We start by only purchasing phenomenal coffee beans. From roaster to barista, our coffee team is tasked with continually challenging, educating, and inspiring each other towards the development of a more delicious cup. Here's how we reach for that goal:

Direct Relationships
While other roasters may search an importer's cupping table for something tasty, we collaborate with the farmers who grow our beans to source exceptional coffee. We're in communication as the harvest comes in, we're at the cupping table as a lot of coffee is blended, and we're in the fields throughout the year, every year.

Regular Travel
When we say we understand the origin characteristics of a coffee, we're speaking from more than a textbook knowledge of terroir. We've been in the fields, smelled the dirt, seen the fields and the drying patios. Our understanding of the moisture content of a bean and how best to roast it comes from standing on a mountain top and meeting the farmer who grew it.

Collaboration
We take the long view of the coffee trade. While a score assigned to a cup of coffee tells you about its quality today, we aren't content to stop there. We foster a culture of quality through a variety of initiatives here and at origin: we've been at the cupping table when a farmer first tasted his own beans a humbling number of times. We regularly lead cupping and roasting workshops to allow farmers to better understand the impact of each step of cultivation on the final cup. Finally, through our role in Cooperative Coffees, we organize annual meetings of our producer partners, promoting farmer-driven dialogue to find solutions to shared challenges.

Craft Roasting
Our roasting team is tasked with developing the very best that each season brings—just as each year's vintage of wine hints at the flavors of the season, each year's crop of beans subtly different than the last. Daily cupping guides the development of roast profiles to accentuate these nuances and shepherd them into your cup.

The essence of each season guides our line up with fresh blends to enliven your mug and unique offerings spurred by our latest conversations. Sometimes it's a small experimental lot, sometimes it's a new partnership—it doesn't leave the lab until it has met our exacting standards and is guaranteed to wow.

Freshness
We roast five days a week to fulfill orders as they come in—no vast warehouse of coffee sitting and getting stale! After all the care lavished on the beans, we rush to get them sealed away from oxygen, out of the warehouse and into your mug as soon as possible.

Inspired Baristas
Our barista team understands the coffee they serve—after all, some of them have roasted it, some of them have visited the farmers who grow it, and every one of them is in daily conversation with our team at work all along the supply chain. Knowing how much hard work goes into each stage of the coffee's progress means that they're inspired to make exceptional beverages and share that knowledge with you.

Education to Support You!
Last but by no means least, we offer a variety of ways for coffee drinkers to further engage with the cup that connects us. From classes to hone your skills at home to seminars for professionals, educational programming is a priority. Our own staff are continually honing their skills and engaging in the our local coffee community. The goal? For each cup of coffee to be worthy of the stewardship of its caretakers all along the supply chain.