Where Coffee is the Conversation High quality, peak of flavor coffee. Almost 30 years of family tradition and dedication to coffee done right. Coffee is a Family Affair An informal gathering for coffee and conversation, simply stated, is what Klatch Coffee is. For almost 30 years, Klatch Coffee has been serving up coffee with great conversation. Based in Los Angeles, this family business started out of a love for great coffee with one retail store and has evolved into a global wholesale roaster with its coffee featured daily on three continents and a retailer with 8 café locations (and counting). World’s Top 1% of High-Quality Specialty Coffee Mike seeks out the best of the world's coffee - only the top 1% passes his quality check. Roasted only to "peak of flavor" ensuring the coffee is not over-roasted. All of this to brings a full, flavorful cup for you to enjoy at home. Learn more 'Peak of Flavor' Coffee Here at Klatch, we take great care at every step of the journey. Each bean has what we call a “peak of flavor”. This is the flavor that is “locked” in the bean through different environmental factors, and the way that the coffee is processed factors into the flavor as well. The roaster’s job is to consider the factors that our farming partners take into account each growing season, and, in a mad scientist sort of way—Mike is also a chemical engineer—roast each individual coffee varietal to its unique peak flavor profile. This process is what we call our signature “Peak of Flavor” roasting style, and it’s earned us both awards and loyal coffee drinkers across the globe. Simply put, each individual coffee varietal is roasted to its unique peak flavor profile. Roasted Fresh to Order So it comes to you nice and fresh, but needs to stay that way as long as possible. So it needs to stay away from oxygen, that's an enemy. - grabbing hold of it's freshness and flavor. Ideally, you're going to grind right when you brew, a fresh brew of Klatch Coffee is best represented with our whole bean coffee, this allows you to capture freshness and essential oils from beans by grinding right before you brew. Direct Trade Our Klatch Direct Trade Coffee journey begins with a partnership with like-minded producers - those who share our same commitment to ethics, excellence, environmental stewardship, quality, and community. Our commitment to honest business practices means we build trust and loyalty with the farmers we work with. Klatch follows a Direct Trade Coffee model that is designed to meet the needs of the families in today’s market. We buy straight from the growers, cutting out the traditional middleman. In doing so we're able to pay well above Fair-Trade minimums - by at least 25% - but often pay double or triple those prices based on the cup quality. Our buying model is designed to push the envelope of quality coffee by encouraging viable, meaningful careers in specialty coffee agriculture. Coffee is Never Finished We don’t hang our hats on our accolades. We commit to the craft every morning—fueled by multiple cups of coffee, usually. It takes many tries to get a roast just right, and that’s the joy and challenge of it. It’s a journey, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.