Plain, hard, honest.
Blue granite runs through the Midlands bedrock. We took the name because that is the standard the coffee is held to.
Profile R3 · Locked
Every bag ships with the curve that made it.
This is RION. El Salvador Las Lomas, washed, Pacas and Bourbon. Drag the roast and watch the bean change.
Development is 27% of the roast. It is the last stretch after first crack, and where most roasts go wrong.
Every batch has a log behind it.
Heat, airflow and time, held to a standard batch after batch. The full walkthrough of what happens inside those eleven minutes is its own page.
The standard
Packed to order, never to a shelf life.
Roasted, weighed and sealed in Lexington the same day, then sent. No warehouse leg, no best-by date doing the work a roast date should do.
- Net weight
- 12 oz / 340 g
- Grind
- Whole bean
- Dated
- Roast date on every bag
- Batch
- Small, against real orders
The Lineup
Three coffees. One standard.
Nothing ships until the profile locks. Here is exactly where each sits today.
RION
Pacas / Bourbon · medium
The staple, and the base of the signature blend. Dialed across three rounds and held at R3. First release is next.
HONING
Caturra · medium
Almond butter, milk chocolate, lime. Profile work underway. It goes on the shelf when it earns it, not before.
STRATA
Wet-hulled accent · medium-dark
Each component roasted separately, then combined post-roast so the cup repeats. Ratio trials running in five-point steps.
The Bench Notes · Current issue
One page of coffee you can actually use
Every issue: one thing worth trying, one thing worth ignoring, and a straight answer to something coffee people usually make complicated. In this one, the brewing chart the industry finally replaced after sixty eight years, why buying a grinder and a brewer as a system beats buying the best of each, and how to dial your dose without a scale full of math.
Written at the bench, not scraped off a blog. New issue every other week.
First Release
Be on the list when RION drops.
One email when the first roast is bagged. The Bench Notes every Wednesday if you want it. Nothing else.
Roasted to order in Lexington. Shipping within South Carolina.