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    Every coffee, every flavor, every number. Filter by what you love and find the one that stops you mid-sip.

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TORQUE

Torque: the force it takes to reach equilibrium. You're the force.

We're a coffee roaster and shop in City Heights, San Diego. Coffee Lifers, 20+ years in. Coffee is people, so we work with great coffee people, source for sweetness, and keep 20% of every bag at origin. Every cup here should amaze you. If one doesn't, that's on us, and we'll remake it.

You don't have to trust us on any of it. You can check our work.

Coffees for the Modernist

Coffees for the Classicist

Check The Math

A minimum of 20% of the retail price of every bag of coffee remains in the hands of the people at origin where it was grown. Coffee Producers know exactly what you paid and what they earned.

  • Bag retail: $22.00
  • Stays at origin: (20%)$4.40
  • Always 20% or higher
The Numbers

Sweetness Wins.

It starts at origin, with the producer's art. Coffee doesn't have a flavor. It has flavors, layers of them, built long before it reaches our roaster. Our job is the roaster's art: amplify and enhance what's already there, never impose a style on top of it. We source and roast for sweetness and complexity, and the roast follows the coffee, not the other way around.

Sweetness wins.

The Approach

San Diego Born.

The building's been here since the 1930s. Vinyl in the 70s, underground punk in the 80s, quiet for a while, then us. Come sit in it.

We will have a cup ready for you.

The Room

Rad Coffee People

Meet the coffee producers who grow, process, and mill our coffees.

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The record.

We roast for the cup in front of you. Medals are the happy recognition that happens along the way. Coffee Review has scored six of our coffees between 90 and 95 points, one landing in their Top 30 Coffees of the year. Golden Bean has handed us medals for espresso, oat milk, filter, and decaf, gold included, across three years running.

We source for sweetness and complexity. Roast on purpose. And always aim to amaze.

Awards & Recognition