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Wendigo’s Wake Me Up ❄️

Cold breath, hollow eyes, endless hunger ☕
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12 oz Bag
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🫘 Premium Single Origin
Unblended and uncompromised, this roast comes exclusively from a single origin, delivering unmatched clarity, distinctiveness, and depth of flavor that sets it above the rest.

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Among Algonquian-speaking peoples, the Wendigo is described as a gaunt, tall figure with glowing eyes, icy skin, and an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Elders say it forms when a person gives in to greed or cannibalism during harsh winters. The creature’s heart is said to be frozen solid, its voice carried through the trees with the sound of cracking ice and distant screams.
Origin
Guatemala
Growth Altitude
~1,800 MASL
Roast Level
Light
Flavor Notes:
🍫 Cocoa ✨ Maple Syrup 🍓 Fruity
🥀 Echo of the Frozen Woods

A light-medium roast alive with dark chocolate, maple, and plum, balanced by a faint apple sweetness and black tea undertones. Grown in Guatemala’s volcanic highlands between 1,500 and 2,000 MASL, this coffee draws its vigor from thin mountain air and fertile ancient soil. Washed and carefully fermented, it yields a clean, luminous cup where fruit and spice whisper together beneath the rising steam.

🔥 The Heart of the Hunger Spirit

Each sip carries the warmth of survival. Cocoa steadies the pulse, maple and plum lend sweetness to the edge, and a black tea finish lingers like breath in the cold. The Wendigo legend, born of starvation, madness, and winter’s endless appetite, reminds us that even in hunger there is a spark of endurance. This roast honors that lesson, that light must be tended or the cold will take it back.

🌲 The Fire Beneath the Ice

Stories tell of the Wendigo haunting snowbound forests, a spirit of unending craving with a heart encased in ice. Some say it guards the boundary between man and monster, testing those who wander too far into the dark. The Guatemalan highlands reflect that myth, rich soil beneath cold peaks, fire sleeping under frost. This coffee rises from that duality, warmth born of winter and spirit kindled from shadow.

🕯️ Light in the Hollow

Drink this cup when the night is long and the air feels sharp. Let the cocoa and maple guide you back to the hearth, the sweetness of life restored to balance the cold. May its heat be a small defiance against hunger, a reminder that within even the fiercest winter something still burns bright.

☕ Flavor at a Glance
  • 🍫 Flavor Notes: Chocolate, maple, plum, hint of apple, black tea
  • 🔥 Body: Smooth, balanced, light-medium
  • 🍯 Sweetness: Maple-sweet with soft fruit tones
  • 🍎 Acidity: Gentle, tea-like brightness
  • 🌙 Best Enjoyed: Morning or twilight, black or lightly sweetened
💫 Cryptid Spotlight 💫 Wendigo

The Wendigo walks where hunger and silence meet. In the far northern woods, its legend is not fantasy but memory—a spirit born of greed, cold, and desperation. Elders say it waits beyond the firelight, thin as smoke, patient as frost, whispering to those who stray too far alone. It is the face of hunger that learns your name before you hear it in the wind.

Hear the Call 🐾 Decaf calm, Devil-level depth. ☕

Pine Barrens Finest 🌲

ORIGIN
Indonesia/Sumatra
GROWTH ALTITUDE (MASL)
~1,600 MASL
ROAST LEVEL
Medium
🍫 Dark Chocolate ✨ Full Body ✨ Smooth
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