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Specialty coffee roasters · Norcross, GA

Exceptional coffees, traceable to the farmer who grew them.

We source through import partners with deep, long-term relationships at origin, choose lots that pay producers well above market, and roast every batch to order on an Italian IMF RM15.

Hand-sorting cherries on raised beds, Ethiopia

Fully traceable

Every coffee names its producer and region. We buy through carefully chosen partners like Crop to Cup and InConexus, who work with the same farmers year after year.

Paid fairly

We publish what our producers are paid. Producers of our current coffees earn as much as $3.25/lb above the commodity market.

A full 12 oz

Many specialty roasters sell 250 g bags. Ours hold 340 g of freshly roasted coffee, about a third more in every bag.

Our cafés · Suwanee & Alpharetta

Taste it on bar

Every coffee we roast is on bar at our cafés in Suwanee and Alpharetta. Stop in for a pour-over, an espresso or a bag to take home.

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Colombia · November 2024

We go to origin

Our team traveled to Colombia with InConexus, our partner in Bogotá, to walk the farms and meet the producers behind our coffee. We buy from partners who work with the same farmers year after year, and we publish what those farmers are paid.

How we source
Warm Waves Coffee team with coffee producers on a farm in Colombia
Our team with producers on the farm
Cupping Colombian coffee lots on our origin trip
Cupping lots in Colombia
Walking down a mountainside to a coffee farm in Colombia
Walking down to the farm
Holding a tray of green coffee sample beans in Colombia
Checking a green sample
Ripe red coffee cherries and white coffee blossoms on the branch
Ripe cherries and blossoms
Brewing a pour-over on a farmhouse porch in Colombia
Pour-over on the farm porch
Feria Internacional de Café in Tolima, Colombia
Feria Internacional de Café, Tolima
Sharing a meal with our hosts on a coffee farm in Colombia
Sharing a meal on the farm
Producer spotlight

Mullugeta MuntashaBursa, Sidama, Ethiopia

Mullugeta spent years hauling cherry for other farmers. In 2021 he came home and built his own drying station, Dawencho. That same year his coffees placed second and sixth in Ethiopia's Cup of Excellence. Today Dawencho processes cherry from about 600 neighboring growers. Our import partner Crop to Cup has worked with Mullugeta since 2022.

Paid to farmer$6.25/lb
Above C market+$3.25/lb
Altitude2,230 m
Taste Mullugeta's natural
The roastery · Norcross, GA

Roasted on an IMF RM15, built in Italy

We retired our Diedrich and installed an IMF RM15, a roaster built for precision and consistency. Its clean, even heat lets each coffee taste like the farm it came from, not like the roast.

Small batchesRoasted to order, profiled for each lot
Cupped side by sideEvery new coffee tasted before it reaches the shelf
Inside the roastery
Our IMF RM15 roaster in the Norcross roasteryCupping table with notesGreen coffee beans
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Brew it at its best

Brewers and accessories to get the most out of every bag.

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