About Alpine Roastery

We have a different idea about the coffee business. We want to provide the very best coffees at a better price than you are use to seeing. The Micro-roaster convinces their customers the only way to get quality is to pay more. And in fact that is the way it works in most things in life. You feel like you are cheating your customers if you pay less than the maximum for your coffee. After all we all know if it costs less it is inferior, Right?

WRONG!

Alpine Roastery is just what the name implies.  Select grade coffees that will exceed your expectations.

How do we keep prices low?

Simple, we get involved at the farm level. We buy directly from the farmer. We process to our exacting standards, and we export to the state of the art coffee processing center in Houston. There further grading, color sorting, polishing and decaffeination takes place. We separate the Specialty grades from the ordinary coffee, and then the beans are sent to Denver to our roasting facility where it is roasted in batches no larger than 100 KG in our Probat cast iron roaster. It has been upgraded with state of the art controls, but still produces the quality you get only with a 3 ton cast machine.
Where does the other coffee go?

We sell it to other roasters, to Coffee Service operators, even roasters that sell to prisons and food service. Specialty coffee is considered as anything above a 50 cup quality. That is out of 100. So 50% of all coffee is special? I don’t think so. Alpine Roastery sells only beans at or above 85 cup quality. Since there is virtually no coffee graded above 95, you receive from us the highest quality in the market today. Our hard work in sourcing our coffee is what makes us unique.

Farm Programs

We not only buy directly from farmers, we step in where farm coops have failed. Farmers rely on cooperatives or buyers who often take advantage of illiterate pheasant farmers for their livelihood. There are countless stories of farm cooperatives who have sold their neighbors coffee and never paid them or paid a very low price. Our commitment to our farmers is strong. We supply them each spring with farm aids, and growing plans. In the winter during harvest we provide transport, drying racks, expertise in processing, and we pay cash so they never worry about getting paid. We call it “More Than Fair Trade” We not only pay a fair price, we invest in the crop when the farmer can least afford to do so.

Our member farmers are growing each year, and our program is spreading to more countries each year.
The effort we put into sourcing our coffee is how we save you money, and bring you a real community product.. We eliminate the profit of the coffee agent, auction, exporter, importer, and the broker who sells to the roaster who must charge you more to cover his lack of investment is sourcing their coffee.
Alpine Roastery has nothing but great coffee, roasted the old fashion way to your exact specifications, all for a lot less than you pay now. Give us a try you will love doing business with us more than your customers love the coffee you serve.