My Story

My journey with coffee began in 2016 when I was 22, living in central Florida and exploring local coffee shops. I learned that coffee could actually taste like more than bitter mud water, even that it could be good without milk or sugar!(nothing against it if that's how you take your coffee. Enjoy what you like.) That same year, while living in a rented house with 7 other broke college kids, I adopted a crazy little Husky/Shepard mix puppy I found at a local shelter. I named her Sira, and she is one of the greatest decisions I ever made.

Fast forward a year later, and I've moved back to my home in Southern Connecticut. I got a job working at a local coffee shop/roastery.(Shoutout to Willoughby's) Over the next few years working here as a Barista, helping out in the roastery, and learning whatever I could from the talented staff there, my love and and intrigue with coffee only grew. I left that job for something different, and for the next handful of years bounced around, fell in love, and got married in 2023. Shortly after, I took a chance and bought my own Roaster. I spent a winter learning the machine, and refreshing what I had learned at Willoughby's all those years ago. I roasted a lot and learned a ton. I roasted so much coffee that I didn't know what to do with it, and didn't feel right selling it yet, that I just gave it away to friends, family, neighbors, and pretty much anyone that would take it. Come spring 2024, I decided it was time I start my own business, and now we're here.

Roasting is a science and an art, and it's a process I've fallen back in love with, and am learning to master each day. Something I will always cherish is waking up on a lazy Sunday morning, and making myself a pour over of some amazing coffee, and slowly slurping it in my backyard with my wife and my dogs. It's always small moments like these that mean the most to me, and now that I can not only enjoy and take pride in something I created, I can share it with others. I hope you enjoy my coffee as much as I do, and I'm so thankful for your support.

Be kind. Drink Coffee.

-Collin