Mystic Monk Coffee – UPDATED

A while back, we talked about patronizing various monastic houses at Christmas, gifting others with their candies, jellies, cakes, beers, soaps and more.

It occurs to me that Easter is coming and you may be making baskets for family and friends. If you do, you might want to consider adding to it some coffees.

I admit I am a sucker for good photography and a well-designed web-site, and those things attracted me to the monks, but I was still leery. Then Lent came and I decided to give up adding sugar to my coffee or tea (a heavy sacrifice, believe me), and I began to truly suffer through every cup of coffee, no matter what brand or blend, whether I milled the beans myself or not. What didn’t taste bitter seemed muddy, and my beloved daily coffee was becoming a real penance.

All of that induced me to try Mystic Monk Coffee, from the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming. I’m glad I did. This coffee has helped! These Carmelites seem to take an almost unmonastic pride (I tease) in their product, which they call The best coffee this side of heaven!”, but they do so with good reason. As I write I am enjoying a cup of Mystic Monk Blend which is very smooth and only lightly nutty but not at all bitter, and I’ve also come away very happy with the Hazelnut coffee and the Decaf Columbian. I’m looking forward to trying the Dark Roast Columbian, the Cowboy Blend and the Ethiopian next, and will very likely be ordering either the Irish Cream or Chocolate Mint for a neighbor of mine who has a St. Patrick’s Day birthday coming up! (I think a bag of each in a basket with the monks’ two-handled coffee mug would make a very nice gift, indeed.) And they do have gift sets for Easter.

My husband wonders about the Royal Rum Pecan…maybe down the road!

If you’re looking for organic fair trade coffee, they’ve got that too.

And I’m suggesting to the monks that they might want to sell some of their wonderful photographs as posters or tee shirts. I find them both beautiful and amusing.

Related: Two more ideas for Easter gifts: Rosary Bracelets and Nun Soap.

Surprising and Slightly O/T: Cuba invites monks to establish monastery

UPDATE: I am liking this coffee so much I have become an associate! Clicking the Mystic Monk Coffee banner over on the right sidebar will bring you to the land of plenty, and it helps generate some cash to keep the site going, too! Thanks!