Since 2009, 8th & Roast has been crafting exceptional coffee in Nashville. They build strong relationships with farmers to source the best beans and roast with care to bring out their full potential. It’s all about quality, freshness, and a commitment to doing coffee right.
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Pinned Brews treats the coffee scene like a living passport. The more recipes the community logs, the clearer each roaster's personality becomes.
Airship began in the mountains of Honduras, where founder Mark Bray saw farmers struggling for a stable, fair supply chain. What started as a commitment to producers has grown into a roastery rooted in community — bringing bright, thoughtfully-sourced coffees from farm to cup.
Alma Coffee was founded in Georgia in 2018. Fourth and fifth-generation coffee farmers in Honduras, Al Lopez and daughter Leticia Hutchins extended their family legacy to bring you the freshest coffee straight from their farms to your cup through sustainable practices.
This small-batch roaster proves that you don’t need state-of-the-art equipment to create perfect coffee. They’re doing something right – Matthew McClutchy’s Anodyne has been serving Milwaukee since 1999 with community-building concerts, wood-fired pizza, and of course, the city’s best coffee.
Atomic is on a mission to spread positive energy. Led by brothers Spencer and Logan Mahoney, this second-generation family business uses coffee as a catalyst for inspiring community, relationships, and adventures.
Amidst the 2008 economic crisis, Bean & Bean Coffee Roasters opened shop in Manhattan’s financial epicenter. Fourteen years and four locations later, this mother-daughter team is driven by a commitment to gender equality, sourcing half its coffee from female-led farms.
To be the best, you have to work with the best. Bird Rock, Roast Magazine’s 2012 Micro Roaster of the Year, is truly farm-to-cup. Since 2006, this San Diego roaster has sourced exclusively from top-tier growers and fostered supportive long-term relationships with its partners.
Fiercely focused and admittedly obsessed, Blueprint puts each of its coffees through a rigorous quality control process. Founded in 2013 with the co-op mentality of collaboration, Blueprint is committed to ensuring all of its coffees meet the highest standards before leaving St. Louis.
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Founded in 2010 by Cara and Vajra Rich, Boxcar — which is named for '30s race cars—roasts on the front range of the Rocky Mountains. That rugged Colorado landscape comes through in its scrappy can-do attitude and its perfect high-altitude coffees.
Idaho native Barry Faught opened Broadcast's first location in 2008, in honor of his dad's lifelong passion for radio. After a brief-stint following in his father's footsteps, Barry found himself in Seattle, a city with great music, inclusive communities, eco-friendly living, and amazing coffee.
Aaron MacDougall discovered his calling in a Honolulu coffee shop after leaving a career in finance. After years of learning, competing, and roasting, he moved back to the Boston area and founded Broadsheet Coffee Roasters in 2017.
For over 25 years, Caffe Vita has roasted extraordinary coffee in Seattle, Brooklyn, and Phoenix. Buying exclusively from trusted growers and roasting on vintage German machines, this indie roaster has one clear mission: do everything as well as possible and make great coffee.
Driven by a desire to create an inclusive gathering place for rural Oregonians, founders Cody and Kristina opened Cerberus café in Jacksonville, Oregon in 2019. Within the first year, the team began small-batch roasting to extend their warm community reach even further.
Common Voice
Common Voice Coffee Co. puts its values into action. This Nashville roaster supports farmers by purchasing beyond just their highest-scoring lots, paying five percent above green coffee cost. Every bag reinforces their commitment to community, accessibility, and caring for the earth.
Founded in 1998, US Navy Veteran Mike McKim's Cuvée Coffee is one of Texas's oldest roasteries. Big on Lone Star flavor and an experimental spirit, Cuvée stays ahead of the pack with an innovative nitro cold brew canning facility that keeps this Austin roaster cutting-edge.
Named for founders Rebecca and Terry Patano's sons Dominic and Marco, Post Falls, Idaho’s DOMA is centered on family. The brand’s logo captures that spirit with an illustration of Terry’s father, while its sustainable packaging conveys its dual focus on environmentally friendly practices.
DRINK COFFEE DO STUFF is a state of mind. Sparked by co-founder Nick Visconti's Alpine coffee obsession during his pro snowboarding career, DCDS roasts at 6,000 feet in Lake Tahoe. Driven by sustainability, this Sierra Nevada roaster merges outdoor living with specialty coffee.
Married co-founders Julia Mayer and Todd Stewart travel the globe building meaningful farmer relationships, but Dune's heart stays rooted in Santa Barbara. With equal passion for great coffee and supply chain partnerships, this duo shares their finds with a devoted local community.
Roasting since 1995 out of a garage, partners Brooke McDonnell, Maureen McHugh, and Helen Russell built Equator into a Certified B Corp focused on quality and social impact. From founding Panama's Finca Sophia to partnering with World Bicycle Relief, their reach spans the globe.
