About Superthing Coffee Roasters

Superthing was born out of an obsession with great coffee, and a love for weirdo art, science fiction, design, and excruciatingly long exposition. We all remember the first time we had a coffee that blew our mind and made us realize that coffee could be more than just brown-flavored punishment for being tired. For us, our passion for great coffee was cultivated in our first venture, a small coffee trailer in downtown Austin called Patika. We expanded the family when Patika opened a brick and mortar on South Lamar. With the new location, we were able to brew and taste coffee from roasters all over the country and launched as a multi-roaster cafe. Over the years, we started to hone our shared love for coffees and discovered the universe of coffee beyond the traditional flavor profiles and expected origin countries of coffee. We loved that it can be fruit, funk, floral, volcanic soil, herbaceous radio waves, sub-harmonic frequencies of dark chocolate, and a tesseract of all of the above. Our roasting journey began just like the radioactive boy scout started his nuclear reactor, in our garage (well he actually did that in a shed -- man were we jealous of that shed). We continued our roasting education under the careful tutelage of an exceedingly patient former US roasting champion. Through tons of experimentation and curiosity and tears and first-degree burns, we’re dialing in our roasting philosophy with each new and exciting coffee.