GRADIENTcoffee roastery

The roastery · Mueller, Austin TX

One person, one roaster, one garage

small on purpose

Who roasts it

Hi, I'm John

By day, I'm an engineer. What I've always loved is where science meets art. Understanding how something works, then using that knowledge to craft something people genuinely enjoy. Coffee turned out to be exactly that.

I love learning everything I can about green coffee. The variety, the process, the farm, and all the little details that shape its potential. Roasting isn't about changing the coffee. It's about bringing out the best that's already there.

Feedback on coffee is critical, at cupping, we taste, adjust, and roast again until it feels right. My goal is simple: make coffee that I'm proud to share and that you'll look forward to brewing every morning.

John dialing in a batch on the Arc 800 roaster

Start to finish

How a bag happens

The Arc 800 coffee roaster
  1. 01

    Source

    Single-origin green coffee from importers I trust. One origin at a time, so the bag in your hand actually tastes like somewhere.

  2. 02

    Dial in

    Each new coffee gets profiled on the roaster and tasted until the curve is right. Bright acidity, clean sweetness, aromatics that survive the bag.

    This is the part that happens at a cupping. Come help decide.
  3. 03

    Roast to order

    800 grams at a time on an Arc 800. Nothing sits in a warehouse. Your bag is roasted after you order it.

  4. 04

    Get it to you

    Shipped to your door, picked up in Mueller, or hand-delivered by bike if you are close enough.

The bags

Every coffee gets a critter

Each release gets its own label and its own name, usually an animal from the neighborhood or the origin it came from.

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Come taste it in person

We pour whatever came off the roaster that week at our cuppings.

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