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Two brass hand grinders beside a burlap sack of roasted beans

Sheridan, Wyoming · Est. 2016

Coffee by the season

A small roastery at the north end of Brooks Street.

The Almanac

A book of what grew, when, and how it tasted

A cup resting on an open atlas, the ledger we keep every lot in
The ledger, and the reason the shelf keeps moving.

An almanac is a record kept year over year — when to plant, when to cut, what the weather did the last time it looked like this. Every lot that comes through the roaster gets a page: the farm, the altitude, and the week it landed.

Coffee is agricultural, harvests arrive when they arrive, and a bag that was extraordinary in March is only good by August.

  • Roasted in small batches

    Twelve kilos at a time, on a 1958 drum we rebuilt ourselves. Every bag leaves within a week of its roast date.

  • Bought by the harvest

    We buy for the season rather than the year, so the shelf changes and the notes printed on it are true.

  • Whole until it’s sold

    Nothing on the shelf meets a grinder until someone buys it. Coffee starts going flat within minutes of being ground, so we leave that step for last.

“The shelf changes because the harvest does.”
Harlan McRae, founder

The room

Mornings on Brooks Street

Six frames from an ordinary week.

A macchiato, layered in the glass
A macchiato, layered in the glass
Roasted beans with a sampling scoop
Roasted beans with a sampling scoop
A grower raking coffee cherries across a drying bed
A grower raking coffee cherries across a drying bed
A grinder, whole beans and fresh grounds on the bench
A grinder, whole beans and fresh grounds on the bench
Two hands cupped around freshly roasted beans
Two hands cupped around freshly roasted beans
A pour-over brewed with a gooseneck kettle
A pour-over brewed with a gooseneck kettle