Feast
Feast Coffee & Culture is a celebration of coffee in all its variety, dreamt up around a table on Bainbridge Island in 2016. Serving Redding, California, this craft-driven roaster thrives on cultivating local culture through popular food gatherings and open, welcoming conversation.
Gimme! is an industry blueprint for sourcing, roasting, and serving delicious coffee without compromise. In 20+ years, their commitment to championing equitable pay in coffee has never wavered, and they’re now one of the largest employee-owned co-ops in the US.
Greater Goods sources unique coffees worldwide, but this Austin roaster's heart stays in Texas. Founded in 2015 by Trey Cobb and Khanh Trang, it was named Texas's best coffee by Food & Wine. Beyond great roasts, Greater Goods partners with local charities to give back with every bag.
Balance is everything at Highwire Coffee. Founded in Oakland in 2011 by Rich Avella, Eric Hashimoto, and Robert Myers, this roaster is intensely focused on detail, experimenting with roast levels, and fostering the next generation of roasters through a deep commitment to education.
Huckleberry is all about people (well, coffee people). Founded in 2011 by friends Koan Goedman and Mark Mann in a backyard garage adjacent to a chicken coop, this Denver-based roaster has grown into a complex global network, turning out some equally complex flavors.
Named for its original Irving Place café, Irving Farm has grown alongside New York's specialty coffee scene since 1996. David Elwell and Steve Leven's Hudson Valley roastery has led the way with strong grower relationships and clean, fuel-efficient practices that set an industry standard.
Founded in 2003 in New York’s West Village, Joe Coffee helped pioneer the city’s third-wave movement. As it has grown, Joe’s shops remain welcoming gathering places for the community, while principles of quality, integrity, collaboration, and ethics come through in everything it does.
Coffee is in the Perry family’s blood. The team behind Klatch has been bringing their flavorful coffee to SoCal since 1993. But there’s more than just innate knowledge – thanks to roastmaster and green buyer Mike Perry’s chemical engineering degree, real science goes into this team’s award-winning coffee.
Named for its original owner’s bear-like rescue dog, Kuma Coffee has found a forever home in Downtown Seattle. Since 2008, this local favorite has evolved from a garage roastery to working on state-of-the-art, eco-friendly equipment and purchasing coffee direct from origin at above market price.
An award-winning, impact-driven roaster led by a Latina majority and shaped by a diverse, woman-forward team. Little Waves believes in coffee as a shared experience—sourcing, roasting, and brewing with care to create small, intentional waves that celebrate the beauty of coffee and life.
Founded in Greenville, South Carolina in 2015 by three friends, Methodical Coffee blends Marco Suarez's community spirit, Will Shurtz's barista expertise, and David Baker's operations know-how. Within 18 months they were roasting, and those three pillars still guide everything today.
Metric’s name derives from the unit of measurement found on a vintage German Probat roaster that founders Xavier Alexander and Darko Arandjelovic restored from dilapidation. That reverence for tradition and self-made attitude are pillars of the locally beloved Chicago roaster.
Our coffee enlightenment changed everything. It was that one, memorable cup of coffee we were served at the local coffee shop that got us wondering what syrup they put in our drink only to find out that it was the coffee we were tasting.
With a Roastery in Santa Ana and four retail locations based in Costa Mesa, Garden Grove, Laguna, and Irvine, MoonGoat is focused on continuing to develop as a top service sector employer, with the best in-class customer service.
Launched in 2019 by the Passenger team in Lancaster, PA, Necessary Coffee lives by one belief: Strong Partners Make Rich Coffee. Thoughtfully sourced, expertly roasted, and ultra-consistent, Necessary invests in farmer-focused partnerships to build a more sustainable future, one cup at a time.
Founded in 2002 by Jake, Joe, and Herb Brodsky, Novo Coffee exists to connect great producers with great drinkers. Two decades and three cafés later, that mission still drives them—buying from the same farms year after year to improve farmer pricing and elevate overall coffee quality.
Oren Bloostein left his corporate career in 1986 to found Oren's Coffee in NYC, roasting on site from the start. Today, this New York institution upholds the highest freshness standards and sources with care through its Oren's at Origin program, honoring over 35 years of dedication.
Miami has as much to do with Panther’s success as the coffee it brews. Founded by Joel and Leticia Pollock in 2010, the roaster made its home in the city’s Wynwood neighborhood where it became a gathering spot for the local artists and embraced Southern Florida’s global tastes.
Passenger Coffee brings drinkers along for an extraordinary ride. Once operating out of a retrofitted 1955 Airstream, this Lancaster, Pennsylvania roaster looks boldly forward—storing all unroasted coffee in deep-freeze to roast a large, diverse offering at peak freshness year round.
