Rod's Roast

03/24/2026

☕ NEW COFFEE OFFERINGS ☕

🇵🇪 Peru SWP Decaf - chocolate hazelnut, creamy marshmallow, and sweet red apple

People are saying they can't even tell this is decaf! The Swiss Water Process is a chemical free decaf process that uses carbon filters to remove the caffeine from the green beans. The delicious origin characteristics of the coffee are still present and you get a coffee you can drink at all times of the day.

This coffee was produced as an organic coffee.

🇬🇹 Guatemala Los Huipiles - chocolate malt, toasted pecan

A classic profile for Central America that brings out bold chocolate, nutty profile with a sweet malt finish.

🇪🇹 Ethiopia Guji Natural - blueberry donut, tropical fruit, lemonade mixed with a hibiscus aroma.

A natural-processed coffee that lends to the already recognizable fruity profile of an Ethiopian coffee.

02/16/2026

I am excited to offer two new coffees as we get into the new year! Tasting these side by side might end the debate that all coffee tastes the same.

Ethiopia: A natural-processed coffee that lends to the already recognizable fruity profile of an Ethiopian coffee.

Expect nuanced flavors of blueberry, peach, and tropical fruit mixed with a floral aroma.

The coffee was produced as an organic coffee!

Guatemala: A classic profile for Central America that brings out bold chocolate, nutty profile with a sweet malt finish.

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I am excited to offer two new coffees as we get into the new year! Tasting these side by side might end the debate that all coffee tastes the same. 

12/09/2025

Have yourself a merry caffeinated Christmas! 🎄

Order by Dec. 15 for guaranteed pickup before Christmas✨

12/02/2025

If you want to have your coffee roasted and ready by Christmas, please order by December 15th. Current orders are taking about a week to get roasted and processed. Thanks for your patience as we roast your morning brew!

We also reached the end of the bags for PNG Simbai & Uganda Rwenzori last week, but new coffee will be arriving soon.

In the meantime, we still have Afternoon Blend, Colombia Huila, Brazil Cerrado, Kenya Kirinyaga, & Mexico Veracruz Decaf!

As we exit the Thanksgiving season and enter into the Christmas season, I am thankful & grateful for each of you who have supported me through this adventure.

Coffee has a multitude of pleasing aromas during roasting, grinding, brewing, and drinking that make it such an enjoyable beverage.

My prayer is that this coffee I roast can be an offering of a pleasing aroma both to you and to the Lord. Jesus was eventually the ultimate pleasing aroma because of His sacrifice for our sins. I'm thankful to have this beverage/product to remind us of how we should live our lives in sacrifice and in a pleasing aroma to others.

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10/27/2025

It’s 3pm, and you hit the afternoon slump. Brew another cup of coffee and stay up way too late or be tired the rest of the day?

Or you could brew Rod's Roast Afternoon Blend that will give you that short boost you need to get through the day!

Crafted with 50% decaf coffee that has undergone a chemical free Mountain Water Decaffeination Process that removed 99% of the caffeine. The 2nd part comes from the vibrant Kenya Kirinyaga coffee. This combo is a match you will keep coming back for. Pro Tip: Drink it in the morning too if you just want to be able to drink more coffee 😉

Taste Notes: chocolate, toffee, candied orange

Recommended Brew: Espresso or Filter – It’s versatile and holds together well for either brew

Roast: Med-Dark – super smooth, not burnt

Blend Origins:

Mexico Veracruz – Mountain Water Process Decaf – 50%

Kenya Kirinyaga – 50%

09/12/2025

If you have some time, I'd love to grab some of your thoughts for the next few months of website planning and green coffee buying. Thanks!

Thanks for your support of Rod's Roast Specialty Coffee! I am doing some planning for the business and green coffee buying for the next ~6 months, and I want to get a better idea of my customer's desires for coffee. Thanks!

08/01/2025

☕🏖️ SUMMER BLEND 2025 🏖️☕

Smooth & balanced with notes of banana nut muffin 🍌🌰🧁

We decided to craft a special label and make this one 8oz for only $10. Try one of these before they are gone! Limited stock!

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07/16/2025

I always get excited for my green coffee delivery!

Here we have some restocks of 🇧🇷 Brazil Cerrado and 🇨🇴 Colombia Huila Supremo

Brazil is used as the base for Rod's Roast Espresso Blend as it supplies a lot of body and chocolatey nutty notes.

Colombia Huila Supremo was my first coffee offered and it continues to be the crowd favorite! No surprise there as it offers incredible flavor with sweet caramel and silky milk chocolate notes!

Check out all the coffee options at rodsroast.com

07/14/2025

Here’s a little history of my coffee journey:

I first started drinking coffee my 2nd year of college and I would brew a pot of GV donut shop blend 2 hours early so the warmer would go off and I’d have drinkable coffee (burnt, but drinkable lol) I cringe thinking about that, but hey, the best way to brew is the way that tastes good for you, so no judgement!

Eventually I found an old espresso machine at a thrift store in 2019 for $19.99 and even though it was missing several key components, I quickly started learning more about coffee and enjoying morning lattes.

