Small-batch roaster · Pine Hollow, 7,400 ft

Coffee roasted a little closer to the sky.

We roast three beans in ten-pound batches, one morning a week. No blends we can’t explain, no notes we can’t taste. Bags go out Thursday.

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Freshly roasted coffee beans spilling from a kraft paper bag onto a wooden table

This week’s roast

Cascade Ridge

Ethiopia, Guji · washed · medium-light

Apricot, black tea, a little brown sugar.

Roasted Tuesday, 12 lb

The three roasts

We roast three beans. That’s the whole list.

One light, one middle, one dark. We keep them year-round and change the lot when the harvest turns over. Every bag is 12 oz, whole bean or ground how you like it.

Pale cinnamon-brown light roast coffee beans in a cream ceramic bowl

Cascade Ridge

$19

Ethiopia, Guji · washed

Tasting notes

  • Apricot
  • Black tea
  • Brown sugar

Best as pour-over. Bright, and it cools well.

Chestnut-brown medium roast coffee beans in a cream ceramic bowl

Timberline

$18

Colombia, Huila · washed

Tasting notes

  • Cocoa
  • Red apple
  • Walnut

The everyday one. Forgiving in any brewer.

Deep espresso-brown dark roast coffee beans in a cream ceramic bowl

Nightfall

$18

Sumatra, Gayo · wet-hulled

Tasting notes

  • Molasses
  • Cedar
  • Dark chocolate

Made for espresso and for milk.

A small tasting bar with wooden stools at a reclaimed wood counter

The weekend tasting bar

Six stools, two mornings a week.

We roll up the roastery door on weekend mornings and pour whatever came off the drum that week. Three cups side by side so you can taste the difference — $6, or free if you leave with a bag.

Saturday 8:00 – 13:00
Sunday 8:00 – 12:00
Monday – Friday Roasting — closed

Six seats, walk-in only. We don’t take reservations — if it’s full, the wait is usually one cup long.

Subscription

Bags in the post, on a schedule you set.

Pick a roast or let us send whatever we’re proudest of that week. Everything ships the Thursday after it’s roasted. Skip, pause, or stop whenever — there’s no contract and no phone call.

The One Bag

For one person who drinks a cup a day.

$18/ month

One 12 oz bag, once a month

  • Your pick of the three roasts
  • Whole bean or ground to order
  • Shipping included
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Every Other Week

For a two-cup morning, or two people.

$34/ month

One 12 oz bag, twice a month

  • Your pick, or rotate all three
  • Whole bean or ground to order
  • Shipping included
  • First pour free at the tasting bar
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The Standing Order

For a full house, or a small office.

$64/ month

Two 12 oz bags, twice a month

  • Mix and match every delivery
  • Whole bean or ground to order
  • Shipping included
  • First pour free at the tasting bar
  • A note from whoever roasted it
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Prices are what you pay — shipping is already in there. Skip a delivery or cancel any time from the link in your dispatch email.

Roasting at altitude

Thin air makes for stubborn coffee.

At 7,400 feet the air is thin enough that a roaster behaves like somebody else’s roaster. Heat leaves the drum faster, the beans take longer to get where they’re going, and every curve we brought up from sea level was simply wrong.

It took the better part of two years and a lot of ruined pounds to work out our own. We roast longer and gentler than most, and we stop earlier than the numbers say we should, because up here the numbers lie a little.

The other half of it is your kettle. Water boils at about 198°F in this town, not 212°F, so a cup brewed here tastes softer than the same beans brewed in the valley. We roast for the mountain and write the valley notes on the bag.

7,400 ft Roastery elevation
198°F Where water boils here
10 lb One batch, one morning
A small vintage drum coffee roaster glowing in a workshop with mountains through the window

The drum roaster, bought used in 2019 and rebuilt twice since.

Find us

Behind the hardware store, follow the smell.

We’re in the old feed shed off Bell Street — there’s no sign yet, just a green door and usually a stack of burlap sacks outside.

Address
41 Bell Street, Rear
Pine Hollow, CO 81324
Tasting bar
Saturday 8:00 – 13:00
Sunday 8:00 – 12:00
Email
hello@ridgelinecoffee.com
Phone
(970) 555-0142

Wholesale or a cafe order? Email us — one of us answers, usually the same day, unless it’s a roasting morning.

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