Pastime Coffee's founders Justin Dedini and Erica Schwager have spent more than 35 years working across nearly every corner of the industry—from sourcing and roasting to quality control, education, and retail. Pastime was created to be the company they've always dreamt of being a part of: one that treats producers and collaborators with respect, pays well above average for great coffee, roasts with precision, and keeps its environmental footprint as light as possible.
Julia Peixoto grew up in a Brazilian coffee farming family and wanted to do better for farmers in her region. In 2015, she and husband Jeff Peters left corporate careers to found Peixoto in Chandler, Arizona—where they produce, import, roast, and share their family's extraordinary coffee.
PERC Coffee has roasted the world’s most colorful coffee in Savannah, Georgia, for over a decade. Their mission is simple but powerful: Share good times and amazing coffee with everyone they meet and continue to grow their business with authenticity, passion, and curiosity.
Portrait Coffee was founded in 2019 to change what people picture when they think of specialty coffee. Deeply rooted in West End Atlanta, this roaster reflects the community's history and culture while actively rewriting the narrative—one genuine cup and one new story at a time.
PT's Coffee set the bar for the industry as one of the first roasters to establish a Direct Trade program. Founded in Topeka, Kansas in 1993 with a simple goal—an excellent cup—Fred Polzin and Jeff Taylor's brand has lived up to that promise every single day for over 30 years.
Philadelphia's ReAnimator has been exploring coffee's complexity since 2011. Owned by Mark Capriotti and Mark Corpus, this roaster embraces seasonality like few others—single-origin offerings cycle through frequently, staying on the menu for only weeks before making way for something new.
Red Rooster Coffee started in the back of a Virginia bookstore when Rose McCutchan needed coffee for her café. Since 2010, Rose and Haden Polseno-Hensley have built a family-run roaster guided by sustainability, gender equality, inclusive hiring, and onsite childcare for all employees.
Sightglass Coffee launched in 2009 with a simple belief: coffee can be both art and connection. Named for the small window on a roasting machine, Sightglass works with like-minded growers and roasts in small batches—so every cup reflects care, precision, and genuine craft at its best.
Friends and roasters Kimberly and Sara noticed women were everywhere in coffee except at the top. They founded Sightseer in 2021 to change that, sourcing 100% from women producers. With every bag, they work toward a more equitable supply chain and a brighter future for the whole industry.
Founded in 2017, Washington, DC’s Small Planes Coffee is all about connections — within its local community and with producers at origin. A roaster that works hard without taking itself too seriously, Small Planes’ menu has options for the specialty newbie and those with more adventurous palates.
Envisioned as a place for local creatives to meet and collaborate, Sparrows has always put people first. Roasting came next, when in 2016 Sparrows Coffee introduced its very own specialty line to its welcoming café, which features curated work from community artists.
Since 2015, Steady State Roasting has been raising the bar on coffee in Southern California by never settling for mediocrity. Elliot Reinecke’s hospitality-driven small-batch roaster gets as much as it gives to its Carlsbad community, owing plenty of its success to the local support while embracing the many outdoor activities this coastal city has to offer.
There’s an elegance to Portland’s Sterling that comes through in everything it does, from its complex coffee to its sleek black packaging. Founded in 2010 by Adam McGovern and his business partner William Aric Miller with design in mind, this detail-oriented roaster leaves no touch unconsidered.
Armed with the dream of creating sacred gathering places like those he encountered while traveling Indonesia, Sean Kohmescher founded Temple in 2005. This California roaster continues its global mission of education from its West Coast home in Sacramento.
The Roasted Record began on Mike Mann's front porch in 2013 with a small roaster and a vinyl copy of The Joshua Tree. With an analog approach to coffee and life, this Stuart, FL roaster has become a beloved gathering spot for music and coffee lovers and an award-winning small-batch roaster.
Oakland's Timeless Coffee is a proud vegan roaster, bakery, and café rooted in community since 2012. Partnering with importers who empower farmers and their communities, Timeless channels a passionate commitment to quality, education, and connection into every cup it pours.
Utopian Coffee was founded more than a decade ago by two cousins who share a love for coffee and the people who grow it. Built on investing and and learning from producers across the globe, they envision a more equitable supply chain that honors people and the environment.
Founded in 2007 and named for the joy of making art, Verve takes coffee seriously beneath its laid-back West Coast exterior. Colby Barr and Ryan O'Donovan's cafés now span from LA to Tokyo, yet Verve still roasts on its beloved vintage machinery in its hometown of Santa Cruz.
Wonderstate Coffee means it when they say farmer-focused. Caleb Nicholes and TJ Semanchin's solar-powered roastery in Viroqua—the nation's first—centers deeply on grower relationships. Their time spent at origin builds meaningful connections that come through clearly in every cup.