About
Slow craftsmanship, daily.
Emberhaus is a small roastery with a short menu and long habits. We roast in 12-kilo batches, cup everything we sell, and would rather drop a coffee from the list than ship a batch we don't stand behind.
Where Emberhaus began
The roastery started the way most do: a secondhand drum roaster in a rented corner of a workshop, and more curiosity than sense. The first year was spent ruining coffee in every instructive way — too fast, too dark, too soon out of the bag.
What survived that year was a conviction: coffee is an agricultural product, and our whole job is not to get in its way. The menu stays short so every coffee on it gets roasted often, tasted often, and adjusted as the season moves.
How we roast
Every coffee gets its own profile, built at the cupping table and revisited through the season as the green ages. Washed Ethiopians are kept light and quick; a wet-hulled Sumatra wants time and heat, and gets both.
We roast to order, rest each coffee before it ships — five days for filter roasts, ten for espresso — and print the roast date on every bag. If a batch drifts from its profile, it becomes staff coffee, not your coffee.
How we source
We buy from a small circle of farms, cooperatives, and washing stations — most of them named on the bag — and we go back every harvest. Lots are selected blind at the cupping table and paid for by cup score, which consistently means prices well above the commodity market.
Long relationships are the quiet advantage: producers who know we'll return can invest in drying beds, picking passes, and the unglamorous details that end up in your cup.
Sustainability, without the brochure
Packaging
Bags are mono-material and kerbside-recyclable. Shipping boxes are plain kraft, sized to the order, with no plastic fill.
Roastery
The roaster runs on renewable electricity, chaff goes to a local community garden, and burlap sacks go to anyone who asks.
Farm level
Paying by quality, returning every season, and committing volumes early — the least decorative and most useful things a roaster can do.