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Reconstruction Coffee Roasters is a woman-owned and -operated company in Villa Ridge, Missouri. Master roaster Nickie Browne roasts in a commercial roastery outfitted with two Mill City Roasters, where manager Emily Browne handles sales and logistics. The company recently underwent some structural changes, with ownership changing hands and the Reconstruction Coffee Roasters trajectory now heading… Read More

Tyler Ellison is a deputy sheriff in Buena Vista, Colorado. He and his wife Amber also own and run Storyline Coffee Roasters out of a tiny home they call the Shop. They ship their coffee in refillable jars, putting the idea of returning for a second–or third, or fourth–order directly into their customers’ hands. Setting… Read More

Based in Stevensville, Maryland, Open Seas Coffee Roasters is a social-impact operation sending ten percent of its proceeds to provide rural communities with ceramic water purifiers.  Bryce Roszell is the owner and green buyer of Open Seas Coffee Roasters. Andrew Wackett is in charge of roasting and quality control; operations manager Hannah Wackett focuses on… Read More

CJ Porter Born roasts on an MCR-20 in a warehouse in St. Paul, Minnesota. As Director of Coffee for The Get Down Coffee Company, he’s in charge of supplying the fast-growing company with coffee, yes, but also the details that customers are now coming to expect on their bags of specialty coffee. While third-wave roasters… Read More

Christian Felipe Guzman Herrera roasts on an MCR-20. The machine lives in Pueblo Querido’s third location, a shop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that opened just last year.  Christian is a night owl; waking up at four a.m. is often the hardest part of his day. But now, five years into running his trio of coffee shops,… Read More

Borah Dawson lives in Columbus, Ohio. She and Johnny, her husband of ten years, own a plot of land that includes their house and a secondary building, where the ARK 6 kilogram lives and works. Roasting on her home property suits Borah: there’s no lease payment, and her kids can come in to help whenever… Read More

Justin Hilligoss roasts on a MCR-3 just down the street from the Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida, in a small cafe/roastery space next door to his wife’s boutique. In January 2023, the second location will open, complete with drive-thru, two thousand sq ft roasting warehouse, and three thousand sq ft cafe floor. Setting The… Read More

Blake and Haylee Rogers roast behind their gym, Relentless Fitness, in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. The building has a somewhat out-of-place chimney structure, which Blake and Haylee aimed to tear down until they installed their roaster there and found they could vent through it: a good metaphor for how roasting has puzzled into their lives. Setting the… Read More