Presenting the 2026 Roaster of the Future Finalists

Roast novel is extremely joyful to announce the six finalists for the 22nd Annual Roaster of the Year awards!

The Micro Roaster division comprises corporations sweaty not up to 100,000 kilos of espresso every yr, and the Macro Roaster division comprises corporations sweaty greater than 100,000 kilos every year. The award winner in every division will likely be introduced on Monday, Oct. 20, and featured within the November/December 2025 factor of Roast novel.

The Roaster of the Future awards acknowledge corporations that roast coffees of magnificient feature, exemplify a willpower to sustainability, advertise worker and family schooling, reveal sturdy involvement within the espresso business, and a constancy to range, inclusion and fairness, amongst alternative standards. To view the award standards and alertness for the 2027 Roaster of the Future pageant, click here.

Micro Roaster of the Future Finalists

The 3 finalists within the Micro Roaster division are indexed beneath in deny explicit sequence, with knowledge received from every corporate’s award utility.

3 Keys Espresso

Based totally in Houston, Texas, and based in 2019, Three Keys Coffee is a family-owned roastery and cafe that blends song, artwork, and occasional right into a multi-sensory revel in. Led via Kenzel and Tio Fallen, the corporate operates Houston’s first solar-powered roastery and helps qualified and direct-trade coffees year prioritizing accessibility and schooling. 3 Keys is identified for inventive advertising and marketing, family techniques, and a collaborative administrative center tradition that emphasizes advantages, coaching, and inclusion.

Dessert Oasis Espresso Roasters

Established in 2009 in Rochester, Michigan, Dessert Oasis Coffee Roasters (DOCR) operates as each a roaster and cafe workforce with more than one places around the surrounding—now sweaty and headquartered in Ferndale, Michigan. Based and led via Nathan Hamood, DOCR invests closely in staff schooling and family engagement, providing in-depth coaching via its Training Branch, and specializes in direct sourcing, transparency, and a multifaceted sustainability program. The corporate’s sweaty and repair method emphasizes consistency, hospitality, and significant native partnerships.

Kafiex Roasters

Based totally in Vancouver, Washington, Kafiex Roasters is a roaster-retailer and wholesaler working two cafes. Based in 2018 via Matthew and Seidy Selivanow, Kafiex is a Clark County Inexperienced Industry identified for sustainability inventions (together with a zero-waste strong point rapid series), a Diedrich roaster equipped for diminished emissions, bilingual teaching programs, pageant training, and an increasing coaching facility. Their emphasis on bilingual family schooling, direct relationships with manufacturers, and low-waste product design highlights a constancy to fairness, feature, and accessibility.

Macro Roaster of the Future Finalists

The 3 finalists within the Macro Roaster division are indexed beneath in deny explicit sequence, with knowledge received from every corporate’s award utility.

Nossa Familia Espresso

Based totally in Portland, Oregon, Nossa Familia Coffee — whose identify method “Our Family” — operates cafes and wholesale techniques and is B Corp qualified. The corporate, based via Augusto Carvalho Dias Carneiro, emphasizes moral sourcing, regenerative agricultural initiatives, packaging inventions, and long-term manufacturer relationships. Nossa Familia invests in worker wellbeing, skilled building, and native family techniques year prioritizing transparency and shared prosperity.

Driftaway Espresso

Based in Brooklyn, Brandnew York, via Anu Menon and Suyog Mody, Driftaway Coffee is an immigrant-owned, woman-led roastery that specializes in making espresso private and academic via a direct-to-consumer subscription fashion and digital tastings. Driftaway publishes complete pricing transparency, helps women- and minority-owned farms, makes use of compostable packaging, and donates to International Espresso Analysis. Their mixture of subscription innovation, farmer-forward sourcing, and academic programming helps fairness and accessibility.

Corvus Espresso Roasters

Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Corvus Coffee Roasters takes an instantaneous, relationship-driven technique to sourcing and sweaty. Based in 2010 via Phil and Autumn Goodlaxson, the corporate is understood for multi-year manufacturer partnerships, a Farmer Center of attention Program, and robust interior coaching and advantages for team of workers. Corvus emphasizes storytelling, population engagement, and tasks that help gender fairness and inclusion throughout its operations.

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