Coffee is a Journey

My love for coffee started in a small dorm room my first year in college. Tired from study and a little lonely, I accepted the invitation from a friend across the hallway to have some coffee in his room. I didn’t really like coffee at that time, but I wanted the company for a bit. Being poor college kids, we also didn’t have milk or sugar on hand, so it was black, cheap cup of coffee. That cup was not particularly tasty, but it sparked my interest in coffee as a social drink. From that moment on, I started using coffee shops for just about everything. I went there to study, to catch up with friends, meet mentors, to go on dates. Coffee was more than a social drink for me, it was the whole of my social efforts. Yeah, it was a little sad, but I had some good coffee.

A few years later I was in a class with a friend of mine who in passing one day mentioned that he roasted his own coffee beans. This was novel to me. How does that work? He kindly gave me a sampling of his Ethiopian Yirgacheffe he recently roasted in his air popcorn popper, and, wow!!!!! I never had anything like it (and I have yet to replicate it); the coffee tasted like a cup full of blueberry juice! I couldn’t believe it. I had only recently transitioned from whatever cheap coffee I could find to Starbucks. Now I had a whole new passion. I had to become a coffee roaster.

Home Roaster to Coffee Brand

Over several years I used various home coffee roasting tools and even Frankensteined a gas grill into a coffee roaster. I have roasted hundreds of pounds since beginning my roasting journey with a humble popcorn popper.

In 2019, shortly before Covid, my church decided to start a building campaign as we were near 100% capacity every week. To help with the building fund, I decided to officially produce my own coffee brand of coffee. The building project is on Covid haitus, but will hopefully be picked up before too much longer. In the mean time please allow me to join your coffee adventure.