Coffee cup

Welcome to Asheville's premier craft roaster of Specialty Coffee

  • Mountain City is a micro-roaster of specialty coffee. We roast coffee the old-fashioned way and place the Fresh-Roast® date on the bag so you know when your coffee was roasted.

  • We sell to everyone at the same low price. Our prices are posted on-line -- you don't have to log in or have an account to see them. (read more ....)

    • ~ We buy pretty good beans and roast them as well as we can ~


Last week, NPR had a series of reports about coffee. The first report is here. Quality and information content varied rom story to story, but some were informative and even important. More commentary soon.

In the meantime, click on the cup at left for a quiz about coffee.

Does your coffee not taste as good as you think it should? It may the way you're brewing it.

The single cup pourover is both trendy and tasty. Have a look at the instructions from Blue Bottle and eatocracy.cnn. (This is how they do it at Waking Life.)




I'm leaving up this reminder to use enough coffee in your coffee. There's nothing more frightening than a weak cup of coffee. The note on the wall says "use ... a heaping tablespoon for each cup". This ad from the Pan-American Coffee Bureau was one of many in which they urged Americans to make stronger coffee.