In 2022, I discovered that you could roast your own coffee beans on the stove and I began experimenting with that. It works, but also makes the house super smoky.

I decided to start Rod’s Roast in 2023 because I wanted to bring my love for specialty coffee to the Bluffton community!

All of our coffee is specialty grade meaning it scores 80-100 according to several factors of the coffee. Commercial grade coffee would be grocery store coffee scoring 60-80.

We provide taste notes subtleties which are determined by the bean varietal, terroir (soil & climate conditions), and processing method. Our coffee is always 100% coffee and contains no additives or flavorings.

Roast dates are very important to us because fresh coffee tastes better! Coffees are generally roasted after you order to maximize freshness and offer optimum quality.

Thanks for being part of the this journey! Here are some photos along the way and the last one is me enjoying hot coffee outside in 94 degree heat 😬

07/11/2025

☕🎉 GIVEÅWĀY TIME! 🎉☕

Win 2 bags of delicious fresh-roasted coffee from Rod's Roast!

We're giving away:
1 bag of our single-origin Kenya Kaguyu
1 bag of our single-origin Mexico Veracruz Mountain Water Process Decaf

To enter:
1️⃣ Follow Rod's Roast
2️⃣ Tag a local friend who loves coffee in the comments (One tag = one entry - tag as many as you like)

Winner will be picked on 7-15-25 and announced in these post comments. Watch out for any scam pages impersonating this page.

Local pickup in Bluffton, IN

Rod's Roast is a small batch coffee roastery located in Bluffton, IN with a passion for introducing others to specialty coffee!

06/28/2025

Here are our current coffee offerings! All fresh roasted once you order and porch pickup in Bluffton, IN.

I do have a few extra medium roasts just roasted of PNG, Brazil, Kenya, Uganda, and Colombia.

As always, there is only one ingredient: coffee! The flavor comes from the soil/terroir, bean varietal, and processing method (washed/natural).

Kenya - Kirinyaga
Taste Notes: Lighter roasts have rhubarb, grapefruit, blackcurrant, salted caramel, and floral aromas. Medium roast notes are tangerine, buttery taffy, stroopwafel, and coconut with some chocolatey tones. Darker roasts are more mellow with a honey bitterness, slight orange notes, and chocolate.

Papua New Guinea - Simbai
Taste Notes: Sweet, earthy aromatics with taste notes of dried fig or plum, followed by almond paste or almond croissants, finished with a creamy hot cocoa.

My favorite: It has a creaminess that is unmatched! It almost tastes like ice cream sometimes!

Brazil - Cerrado
Taste notes: Cacao nibs, molasses, walnuts, and very low acidity. The coffee has a traditional cafe taste that is very smooth, mellow, and balanced with a thick body.

Uganda - Rwenzori
Light roasts have a sweet and lively taste of mango, strawberry creme, and graham cracker while medium and dark roasts bring out more chocolate notes of gooey brownie, strawberry jam, date syrup, and butterscotch. This coffee is also mild acidity, but still full of lovely flavor and a clean texture.

Mexico Decaf - Water Process
Taste Notes: Silky milk chocolate and oatmeal cookie followed by lovely orange citrus notes

This decaf coffee has undergone a chemical free Mountain Water Decaffeination Process that removed 99% of the caffeine.

Espresso Blend
Taste Notes: Rich chocolate, subtle sweetness like molasses, nutty, full-bodied.

A perfect blend of Brazil, Colombian, and Uganda beans to use for espresso based drinks.

Colombia - Huila is also offered still!

Taste Notes: Sweet acidic notes of dried fig, green tea, green grape, and milk chocolate Heavy body & moderate acidity – definitely a unique flavor profile and brings in some Indonesian complexity Origin: Simbai, Papua New Guinea Altitude: 1600 – 1900 MASL Process: Washed Variety: Bourbon, Typic...

06/01/2025

☕ NEW COFFEE OFFERING ☕

Papua New Guinea - Simbai

Taste Notes: Sweet, earthy aromatics with taste notes of dried fig or plum, followed by almond paste or almond croissants, finished with a creamy hot cocoa

Heavy body & moderate acidity – definitely a unique flavor profile and brings in some Indonesian complexity

Origin: Simbai, Papua New Guinea

Altitude: 1600 – 1900 MASL

Process: Washed

Variety: Bourbon, Typica

Harvest: April – July 2024

Story of this coffee:

This coffee has put in the miles. Transportation is very difficult in Papua New Guinea due to the mountainous terrain so once the farmers harvest, wash, and process their coffee cherries, they transport it to four airstrips in the Simbai region. Once there is enough coffee for a full planeload, they fly it to Mount Hagen, PNG to be further shipped around the world.

My importer works with their sister company, Volcafe PNG, to make all of this possible including working with over 4000 small farmers in the Simbai region. Most of the farmers process their coffee cherries using hand-powered de-pulpers. The coffee is then left to ferment 36 hours to remove the sticky mucilage and then set out to dry before trekking to the airstrip.

The one good thing about the mountainous terrain and high altitude creates an amazingly complex and flavorful coffee!

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