David's Roasting

05/18/2026

Greetings friends! We will not be roasting on Friday this week - May 22 - so please get your orders in today if you're running low. We will resume our normal schedule next Tuesday. Thank you, for your continued support!

11/20/2025

To help ensure shipped coffee arrives in time for Thanksgiving, please order by today!

04/12/2025

Our cafe, , is celebrating a milestone anniversary. We'll be serving up small bites of house-made sweets and savories, along with really great, fresh-roasted coffee. Please join us!

04/11/2025

Hey there coffee lovers!! It's hard to believe our cafe, Java Garden, has been open for 5 years, but it's true!! Come help us celebrate, next Saturday, April 19th, from 8am to noon! If you've never been to the cafe before, there's no better reason to stop in and see what makes it one of the best in town: The great coffee in a great atmosphere. Pick up a bag or two of beans while you're there!!

The address is 2699 Mission Village Drive, SD 92123. 858-276-7045

03/18/2024

Great news, all!! The remediation is complete and the roastery has been put back together! We are at full roasting capacity again! Drink up, my friends!!

03/01/2024

02/04/2024

Storm watch 2024 update...We are back in production, but on a semi-limited basis. You are welcome to put an order in, however, note that fulfillment will be based on whether or not the city keeps the floods under control. Thank you for your patience.

01/22/2024

Uh....er....um....looks like we won't be roasting for a little while folks... That's enough rain for now, thank you. Will let you know when we're back up and running...sigh....

12/06/2023

Greetings!!! Happy Holidays to all our friends, family and coffee enthusiasts!! We are very excited to announce a new coffee in our lineup...for as long as it lasts. We were able to get 35kg of a beautiful Colombia Pijao, Quindio region. The farm is at an elevation of 1720m (5645′) and this coffee is a blend of Typica (Castillo) and Caturra. It is a fully wet processed coffee, and exhibits aroma of nuts, orange and molasses. It has flavors of sugar cane, toasted almonds and a subtle bright floral note which is typical of the region. It is a medium body coffee and has aftertastes of caramelized coconut and vanilla.

This won't last long, so give it a try!! Look for it under our Single Origins at www.davidsroasting.com!

11/17/2023

Remember to order coffee before Tuesday's roast if you're local so that you have fresh roasted coffee for next weekend. Heaven forbid you face Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Weekend, etc... without your David's caffeination!

09/29/2023

Happy National Coffee Day, my caffeinated friends!! Drink up!!

08/07/2023

Greetings coffee lovers! So….ever wonder what’s really going on inside that K-cup? Those who profess to be “coffee lovers” may find this short piece to be down right disturbing, so best look away now.

Here we go. David’s “K-cup Exposed”…

Let’s begin with the whole concept. While one cannot argue the convenience or the ability for 30 people in an office to each have their own cup of crappy coffee on-demand…(oops, Freudian slip there)…but there are a number of serious problems with the system. First and foremost, they are really dirty inside. They use cheap plastic materials for the plumbing which makes it nearly impossible to use proper cleaning agents to make sure there is no buildup and mold and mildew, which has been shown to be a serious problem with the machines. No matter how clean your water, you risk passing these on to your cup…and your body. I won’t even get into how bad they are for the environment! Stop contributing to the piles of garbage on the planet. No one recycles those cups. Enough of the scare tactics, let’s move on to the flavor.

In order for your cup of coffee to be at the peak of flavor, there are two important things, first is that the coffee must be fresh and ground minutes before brewing. This tosses the whole K-cup idea out the window. The coffee is pre-ground in cups that can be sitting in the warehouse and stores and your kitchen for months and months. Remember that once ground, coffee’s lifespan is about 15 minutes before it goes stale, and that includes sitting in a K-cup. The other important thing is that the coffee actually is the right ratio of coffee to water. In the photos, you will see that the contents of the K-cup only fills about 2/3 of the container, and it’s ground to fine drip.

Anything describing a K-cup as “espresso” is an out and out lie, or perhaps just misleading advertising. No, it’s a freakin’ LIE! Espresso is an super fine grind – not quite to Turkish, which is like talcum powder, but extremely fine. The coffee in a K-cup is ground to what we would consider a coarse pour-over or fine drip level. The pressure required to make espresso requires the machine to be made out of solid brass and stainless steel and if you tried to put that pressure on a Keurig, it would explode into a million pieces, just like that model airplane you made as a kid, and then your brother put firecrackers in it, blowing it all to hell and then he denied it when you told your parents, and he never got in trouble….but I digress….

In another photo, you can see that the weight of the contents is only 9 grams. That’s appropriate for about a 5-6 ounce cup of coffee, or a single shot of espresso, but again the Keurig is not an espresso machine it’s a drip coffee maker. Since the machine is programmed to dispense 10oz of water, if you’re not using a 6oz cup and stopping the brewing manually, you’re getting watered down stale coffee. A “proper” 12oz cup of coffee should contain 18g of coffee, depending on your level of fortitude.

So my K-cup lovers, that’s the truth. It’s stale, it’s underweight and it’s just lousy coffee to begin with. I know there are people out there who can’t live without the convenience, but if you really want GREAT coffee, buy it fresh from a local roaster, grind it just before you brew it.