We are bringing roasting in-house.
Green beans travel in bulk. We roast them here, to order, the week they ship. Fresher coffee, lower shipping, a roast date on every bag.
Shipping the coffee cost more than the coffee.
Every bag used to leave Costa Rica already roasted, in its own parcel, on its own courier label. Small parcels are the most expensive way in the world to move anything, and we paid that on every order. There was a quieter cost too. Roasted coffee starts a clock, and weeks in transit and customs are weeks off the best part of it. A bag arriving a month after roasting is not the coffee we tasted when we chose it.
Green beans travel well. Roasted coffee does not.
Green coffee is stable. It ships in sacks, in bulk, at a fraction of the cost per kilo, and nothing is lost on the way because the clock has not started. So that is what we ship now. The beans arrive green, we roast them here in small batches, and we roast yours after you order it. Every bag leaves with the date it was roasted printed on it, usually in the same week.
Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica.
The beans have not moved. They come from the Nicoya Peninsula, one of the five places on earth demographers call a Blue Zone, where people reliably live longer than almost anywhere else. We will not claim the coffee is the reason. We will say that Nicoya grows remarkable coffee, that the families we buy from have done it for generations, and that changing where we roast changed nothing about who grows it.