Grounds for Change Coffee

Always great! Quick shipping and the roasting is very consistent. I can only think of one time in the past few years that I got a roast that was too dark. As compared to what it was supposed to be. This company is amazing!

This is a coffee roaster not a restaurant. It doesn't serve Breakfast lunch or dinner. Just coffee. I mail order two coffees; a single origin Peruvian and a French roast blend. Both excellent. Parking: no

(I am reviewing Grounds for Change Coffee for their coffee product and awesome people who run the online business, as my coffee supply from them, but have yet to visit the cafe.) TL;DR excellent coffee blends, sustainability/responsibility/ecological leadership, awesome staff on the team. This is the type of business we all should be supporting! … I found Ground for Change while searching for a highly socially responsible coffee roaster invested in both supporting the people of the coffee farming and supply chain, environment, and their own employees as a business. They had to be a B-corp who is consistently improving year-over-year. Last, but not least, they needed to have good medium to dark roasts, since a lot of specialty coffee not has gone super light (in my book). Grounds for Change checks all of the boxes above, and exceed a lot of what I expected to find in one great coffee roaster. They seem to be leading the way in building a coffee roasting business that betters humanity and consciously taking efforts to learn and improve as they go. It also doesn't hurt that their coffees are excellent. We primarily purchase their coffee blends for stable, reliable product, while trying out some seasonal blends that they release from time to time. The blends are excellent. "Dolce Espresso Blend"—an excellent reliable blend that I use regularly for both V60 pour-over and Aeropress—both using stainless steel filters. These techniques yield a sweet, caramel, chocolate cup with enough complexity and good viscous mouthfeel to make interesting cups. In espresso brewing, it yields shots that have similar tasting notes as above, but also evokes what we have found in good cafes in Italy. When friends come over who don't like specialty coffee and want to have an espresso that reminds them of there, they're very happy with espresso made from Dolce Espresso. "Decaf Midnight"—a good solid dark roasted decaf coffee that stands up very well to having cream/milk added to it. My tasting definitely aligns with the GfC description on their website. I do find that I need to bump up my coffee ratio a bit and extend extraction by grinding finer for V60 and brewing longer for Aeropress to not get that "decaf" hollow taste. With those adjustments, it brews a very nice decaf cup most people I serve it to doesn't notice that it's decaf. Their "Winter Seasonal" and "20th Anniversary" blends have also been really excellent! Also, a note on email exchanges with their staff. I'd say probably some of the warmest, and friendly exchanges I've had when buying coffee. Highly recommended for anyone looking for superb quality coffees run by a team of people building a business that puts humanity up front instead of Wall Street profits.

This is great coffee. Not a hint of bitterness. It’s also great to know we are contributing to the growth of a small business.

Ordered fresh roasted coffe for Xmas gifts for my east coast family. I have heard rave reviews on the coffe so...Thanks! Will do it again

Very fast, attentive, responsive, kind, and great coffee!

I just renewed my account for another year, the UMPTEENTH TIME, and I wouldn't consider not doing so. Not only am I ecstatic every time I receive my coffee orders, but every time I send a gift order, my family and friends rave. Still the VERY BEST online retailer in the business, probably the very best online retailer, period, handling gifts with ease and perfection on top of 100% customer service with regular customer orders. The quality of merchandise is unquestioned and the product ethic--the POINT OF THEIR BUSINESS--goes without saying. Never felt more comfortable doing business with anyone.

I have been getting the single origin from Peru. It is rather expensive, but is the best coffee I have found. My friends sneak into my house when I am on vacation to fill their thermoses.