Catalog 2026 / 10Roast days: mon + thuRiver Arts District, Asheville NC5 kilo drum, two people

Coffee roasted in small pressings.

We are a two person roastery and coffee bar in a 1948 record pressing plant by the French Broad River. Every coffee is a release with a catalog number. We roast twice a week, ship the same afternoon, and keep a turntable going at the bar.

Free shipping over $45 / pickup at the bar

A hand turning fresh roasted coffee beans in the round cooling tray of a drum roaster, the steel stirring arm in the foreground — fig. 1 / thursday, 7:40 am, the first batch hits the cooling tray

This week on the press

the full catalog

Side A

Current releases

Single origins and the limited pressing, newest catalog number first. Quick add is a 12 oz bag, whole bean. Pick a grind or a 2 lb bag on the release page.

Limited pressing / SP-023

Bensa Natural, Lot 7

One day of picking from the highest farms around Bensa in Sidama, dried whole in the cherry for 21 days. We bought all of it, and all of it is 140 bags. Each one is numbered by hand at the packing table.

On repeat

The two we never take off the bar

A shot of espresso in a small glass sitting on a black scale under the group head — 18 in, 38 out, 28 seconds

Liner notes

How a pressing happens

Two hands holding a steel scoop full of pale green unroasted coffee beans

01 / green

Green coffee arrives in 60 kilo jute sacks through Savannah, two or three lots a month. We cup every sample on the table by the loading dock and buy maybe one in eight.

Cupped hands holding roasted beans above the roaster's cooling tray against a warm yellow wall

02 / roast

Mondays and Thursdays from 6 am on a 5 kilo drum, about eleven minutes a batch. Light roasts for the African coffees, a little longer for everything from the Americas.

Hands tipping fresh grounds from a brass cup into a paper filter in a green ceramic dripper

03 / press + ship

Bags are filled, stamped and dated by hand, then picked up by the mail truck at 3 pm the same day. Pour overs at the bar use whatever came out of the drum that morning.

Also in the crate

Goods from the merch table

all goods

Black and white close up of a tonearm resting on a spinning record with a plain white label

The bar

Seven days a week, one turntable, a crate of records by the register.

Mon to Fri: 7 am to 3 pm
Sat and Sun: 8 am to 4 pm

Roberts Street, Asheville NC
Loading dock door, under the old press sign

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The mailing list

New releases, two emails a month.

Catalog drops go to the list a day before the site. No coupons, no countdown clocks.