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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 ....)


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Good news -- New-crop estate Kenya micro-lots are now available. Coffee is on the water so we should have some in by the end of Feb, maybe sooner.

Kenya -- there is no substitute.

Waking Life is rolling out a new logo and new branding this month. The new website isn't up yet, but the Burundi Kayanza is still available as a single origin espresso -- bright, tangy, unlike anything else you've had in town.


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.