Established January 1, 2019

Hello there! I’m the head roaster and owner of Kojo Roastery, a small specialty coffee roaster based in the tiny town of Stacyville, Iowa, with a population of fewer than 500 people.

I’m lucky to run Kojo alongside my wife. Between the two of us, we handle just about everything that goes into keeping a small roasting company moving: roasting, packaging, social media, graphic design, shipping, customer service, and plenty of other jobs behind the scenes.

Kojo is very much a hands-on, small-family business, and we’re genuinely grateful for every person who chooses to buy coffee from us. A lot of care goes into every bag, and we hope you can taste that effort in what we believe is some pretty exceptional coffee.

About the roastery itself, we operate out of a small remodeled and updated lean-to attached to the side of a big red loft barn. We’re certified as a commercial kitchen by the state of Iowa and take food safety and proper handling seriously to make sure every coffee is roasted, packaged, and shipped with care.

For our more classic coffees, we roast on a Giesen 6A, a traditional drum roaster built in the Netherlands. It gives us the control and consistency we want for balanced, approachable coffees with sweetness, body, and depth.

For our more exotic and experimental coffees, we use a state-of-the-art Sivetz electric air roaster. Its fluid-bed roasting system gives us a completely different way to approach coffee, allowing us to push clarity, fruit character, and unique processing styles in a way that fits our more adventurous offerings.

Both roasters are paired with computer tracking software that lets us closely monitor and refine each roast, giving every coffee the approach that suits it best.