Our coffee beans start life very differently than the way it arrives fresh at your door when we send it. Coffee is actually a fruit, growing on trees as glistening red or yellow cherries, and it is harvested by skilled workers all over the world. There are 2 types of coffee—Arabica and Robusta. While Robusta is easier to grow, it is Arabica trees that produce the highest-quality coffee beans, from which we hand-select the top 2% from the most renowned growers on the globe.

Thought to have originated in the mountains of Ethiopia, coffee is now found throughout the world. From the rainforest regions of Panama and Brazil, to the majestic African lands of Kenya and the lush mountaintops of Hawaii, our coffee is cultivated from a wide variety of locations. This bounty of fertile lands allows each coffee to provide its own unique characteristics and palate to the customer.

Arriving in large barrels or rustic burlap sacks marked with country of origin, each shipment of the pale “green beans” is meticulously inspected before roasting, ensuring the beans are of the highest quality.

Before a single coffee bean is put into full roast production, growers send a small sampling to our warehouse that is put through a process called ‘cupping’ by our nationally respected and skilled roastmaster. It is during the cupping session that he determines if the new coffee meets the rigorous standards he imposes on each roast that he carefully crafts each day.

We utilize our state-of-the-art roasting facility to hand-roast the selected beans in small batches. Smaller batch size allows our roasters to maintain precise control of temperature and humidity during the entire roasting process. This relentless attention to detail ensures superior quality delivered to your door every single time!