Irving Farm Coffee

Irving Farm has roasted coffee in New York since 1996 and marks its thirtieth year in 2026. The catalog is blend-led. Nine of the 15 active coffees are blends, 60 percent of the list, and the six single origins arrive one bag per country, from Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Papua New Guinea, and Peru.

Roast levels cover the full range but sit heavier past the middle than before it. Seven coffees are medium, two are medium-dark, and three are dark, against two light and one medium-light. Acidity averages medium-low and body medium-high, which is the numeric shape of a cup meant to hold up in a mug with milk in it.

Bags at the house 10.6 ounce size run $18 to $25, with the median at $19.50. One coffee is decaf. The price band is narrow, and it fits a list organized around blends that repeat rather than around single lots that appear once and then vanish.

Single Origins

Blends

Roast Profile & Flavor Range

Seven of the 15 active coffees are roasted medium. Five sit darker than that, three of them fully dark, and three sit lighter. Acidity averages medium-low and body medium-high, a combination that describes a cup with more weight than sparkle.

Origin information is spare. Six single origins arrive one each from Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Papua New Guinea, and Peru, with washed processing recorded on two of them and natural on one. The geographic spread is wide, but it does not translate into depth at any one origin, which is what tends to happen when blends take 60 percent of the shelf. Prices sit in a narrow band. A 10.6 ounce bag runs $18 to $25 with a $19.50 median, and nothing active costs more than that.

What Irving Farm Coffee Coffees Tend to Taste Like

Chocolate in all its forms is the house note. Plain chocolate, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, baker's chocolate, and bittersweet chocolate each appear on one or two coffees, and together they outnumber every other descriptor in the catalog. Caramel is the most common single note on its own, listed four times.

Fruit barely registers. Black cherry appears once. So does bourbon, and so does black tea, which is the closest this catalog comes to a delicate note. Two coffees are described as balanced, two more as smooth, and one as having balanced sweetness, and that vocabulary matters, because it points to a roaster describing texture as much as flavor. With acidity averaging medium-low, that is an honest picture. This is a chocolate and caramel list with body behind it.

Why Buy Irving Farm Coffee

• New York since 1996: Thirty years of roasting in one city, with a catalog that has settled into a house style rather than chasing the season.

• Blend-led and steady: Nine of the 15 active coffees are blends, and the roast weighting sits at medium and darker.

• Everything under $25: Bags at the 10.6 ounce house size run $18 to $25, with the median at $19.50.

• Chocolate before fruit: Five forms of chocolate turn up across the cup notes and caramel appears four times, while the whole fruit contribution amounts to a single cherry note.

Is Irving Farm Coffee Right for You?

Anyone who takes coffee with milk, or who drinks a pot through the morning, is the right customer. The medium-to-dark weighting and the medium-high body point at drip and espresso. Prices stay under $25 across the whole active list.

Light roast drinkers should go elsewhere. Two coffees are roasted light and only one single origin is naturally processed, so the bright, fruit-driven end of specialty is not on offer here. The single origin selection is shallow in another way too, with one bag per country and no chance to compare two lots from the same place. There is one decaf.

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