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Roasty Buds was born to be experimental. Last year, co-owners Louis Montemayor, Daniel Stone, and George Ellis solved the world’s deficiency of spicy coffee when they launched their Austin-based brand with a trio of brews. Kinda Spicy, Xtra Spicy, and XXXtra Insane Spicy beans—flavored with Hatch green chiles, ghost peppers, and Carolina Reaper peppers, respectively—brought a new way to wake up with your morning coffee. This month, they launched a pair of smoked coffee varieties, Texas BBQ and Cherry Glaze Smoked BBQ.All Roasty Buds coffees are made with Arabica beans roasted in Spicewood, a town just outside Austin, by Mike McKim of Cuvée Coffee. Twelve-ounce bags of any flavor are $17 and available online. For the barbecue coffee varieties, McKim uses a process whereby wood…

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