Portland, Oregon · roasting since 2016
We buy small — one lot at a time, from farms we have visited and paid directly. Every bag is stamped with the day it came off the drum, because coffee is a fresh product and most of it is sold as though it were not.
Next roast Tuesday 17 February · orders close Monday 6pm PT · pause, skip or cancel a delivery in one click
On the shelf this week
Blueberry and jasmine, with a cocoa-nib finish. Roasted for filter on Tuesday and stamped with the date on the base of the bag.
$21 for 250 g · $18.90 for subscribers
This week at the roastery
310 kg
Roasted across two roast days, Tuesdays and Fridays, in batches of 11 to 13 kg on a 15 kg Loring.
47 cafés, restaurants and offices take it on standing orders.
Wholesale · from 6 kg a month
Cafés, restaurants and offices across the Pacific Northwest, on a standing order that arrives the same day every week.
Three price bands · net-30 after two orders · barista training at the roastery
The subscription
You choose the rhythm, we choose the coffee — or you choose that too. Either way it is roasted to order, not pulled off a shelf. Every delivery is $32, and that price does not change when the coffee does.
Fortnightly
$32 per delivery2 × 250 g every 14 days · $69/month at this rhythm
For kitchens that get through a bag a week and notice when the jar runs empty on a Sunday.
Most popular
Monthly
$32 per delivery2 × 250 g every 4 weeks · $34/month at this rhythm
The middle setting, and the one most subscribers settle on. Two bags lasts a month at two brews a day.
Bi-monthly
$32 per delivery2 × 250 g every 8 weeks · $17/month at this rhythm
Weekend filter and the occasional espresso, in a bag that is still fresh when you open it.
Charged per delivery, not per month, so a short month never costs you a bag. If the coffee arrives and it is not right, tell us and we will re-roast it or refund it — no form, no argument.
On the shelf this week · roasted Tuesday 17 February
Filter roast · Subscriber favourite
Natural · blueberry, jasmine, cocoa nib · 1,950 m
$21 250 g
Espresso roast · House
Washed · red apple, panela, walnut · 1,750 m
Our house espresso since 2019, and at its best four or five days off the roast.
$19 250 g
Every coffee on this page is available in 1 kg, ground or whole bean. Bags leave the roastery within 24 hours of coming off the drum.
Northbound against the aisle
| What is in the bag | Northbound | A supermarket tin |
|---|---|---|
| Roast date | Stamped with the day it came off the drum | A best-before month, which says nothing about when it was roasted |
| Time from roast to your kitchen | Packed within 24 hours and shipped the next day | Roasted, warehoused and distributed before it reaches the shelf |
| What is in the bag | One lot, one farm, and the farm named on the label | A blend, with no farm named anywhere on the tin |
| What the grower was paid | $5.10/lb FOB on our Ethiopian — 62% above the C-price | Not something a tin tells you |
| Who picks the coffee | You do, two origins at a time, or the roaster does that week | A buying desk, working to a price and a volume plan |
| Ground or whole bean | Ground to your brewer the day it ships, or left whole | Often pre-ground, so it is staling from the moment it is packed |
| What the price buys | A named lot, roasted this week, at $17.50 to $23 for 250 g | A lower price per gram, for coffee of unknown age and origin |
Our column is our own labels and contracts. The other column describes what a tin can tell you about itself, not one particular product.
The roastery · North Interstate Avenue
The week, from order to carrier
The drum
Small enough to taste the difference between one batch and the next, and large enough that the shop and the wholesale accounts are drinking the same roast.
Wholesale · cafés, restaurants and offices
Roughly a third of what we roast goes out on wholesale. That means we hold stock for our accounts, roast to their schedule rather than ours, and answer the phone when a grinder dies at 7am on a Saturday.
From a subscriber in Sellwood
“I stopped buying supermarket beans in the first month. The bag tells you the roast date, which sounds like a small thing until you have bought coffee that was roasted last spring.”
Next roast is Tuesday
Order by Monday at 6pm and your bag is roasted on Tuesday, shipped on Wednesday, and drinking well by the weekend.