Est. 2016 · Portland, Oregon

OAK-FIRED COFFEE.

Roasted over a live oak fire before the city wakes, then shipped to your door within forty-eight hours of the drum.

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Why we roast

Coffee with a burn scar and a story.

Most coffee is roasted by algorithm. Ours is roasted by fire, ear, and fifteen years of burned fingertips. We buy from fourteen partner farms we can name, roast in twelve-kilo batches over Oregon white oak, and cup every lot the morning after.

"First crack sounds like distant rain on a tin roof. You don't time it — you listen for it."

— Wes Calloway, head roaster

Partner farms, named on every bag

Roast-to-door, guaranteed fresh

Arabica, zero blends filler

Average cupping score, 2025 crop

Sourcing

Three mountains,
three very different cups.

Every lot is traceable to the ridge it grew on. Hover a card — the terrain leans with you.

Yirgacheffe

Gedeo Zone · Ethiopia

Altitude1,900–2,200 m

ProcessWashed

HarvestNov – Jan

JasmineBergamotHoney

Huila

La Palma · Colombia

Altitude1,500–1,800 m

ProcessWashed

HarvestApr – Jun

CaramelRed appleCacao

Mandheling

North Sumatra · Indonesia

Altitude1,100–1,400 m

ProcessWet-hulled

HarvestJun – Sep

Dark chocCedarMolasses

The Roast Lab — stage 01 / 03

First Crack

Light roast · Agtron 75

Jasmine
Stone fruit
Raw honey

Pulls bright and tea-like. Best for pour-over & AeroPress.

188°C
bean temp

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The shelf

This week's drum.

Roasted Mondays & Thursdays. Free shipping over $40.

250 gBest seller

Yirgacheffe Aricha

Ethiopia · Light roast

Jasmine, bergamot, wildflower honey. The lot that ruins drip coffee for you, kindly.

$22

250 g

La Palma Huila

Colombia · Medium roast

Caramel, red apple, cacao nib. The everyday cup, elevated past its station.

$19

250 gBold

Midnight Ledger

Sumatra · Dark roast

Dark chocolate, cedar, molasses. For French press, black coffee, and long nights.

$21

340 gHouse favorite

Ember Blend

House blend · Medium

Hazelnut, brown sugar, orange peel. Built for espresso machines and Monday mornings.

$18

250 gDecaf

Cloud Nine Decaf

Peru · Sugarcane decaf

Milk chocolate, graham cracker. All the ritual, none of the 2 a.m. regrets.

$20

3 × 100 gNew

First Light Sampler

Three roasts · One morning

Yirgacheffe, Huila, and Midnight Ledger side by side. A vertical tasting at your table.

$28

Field manual

The 3:30 pour-over.

Grind

Medium-coarse, like raw sugar. 22 g of beans, ground just before the kettle sings.

T-minus 0:00

Bloom

50 g of 94° water, poured in circles. Watch the bed swell and exhale its CO₂.

0:00 – 0:45

Pour

Spiral outward, then back in, in two slow waves until the scale reads 350 g.

0:45 – 2:30

Sip

Drawdown should land near 3:30. Let it cool two minutes — the fruit arrives as it does.

3:30 +

Emberline's Yirgacheffe quietly ruined every other coffee for me — and I mean that as the highest possible compliment.

Maya T. — Portland, subscribes since 2021