Roasted round the corner
Good coffee, roasted round the corner.
We roast in small batches and ship the same week. Every bag is roast-dated, comes with a plain-spoken field note, and carries a lot code that traces your beans back to the exact farm that grew them. No mystery. Just good coffee, with receipts.
Fresh on the list
A few we are loving right now
Porch Light
$19Our everyday house blend and the one most people start a subscription on. Smooth, sweet, and forgiving however you brew it. The cup you leave the porch light on for.
A washed Yirgacheffe that tastes like a sunrise in a cup. Bright, floral, and tea-like. We roast it light to let the farm do the talking.
Deep Cut
$22Wet-hulled Sumatra for the dark-and-stormy crowd. Heavy bodied, earthy, and low in acidity. Excellent in a French press on a grey day. A limited seasonal lot, gone when it is gone.
Ask the Crow
Not sure which bag? Just ask the crow.
Tell the crow how you like your coffee, in plain words, and it reads your palate and pulls the right bags off the shelf. The crow is our scout: it knows the whole roast list by heart, every note, roast, and origin.
- Describe a taste, a mood, or a brew method
- Get a real pick from the roast list, with the why
- No account, no quiz to sit through
Tip: press ⌘K anywhere to search or ask
Ask the Crow
Coffee conciergeTell me how you take your coffee and I will point you at the right bag. Bright and fruity, smooth and chocolatey, bold and dark, something for lattes, or just say surprise me.
Backed by receipts
We tell you everything but the secret handshake
Specialty coffee is full of vague words. We would rather show our work. Here is what comes with every bag, no asterisks.
Roast-dated, always
Coffee is freshest within a few weeks of roasting, so we print the roast date on every bag and ship the same week we roast. You always know exactly how fresh your beans are.
A lot code to the farm
Each bag carries a scannable lot code that traces your beans back to the exact farm, region, and harvest. The full story of your cup, from soil to roaster, in your hand.
Paid above the floor
We pay our producers above the Fair Trade floor price, every lot, and we put it in writing. Better coffee starts with farmers who can keep growing it.
Traceability
Every bag is a receipt for your cup
The lot code on your bag links to the producer, region, elevation, process, and the field note that made us fall for it. Honest coffee should be able to show where it came from.
Scan to the farm
Origin atlas
Follow your coffee back to the map
Every lot code on every bag traces to a real place on earth. The Origin Atlas plots each growing region we buy from at its true coordinates, draws the journey to the roastery, and opens the file on each one: elevation, process, and the coffees it grows.
Open the Origin AtlasLight to dark
Find your roast
From bright and floral to deep and earthy. Tell us how you take it and we will point you to the cup.
The Roost
Fresh coffee, before you run out
Roasted the same week it ships, dated so you always know how fresh it is, and on your doorstep before the bag runs dry. Skip, swap, or pause in seconds. The crow remembers, so you do not have to.
- Two 12oz bags every month
- 15% off the per-bag price
- First access to limited and seasonal micro-lots
- Tasting notes and brew-guide card in every box
From the roaster
The notes behind the cup
We write a plain-spoken field note for every lot we roast. No tasting-wheel jargon, just why we fell for it and how to get the best out of it.
Kochere Daybreak
Washed Yirgacheffe that tastes like a sunrise: jasmine on the nose, bergamot in the middle, white peach on the way out. We roast it light and brew it as a pour-over to let the farm do the talking. A clean, tea-like cup for slow mornings.
Filed by the crow
Brew studio
Dial in every cup
Our exact recipe for every coffee, dose, ratio, temperature, and grind, plus a live timer that walks you through the pours in real time. Pick a method to start.
Extraction lab
See the cup before you pour it
Every other coffee site hands you a recipe. We hand you the model behind it. Drag dose, grind, temperature, time, and ratio and watch the real physics of extraction move: a live kinetics curve, the cup plotted on the brewing control chart, and the flavor bending from sour to sweet to bitter as you dial. A model, not a measurement, and honest about it.
The back room
Take a coffee break
Every roastery has a back room where the crew messes around between batches. Pull a live espresso shot simulated on your graphics card, nail a pour-over, roast a batch to the drop, or crack the daily mystery roast. Four games, all built in coffee.
Our story
We started on a corner, with a crow keeping watch
Wander & Crow began as a tiny roaster on a neighborhood corner. The wandering was for great coffee. The crow was the scout who always knew where to find it. We are still small, still roasting close, and still telling you exactly where your cup comes from.
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