Our pursuit of finding awesome roasters has once again brought us to Denver, CO, where we found our latest favorite roaster: Huckleberry. We were drawn to their desire to run a business that is responsible both to their producers as well as their local communities.

When it comes to procuring green coffee, Huckleberry has worked to create relationships with coops and smallholder farms in addition to carefully vetting their importers. Often times roasters will find a producer they like and only buy the highest quality coffee, forcing the producer to sell off the rest of their coffee for much lower rates to larger buyers. Huckleberry has taken the unique step of promising to buy all of producer’s coffees in several cases, allowing the producer the financial security to continue to improve their crop with notes from Huckleberry.

Building local communities is a large part of their vision. In their shops, Huckleberry strives to make their high-end coffee approachable to all people, with friendly and helpful staff. They host “Cafe Sessions” where they invite local artists to perform. Huckleberry has also begun removing plastics from their to-go packaging, selling their customers very reasonably priced metal straws in-store. If you’re ever in the area, be sure to look them up and stoop by!