"Specialty Coffee" is generally considered to be anything above 80 points on the SCA scale. Our minimum for the club is 87 points, well above most other subscriptions. The highest scoring coffees in the world are Cup of Excellence lots that sometimes reach 91+ points. You'll find us at many of those COE auctions - tasting coffees for the club.

Delicious coffee isn't an accident - it's the product of years of experience and hard work by farmers and their families. The current "fair trade" price for green coffee is $1.40/lb - and at that rate, coffee production isn't sustainable. We're proud to pay well above fair trade prices - often 5x or more - to ensure the farmers that produce incredible coffees can continue to thrive.

Coffee is a fruit - which means it has a limited time at peak flavor. The longer coffee beans sit in storage, the more flavor they'll lose. While other roasters offer the same single-origin coffees all year, we curate a rotating slate of the freshest coffee from each season. Then we roast-and-ship same-day so our members receive their coffee at the peak of freshness, ready to brew.