The roastery

HoneyCo Coffee Roasters

Behind glass in a remodeled bank in downtown Morro Bay, in full view of the cafe.

HoneyCo Coffee Roasters is our sister company, and it roasts every coffee we serve at Scout. HoneyCo sells direct to customers all over the country, and runs a wholesale program with a handful of corporate and restaurant partners we are glad to work with.

If you want to see how your coffee is made, come sit where you can watch it.

The floor

The green coffee

We buy from the top 1 percent of fresh crop and through relationships with producers wherever we can. We pay well above Fair Trade prices for all of our coffees.

The labels on our coffee bags stay familiar, but the coffees underneath rotate seasonally with each fresh crop. Our roast and flavor profile stay consistent all year round.

All of that buying happens before anything reaches the roaster. Roasting gets the most out of a good coffee, so everything that matters is settled at the buying table.

The Loring Kestrel 35 Kilo

Most roasters hold an open flame against a spinning drum. The Loring recirculates clean hot air through the drum instead, and uses that same burner to incinerate the smoke the roast gives off. The stack runs around 1,500 degrees, which makes it one of the cleanest and most efficient roasters built.

For us it is responsive, easy to adjust in small increments, and repeatable batch after batch. It is made in the USA, and it makes excellent coffee.

Consistency

Lots change through the year. So does the weather in the roastery and the moisture in the coffee. Hitting the same profile in September that we hit in February takes a record of exactly what we did.

Every batch is logged as it runs, with temperature readings every 4 seconds from several probes. We have tens of thousands of saved batches, and we roast against them.

The drop

At the end of the roast the batch falls into the cooling tray and the arms start turning. Coffee coming off the drum holds enough heat to keep roasting itself, so we bring it down fast.

From the roaster to your door

When you order HoneyCo coffee here on the Scout site, the order goes straight through to HoneyCo, where we roast it and ship it. Everything ships within 1 day of roasting.

Shipping days are Monday through Friday. Orders go out USPS Priority and are typically in transit 2 to 4 days anywhere in the US, and 1 to 2 days inside California.

Come see it

A few blocks from the water.

Order a coffee and a house made pastry, sit where you can see the roaster, and watch a batch run.

Visit Scout Morro Bay Inside the bakery Visit HoneyCo Wholesale