Fratello Coffee Roasters

Did you know coffee grows on a tree and starts as a fruit?

Before it becomes the roasted coffee we know and love, it begins as a bright red coffee cherry growing high in the mountains of coffee-producing countries around the world.

Each cherry is carefully picked, processed, dried, and prepared before ever reaching a roaster.

By the time coffee reaches your cup, it has travelled thousands of kilometres and passed through countless hands.

The next time you enjoy your morning coffee, remember—it all started as fruit growing on a tree.

You can argue this if you want, but caramel and honey are doing different jobs. Caramel is heat - sugar pushed to the edge. Honey is patience - bees, time, no shortcut.

Colombia Bolivar is both. Sweet and citrusy with notes of caramel and honey. The citrus is the surprise. The sweetness is why you stay.

Russ, our president at Fratello buys the coffee. He knows the farmers by name.

​The Godfather — relabeled as The Goodmother for May — has followed the same recipe for 30 years. Four beans, four farms: Guatemala, Colombia, Nicaragua, Peru. Same growers, year after year. That's how a cup tastes identical batch after batch — when the people growing it know exactly what you're after.

​Specialty coffee, without the lecture.