Slow Bloom Coffee

The Guatemala page prints what the co-op paid Daniel Orantes: 2,700 Quetzal a quintal when the regional rate that season was 1,800, with the FOB and the shelf price sitting beside it. Almost no roaster publishes the number it paid a farmer, and the same instinct runs through the packaging, one design drawn after Sister Corita Kent's pop art and another after ordinary blue-collar work spaces.

Lead Roaster Kelley Bader roasts what the co-op sells, and the 10-kilo Mill City machine he started on belongs to another roastery in town. Honduras takes five of the eleven listings on the shop page, from Erlan Odli Romero's washed Pacamara at 1,550 to 1,600 meters to a deliberate dark roast called Goth Phase, and neither listing prints a roast date.

Stained and textured glass fronts the 888-square-foot room, white-painted Victoria Arduino Mythos grinders and a three-group Synesso S300 showing through it, with Portuguese terrazzo underfoot and a shaded patio outside. The building is midcentury modern, an arched shingle canopy over the glazed front and period-style lettering above the street number, and a room this small is right to put its machinery in the window rather than behind a wall.