Micro roastery · 1.2 kilos at a time
Roasted quiet.
A one-drum roastery working in 1.2 kilo batches — roughly three bags at a time. We roast against the day's orders and ship inside 48 hours, because that's the window where coffee is actually worth what you paid for it.
Roasted to order
Free shipping over $45
Farm-direct & price transparent
Every bag dated by hand
Roasted to order
Free shipping over $45
Farm-direct & price transparent
Every bag dated by hand
The Current Table
What's roasting now
The Lineup
Five roasts, one passage.
Elijah waits on the mountain. A great wind tears at the rocks, then an earthquake, then a fire — and God is in none of them. What comes after is a whisper. The five blends walk that sequence from loudest to quietest, and the line on each bag gets calmer as you go.
Dark
Fire
The loudest thing in the room.
Espresso
Earthquake
Ground-shaking, built for pressure.
Medium
Wind
Everyday, moving, everywhere.
Light
Whisper
The one you lean in for.
Decaf
Stillness
The line goes flat. Arrived.
Subscription
Let us pick, and keep picking.
Choose a rhythm. We roast the day before it ships, match the grind to your setup, and you can pause or cancel from your account whenever you like.
Every 4 weeks
The Slow Cup
$17 / bag
One 12 oz bag a month. Enough for one or two careful drinkers.
- Roaster's choice or pick your own
- Free shipping
- Pause or skip anytime
Every 2 weeks
The Table
$16 / bag
Our most common rhythm. A fresh 12 oz bag every other week.
- Work through all five blends
- Free shipping · 10% off extras
- First to know when a lot changes
Weekly
The Full Pot
$15 / bag
For households that go through a bag a week, or a small office.
- Choose 2 lb or 2 × 12 oz
- Free shipping · 15% off extras
- Priority in the roast queue
“And after the fire a still small voice.”1 Kings 19:12
Our Name
Where "Still Small" comes from.
The name is from 1 Kings 19. Elijah, exhausted and hiding in a cave, is told to go stand on the mountain. A wind comes and splits the rocks. Then an earthquake. Then fire. God isn't in any of them. Then comes what the King James translates as a still small voice — and that's the one he covers his face for.
We named a coffee company after it because the idea holds up outside the passage too: the thing worth paying attention to is usually not the loudest thing in the room. That's a decent philosophy for roasting, where the temptation is always to push darker and louder than the bean wants to go.
If you don't share the faith behind it, nothing here will be pushed at you — it's a coffee company, and the coffee has to be good on its own terms. If you do, you'll notice the five blends walk Elijah's whole sequence, and you'll know why the decaf bag's line is flat.
01
Sourced
Farm-direct and transparent-trade lots, cupped as samples before we commit to a bag.
02
Profiled
Each new lot gets three to five test roasts before it ever goes on the site.
03
Roasted to order
We roast against the day's orders. Your bag is stamped with the date it left the drum.
04
Shipped in 48
Out the door within two days, rested just long enough to be ready when it lands.
Wholesale
For cafes, offices, and churches pouring for others.
We keep a short wholesale list on purpose — enough accounts to keep the drum busy, few enough that we can dial in your espresso in person. Tell us what you're pouring and we'll send pricing and a sample box.
Typical partners: 2 lb bags, weekly or biweekly, tiered pricing from 10 lb/month.
Add your wholesale form here: create it in WPForms or Fluent Forms, then paste the shortcode into a Custom HTML block, or filter stillsmall_wholesale_form in functions.php.
Roast Notes
Know when a new lot lands.
One short email when something new comes off the drum. Nothing else.
Add your MailPoet or Mailchimp form shortcode via the stillsmall_signup_form filter.