Small-batch roastery · Asheville, NC
Five kilos at a time on a 1962 drum we rebuilt in the back of the shop. Green coffee lands with a farmer’s name on the sack and leaves burnished on Thursday morning — still warm when the first bags go out the door.
Fictional concept · 35.59 °N — 82.55 °W · Asheville, NC
214batch · batch 07 of 11 · Thursday
Every bag we sell is part of eleven batches roasted on one Thursday. This is the log for the batch photographed above — the same figures go in the box.
Batch 214 · Ember · roast log
Bean probe, charge to drop
Nobody copies last week’s curve. The roaster listens for first crack, pulls the trier, blows the chaff off a handful and decides. Eleven of those between five in the morning and dark, and the last one still gets the same forty seconds of attention as the first.
196–212°C at the drop
Prices are for 12 oz whole bean, roasted on Thursday. Ground to order at no charge — tell us the brewer. Five pounds and up, ask about wholesale.
Light roast
Bishan Dimo · Guji · washed
196 °C·10:42
Roast level 1 out of 5apricot · jasmine · raw honey
Dropped early, before the sugars darken. Bright and floral — the only impatient thing in the building. Best as filter; it goes thin under espresso pressure.
Medium roast· the house
Finca La Sonora · Huila · washed
204 °C·11:58
Roast level 3 out of 5caramel · orange peel · cacao
The house profile and two thirds of everything we roast. Sweetness built slowly through the middle of the curve, finished clean. Works in anything, including the machine your aunt gave you.
Dark roast
Koerintji group · Kerinci · wet-hulled
212 °C·13:21
Roast level 5 out of 5molasses · cedar · woodsmoke
Taken to the edge and held there for forty seconds. Heavy, resinous and unapologetic — the one that stands up to milk and to a cold morning.
Decaf · medium
El Rosal · Nariño · sugarcane EA
203 °C·11:20
Roast level 3 out of 5plum · cocoa nib · brown sugar
Decaf that doesn’t taste like it gave up. Sugarcane process, roasted on the same curve as Ember so the 9pm cup tastes like the 9am one.
Roasted ThursdayShipped Friday · flat $6Pickup from 8:00, still warm
04doors · where to go next
A five-page site instead of one long scroll: each of these is a real page with its own address, its own title and its own reason to be read.
Four on the shelf, from $18. Origin, altitude, what it tastes of and how to brew it.
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Standing orders from $19 a week. Roasted Thursday, posted Friday, cancelled in two clicks.
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A 1962 drum, one lever, eleven batches a Thursday and the eleven seconds that decide them.
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214 Foundry Row: the bar, the menu, the Saturday cupping and how to get here.
OpenThree hands raising two lattes and a cold brew together over a timber table
Wednesday to Sunday · 214 Foundry Row
Fifteen feet of oak, a glass wall onto the drum, and the corner table people fight over on a Saturday. The cupping runs at ten, six seats, $15 back against any bag.
