The Brew Blog

There are, by most industry estimates, somewhere north of 10,000 coffee roasters operating in the United States.

Competition coffee is different. It's a specific, narrow, and verifiable claim: a coffee — or a roaster — that has been judged by a professional panel of judges.

The word 'curated' gets stretched thin in the coffee subscription world. Almost every service calls itself curated in some sense.

There are a lot of ways to rank a coffee subscription. Price per ounce. Variety. Packaging. Shipping speed. The number of origins they cycle through in a year.But there's really only one ranking that matters to anyone who actually drinks...

The SL28 coffee varietal stands out as a true icon. Its journey from a humble origin to global acclaim is a testament to the power of natural selection and human ingenuity.

For this next installment of our Roaster Spotlight series, we caught up with Jason Griest from Old Soul Coffee Roasters, in Sacramento, CA. Old Soul have won numerous awards and AWC subscribers will get a taste of their artistry in September! :-)