About Carrier Roasting Co.

We’re coffee roasters driven by a handful of core values: hospitality, quality, community, transparency, and a desire to improve. In our rural Vermont town these values are a part of our way of life. Our sourcing, roasting, and brewing should strive to reflect the transparent relationships found in rural agricultural areas like ours, where the inextricable links between quality production, a transparent supply chain, and personal well-being are universally understood. We have two main criteria when deciding what coffees to buy: quality and transparency of supply. By focusing on quality we can justify decoupling our buying from the volatile commodity market and pay higher prices, on average nearly 3x more than the current Fair Trade minimum price. By focusing on transparency we can identify the individuals responsible for these coffees and buy from them regularly. We recognize that the hardest work happens at the coffee’s origin, and that a coffee bean is the seed of a sweet tropical fruit. When we roast we do our best to respect these facts. Care must be taken to properly develop the unique ripe fruit and caramel flavors of each coffee and not obscure them with over-, under-, or uneven roasting. We take a data-driven approach and employ progressive techniques to achieve what we think are the best, most consistent results, always striving to get better. To ensure the quality of your cup and the refinement of our craft we taste every single batch we roast.Read their story