You order. We roast.
Every Tuesday the drum runs for that week's orders and nothing more. No warehouse pallets, no "fresh" stickers on old stock. Your bag exists because you asked for it.
Small-batch subscription · Portland, OR
Roasted Tuesday.
Roasted Tuesday.
At your door Friday.
Kiln roasts your bag to order and ships it within 48 hours, with the roast date stamped on the front. A new single origin lands every month. The bag in your kitchen right now was probably roasted before last season ended.
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across 2,314 subscriber reviews
41,208 bags
roasted to order since 2019
48 hours
max time from drum to shipping label
Check your bag
The average grocery bag was roasted 9 months before you opened it.
Coffee is produce. It peaks between day 4 and day 21 after roasting, then the aromatics fade week by week until what's left tastes flat and generically "coffee-ish."
Grocery bags print a "best by" date a full year out for one reason: so they never have to print the roast date. Flip your current bag over. If you can't find a roast date, that's the answer.
Peak flavor window · day 4-21 after roast
How it works
Three steps, one drum, zero back stock.
Sealed and shipped in 48 hours.
Bags rest overnight to degas, get valve-sealed the next morning, and are handed to USPS within 48 hours of leaving the drum. The roast date goes on the front, not the fine print.
It lands inside the window.
Most US addresses see delivery on day 3 to day 5 after roast, right as the coffee opens up. Grind it, brew it, and taste what the label promised.
This month's roast · July 2026
Ethiopia Guji,
Uraga station
- Producer
- Smallholder lots, Uraga
- Altitude
- 2,100-2,250 MASL
- Process
- Washed, 72-hr ferment
- Variety
- Local heirloom
- Cup score
- 87.5
- Roast
- Light-medium, drop at 402°F
Last month: La Plata, Huila, Colombia. Next up is a natural from Caparaó, Brazil. Subscribers taste a new origin every month without doing any of the homework.
Reserve this roast
Roast Nº 84 · ships Wed 23 Jul
What changes
Fresh is a taste, not a sticker.
The tasting notes actually show up
Volatile aromatics survive when coffee is days old, not months. Day-5 Guji really does taste like apricot. That was always the plan; staleness was hiding it.
Never out, never stockpiled
Pick a cadence of every 2, 4, or 6 weeks, then adjust whenever life changes. One tap skips a month; there is nothing to phone in or cancel-dance around.
Ground right, or not at all
Whole bean by default, or ground at roast time for your exact brewer: espresso, moka, filter, AeroPress, or French press. Set it once per shipment.
A new origin, zero homework
We cup 30-plus lots a month and ship the one that wins. You get the rotation of a good cafe menu while staying in your own kitchen.
Subscriber mail
People notice by the second cup.
"I did a side-by-side against the grocery bag I still had. Same brewer, same ratio. My wife asked what I changed."
"The Huila in June had a roast date printed 4 days before it hit my porch. I checked the tracking to make sure."
"I used to buy 2 lb bags to save money, then drink stale coffee for a month. The 12 oz cadence fixed a problem I didn't know I had."
Pricing
Pick a ticket. Skip whenever.
For reference: a cafe pour-over in Portland runs $6.50 before tip.
The Taster
One 8 oz bag a month, for the one-cup-a-day person.
$16
/month
Works out to $1.33 a cup
- Free US shipping
- Roast date on every bag
- Skip, pause, or cancel anytime
The Standard
One 12 oz bag a month, about 25 cups of the current roast.
$22
/month
Works out to $0.88 a cup
- First bag guarantee
- Free US shipping
- Whole bean or ground to order
- Skip, pause, or cancel anytime
The Household
Two 12 oz bags a month, for two drinkers or one serious one.
$40
/month
Works out to $0.80 a cup
- First bag guarantee
- Split grinds, one whole one ground
- Two origins when the menu allows
The first-bag guarantee
If bag one doesn't beat your current coffee, it's free.
Brew it your usual way for a week. If it doesn't clearly beat what you were drinking before, reply to your shipping email. Full refund, you keep the coffee, no return label, no questions beyond "what should we roast better?"
Gifts
Build a gift box
Coffee people are hard to shop for. This is the cheat code.
Gift 3, 6, or 12 months of roast-day coffee. One payment, no auto-renew, starts on the first roast day after checkout. The first box includes a tasting journal card and a note in your words, written in ours.
Questions
Asked often, answered straight.
Anything else, email hello@drinkkiln.com. A roaster answers, usually between batches on Tuesday.
When will my first bag arrive?
Order by Monday midnight and your bag comes off the drum Tuesday, ships by Wednesday, and reaches most US addresses Thursday to Saturday. Order later in the week and you're first in line for the next roast day.
Whole bean or ground?
Both. Whole bean holds peak flavor longest, but if you don't own a grinder we'll grind for your exact brewer on roast day: espresso, moka, filter, AeroPress, or French press. Change it per shipment in your account.
Can I skip a month?
Yes, with one tap, any time before that week's roast day. Skip as many months as you like; your spot in the rotation is kept and nothing is charged while you're paused.
What if I don't like a coffee?
Your first bag is covered by the guarantee: refund, keep the coffee. After that, tell us which notes missed for you and we tune your profile, e.g. away from bright washed Ethiopians and toward chocolatey naturals.
Do you roast decaf?
Yes. A sugarcane EA decaf from Huila, Colombia, roasted the same Tuesday as everything else. Swap any shipment to decaf, or split a Household plan half and half.
How long does a bag stay fresh?
Valve-sealed whole bean holds near its peak for 3 to 4 weeks after roast. That's the point of the printed roast date: you always know exactly where your bag is on that curve, and the subscription cadence keeps you inside it.
Roast Nº 85 loads Monday midnight
Taste what Tuesday's roast is like.
Order by Monday midnight. Your bag comes off the drum Tuesday, ships within 48 hours, and lands inside the flavor window.
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