorite offerings from 2023. This natural process from Honduras is jammy, full bodied, and so so yummy. With complex notes of cherry and fig, we cannot wait to bring it back. This coffee drops online and in store on October 16. As always, retail bags will be available in store and online, and we'll be introducing it on espresso and batch shortly after that.
News and Special Interests
Assist Victims of Hurrican Helene
The recent storm devasted communities in North Carolina. Click through the article above for some links to those who need help.
Deforestation Law May Have Unintended Consequences
This is a common problem when it comes to regulating the coffee industry. Regulations usually demand higher costs on producers as they comply with the new standards. These costs have a higher negative impact on producers in lesser developed countries.
The EU passed a deforestation law in 2022, which is set to take effect in December. The law includes a number of measures including: a redefinition of deforestation, a system of penalties and fines, and a requirement that EU operators can "trace their products back to the plot of land where it was produced."
A new report revealed the fairly predictable cost of this law. Smaller coffee producers who can't afford to meet the new compliance regulations could be squeezed from the market. This is a frequent balance with regulation in the coffee industry—which give a disproportionate cost to small growers already struggling to make ends meet.
Coffee Shops Are So Back
After the pandemic brought a wave of at home coffee brewing and consumption to the market, it seems that things have finally reset. Coffee drinking out of the home has shot up to 36% of Americans, the highest since January 2020.
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