Roasting great coffees with care and delivering via bicycle



Why should you buy from Small Cog Coffee?

  • We offer great coffees. 
  • Starting off your day with coffee at home is less expensive that hitting the cafe.
  • Did we mention the coffees are really good?
  • We deliver your coffee via bicycle.  How cool is that? 
  • We are a (very) small  business operating out of Seattle's Roosevelt neighborhood.
Who are we?

We are a micro roaster located in the Roosevelt neighborhood of Seattle that strives to employ sustainable practices and provide home delivery of freshly roasted coffees to our neighbors. We love the neighborhood that we live in and hope to raise people’s awareness of what high quality, freshly roasted coffee can taste like.

Along with a passion for coffee we also have a long standing fascination with the bicycle. This interest compels us to provide our home delivery service via bicycles outfitted with an “Xtracycle” load extending sub frames. In our estimation, increased bicycle use can make a marked improvement to our neighborhood and city, plus it is fun.

Delivery Area?

Please see the map below, or click here to see a slightly larger version of how far we stray from home.  Basically the area is downtown north to 125th.  If you live on the map we will be happy to ride your order on over.  I've had a few people mention that they didn't want us to, "go out of our way"; just remember that we love to ride our bikes and it is our pleasure to ride any order to your home.



What is our coffee philosophy?

First off, coffee is a very labor intensive crop to bring to market. It is estimated that the beans that you drink every day were handled by 20 different people during the various steps necessary to deliver the coffee to you. By having a better idea of the work involved in producing high quality coffee, we hope that you have a heightened appreciation of the beans you are consuming.

We at Small Cog Coffee treat coffee as the very perishable commodity that it is. Coffee is best 3 to 10 days after roasting. Whole bean coffee that has sat around more than 2 weeks has lost much of the aroma and taste that coffee lovers appreciate. As a result of the perishable nature of roasted coffee we recommend that you only order enough coffee to get you through the week. If you run short just drop us a line and we will swing some more of the sweet stuff by, we promise.

Ground coffee deteriorates even more quickly than the whole bean variety. Once ground, coffee will noticeably loose flavor with in an hour of it being ground. The easiest way to explain this process is to think about the change in surface area between whole bean and ground coffee. Each bean after it is ground goes from being one piece to hundreds of tiny bits of coffee. All of the aroma and lipids that were locked in the bean after roasting have now been released or are much closer to the surface after the grinding process. As a result, freshly ground coffee = best quality cup. We beg you to not grind our coffees until you are ready to consume them.

Using a burr grind such as the Barratza or Mazzer Mini will maximize the consistency of grind which in turn will lead to a better tasting cup of coffee or espresso.