Steamed milk being poured into a cup, the rosetta forming in the crema
Standing orders · roasted the morning they are sent
never run
out again.
Bags leave the morning after they are roasted, or you collect yours warm off the drum. Change the coffee, change the grind, skip a week — all from the email, all up to Tuesday night.
- a week, one 12 oz bag
- from $19a week, one 12 oz bag
- the cut-off
- Tue 11:59pmthe cut-off
- flat post, lower 48
- $6flat post, lower 48
- contracts, ever
- 0contracts, ever
Fictional concept · 35.59 °N — 82.55 °W · Asheville, NC
04steps · sign-up to doorstep
four steps, and one of them is ours.
Nothing is stored, nothing is pre-roasted and nothing is drop-shipped. Your bag is one of the eleven batches that come off the drum on a Thursday.
- 01
Pick a coffee, or don’t
Name one of the four, or leave it on roaster’s choice and take whatever came out best that Thursday. Roughly half the list leaves it to us.
- 02
Pick a rhythm
Weekly, fortnightly or monthly. Two people drinking a cup each a day get through a 12 oz bag in nine days, which is why The Pair exists.
- 03
We roast on Thursday
Your bag is part of the eleven batches, not pulled off a shelf. The batch number and its roast log go in the box.
- 04
Friday it moves
In the post by ten, or on the pickup shelf from 8:00 with your name on it. Flat $6 anywhere in the lower 48, free over $60.
11:59pm tuesday · the cut-off
three rhythms. no tiers.
The only difference between them is how often the drum runs for you. Nobody is locked out of a coffee, a grind or a price by picking the small one.
The Weekly
$19/ week
Every Thursday·$19 a bag
One 12 oz bag, every Thursday.
- Your pick or roaster’s choice
- Swap or skip until Tuesday 11:59pm
- Free pickup at the roastery
The Pair
$34/ two weeks
Every other Thursday·$17 a bag
Most people pick this
Two bags: house Ember plus a rotating single origin.
- Ember + whatever just landed
- Brew card in every box
- Ships Friday, flat $6 anywhere in the lower 48
Roaster’s Table
$52/ month
First Thursday of the month·$26 a bag
Two bags, first pour of every new lot, two cupping seats a year.
- First refusal on micro-lots (8–14 kg)
- Two seats at a Saturday cupping
- Green-coffee notes from the buying trips
Charged the Wednesday before each roastFree post over $60Gift: three months of The Pair, $102, no auto-renew
04things in the box
the bag, and its paperwork.
A roast date, not a best-before. The log for the batch you were actually sent. A card telling you what to do with it in the brewer you named. And the line saying what the farmer was paid, which is the only number on the box we would be embarrassed to leave off.
- The bag
- 12 oz, one-way valve, roast date stamped, not a ‘best before’
- The roast log
- Your batch: charge, first crack, drop, weight loss
- The brew card
- Dose, water, temperature and time for the brewer you named
- The FOB line
- What the farmer was paid per pound for that lot
02clicks · to cancel
pause it, skip it, or stop it.
There is no retention script, no offer of 20 % off to stay and nobody to ring. If it is not working, it is not working — and a roastery that has to trap you is a roastery with a coffee problem.
- The cut-off
- Tuesday, 11:59pm. Anything you change before then lands in Thursday’s roast; after that it goes to the following week.
- Skip a week
- One tap in any email we send. No reason asked, no limit on how many.
- Pause
- Up to twelve weeks, and your price is held for the whole pause. Longer than that and we close it rather than sit on your card.
- Cancel
- Two clicks from the same email. No phone call, no form, no offer of 20 % off to stay. If it isn’t working, it isn’t working.
- Change the grind
- Free, any week, including switching between brewers. Tell us the machine and we’ll set it to that.
- Card and receipts
- Charged the Wednesday before each roast. The receipt names the batch you are about to be sent.
06questions · asked by email
what the desk gets asked.
Answered here in full rather than after you have paid. All six are answers this concept build is prepared to put its name to.
- What arrives the week I sign up?
- If you join before Tuesday 11:59pm, your first bag is roasted that Thursday and moves on Friday. Join on a Wednesday and you wait eight days — we would rather tell you that than roast something on Monday and call it fresh.
- Can I have the decaf on a standing order?
- Yes, on any of the three. One caveat we will keep repeating: decaf stales faster than the rest, so take Last Call as the 12 oz and not the 2 lb.
- Do you ship outside the lower 48?
- Not yet. Alaska, Hawaii and Canada cost more to post than the coffee costs to buy, and a $24 shipping line on a $19 bag is not a subscription, it is an apology. Ask and we will tell you honestly when that changes.
- Can I give one as a present?
- Three months of The Pair is $102, paid once, and it stops on its own — no auto-renew, no card left on file. We post the first box with a card in your handwriting if you send us the words.
- What if I am away?
- Skip the weeks you are gone, or pause the lot. Both are in every email. Coffee sitting on a doorstep for a fortnight is the one way to undo everything the eleven seconds at the drop were for.
- Is there a contract?
- No. There is no minimum, no notice period and no tier you get locked out of. The only thing you lose by leaving is the cupping seat, and you can buy that for $15 like everybody else.
A gooseneck kettle pouring over a paper filter into a glass brewer on a café counter
Join before Tuesday 11:59pm
the next drum runs on Thursday.
Tell us which of the four, how often and how you brew it. Everything after that happens on a Thursday morning at 05:40 and lands on Friday.