Meet Our Featured roasters
Spoiler Alert, They’re Amazing
Onyx Coffee Lab | About
Years ago we started telling each other to “Never Settle for Good Enough.” It felt perhaps like a piece of branding or a slogan, but over the years this mentality has developed into a mantra of its own that permeates every thing that we do at Onyx.
It starts with traveling to find the absolute best coffees. This plays out across different countries, continents, and terrains. We maintain high standards for how our coffees score and taste. When the coffees land at our HQ, we roast and cup and make minute adjustments to the roast profiles until they make the coffees shine in the cup.
We roast and ship coffees every weekday utilizing solar energy from the roof of our facility. A sample is taken from each roast and cupped for quality, to track the characteristics of our coffees, and to give feedback on roast profiles. This ensures that every coffee that goes out not only meets our standards but is truly remarkable.
Black & White Coffee Roasters | About
Black & White Coffee Roasters was formed by U.S. Barista Champions Kyle Ramage and Lem Butler. “We roast in a way to showcase each coffee’s unique quality, and to honor the extremely difficult work of cultivation, making that work so special to our customers that coffee quality becomes important to their success… Producer, Roaster, Barista or Consumer— we are all in this together. Coffee is steeped in a rich tradition of relationships, relationships are the fabric of community and community is key to an evolving industry.”
Tandem Coffee | About
Tandem offers a rotating list of single-origin coffees and seasonal blends. They feel passionate about sourcing at origin and working in partnership with small growers and specialty importers. As a 1% For The Planet member, 1% of their annual sales are donated to environmental non-profits doing what they can to protect the future of our planet. Tandem Coffee is also climate neutral certified, which means they offset their 2021 footprint by purchasing carbon credits (token-type units that represent carbon emission reductions) to fund climate change solutions like smarter energy and happier forests.
Red Rooster Coffee | About
Roasting exquisite coffee while making an impact at origin and at home. With numerous awards and accolades for their coffee quality, their true passion is in making a positive social impact both at home and abroad at the coffee's origin. Red Rooster Coffee’s three main ethical tenets are: transparently traded coffee, sustainability and environmental action, and impact at home—create a vibrant local community by hiring locally with a living wage and full health care benefits for their employees. In 2018, they licensed an onsite day care for their employees children.
What makes specialty coffee so special?
Learn more about the quality grading standards and why we serve specialty coffee.
