ANSWERS FOR YOUR QUESTIONS!

WHY THE NAME: “BEE CULTURE COFFEE COMPANY”?

While we, as humans, classify bees as a matriarchal monarchist society, that is us mistakenly applying human characteristics to bees. Bee culture is every bee, working in perfect sync with the others, to contribute in meaningful ways towards the betterment, and prolonged survival of the entire colony. The individual works towards a common goal to help the greater good, rather than each bee looking out for themselves only. I strongly believe if we could adopt a similar idealism in our day to day life, we would have a much better world.

"MUTUAL CARING RELATIONSHIPS REQUIRE KINDNESS AND PATIENCE, TOLERANCE, OPTIMISM, JOY IN THE OTHER'S ACHIEVEMENTS, CONFIDENCE IN ONESELF, AND THE ABILITY TO GIVE WITHOUT UNDUE THOUGHT OF GAIN."

- MR. ROGERS

WHY ARE THERE so many MR. ROGERS QUOTES?

Fred Rogers is a huge inspiration to us in our day to day lives, his timeless message of love, kindness, and acceptance is a core value we strive to emulate. He was not a saint, he was not perfect, he was a man, and that is far more admirable. Mr. Rogers woke up every day and made the conscious decision to be kind, and to take the time to really see the people around him, and to empathize with them. He dedicated his life to leaving the world a better place than he found it.

“It’s important to know that he was not a saint…if you think of him as a saint, then his message is unattainable…people invariably say, ‘Well, I can’t do that, but I sure do admire him. I would love to do it.’ Well, you can do it. I’m convinced there are lots of Fred Rogerses out there.”

- Joanne Rogers (Wife of Fred Rogers)

WHAT DO YOU USE TO ROAST YOUR COFFEE?

We roast on the new Canadian Certified Aillio Bullet R1 V2. The Aillio Bullet is one of the worlds best small batch roasters, fitted with a large array of sensors to provide more data to the roaster than any other roaster on the market. This roaster allows us to roast consistently, and to control as many variables as possible while roasting, and to track every step of the roast precisely!

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE WAY TO BREW?

My favourite brewing method is percolative brewing, or pour over brewing. I like the amount of control pour over brewing gives you. At the moment my favourite pour over brewer is the NEXTLEVEL Pulsar brewer; when I have the time I really love experimenting with my HARIO syphon brewer, syphon brews are incredibly unique!

WHAT EQUIPMENT DO YOU USE TO BREW?

On our coffee bar we have an Acaia Pearl S scale, a Fellow Tally scale, a Fellow Stagg EKG kettle, a modified DF83 grinder, a modified Breville Barista Express Espresso Machine, a PIETRO Pro-Brew Hand Grinder, a 1ZPRESSO ZP6 Hand Grinder, and too many manual brewers to list here. Be assured, if the brewing method exists, we probably have a brewer for it.

CAN YOU PRE-GRIND MY COFFEE?

Absolutely we can pre-grind your coffee for you, you can selection this option during checkout. We only need you to let us know what brewer you will be using, and we will grind your coffee for that brewing method.

WHERE DO YOU SOURCE YOUR GREEN COFFEE FROM?

We work closely with Root 86 Coffee, headquartered locally in Parksville BC to source all of our high quality green coffees, this allows us to ensure ethical growth, harvesting, and labour practices.

We do our best to source all of our equipment, and supplies as locally as possible. We strive to support other Canadian owned businesses.

DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS?

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