Reveille Coffee

Reveille Coffee pours in San Francisco, with a counter on Columbus Avenue and another across the bay in Berkeley. Five coffees are active on the retail side and all five are single origins. There are no blends.

The origin list reaches Ethiopia twice, with Colombia, Guatemala, and Rwanda holding one slot each. Roasting sits mostly at medium. Four of the five land there, and the fifth goes dark, which makes it the only coffee in the catalog carrying that much development and the only one likely to read as roasty in the cup.

Two of the five are processed anaerobically or with an extended ferment. On a shelf of five that is a large share, and it suggests the green buying is not being done conservatively. One coffee is decaf. Bags run 8.8 ounces, which is 250 grams, so the sticker price needs converting before you set it next to a twelve-ounce bag from anyone else and decide which one is expensive.

Single Origins

Roast Profile & Flavor Range

Four coffees at medium, one dark. That is the whole histogram. Nothing sits at light or medium-light, so the catalog is built around a middle roast with a single darker option at the edge of it. Acidity and body both average dead center on the five-point scale, which is about as even a pair of readings as a five-coffee catalog can produce and matches how often the word balanced turns up in the notes.

Processing is where the risk lives. Two of five run anaerobic or fermented, which puts wine-adjacent lots on the same short shelf as conventional ones. At 8.8 ounces, prices run $20 to $30 with the median at $23. One decaf is in the mix.

What Reveille Coffee Coffees Tend to Taste Like

Strawberry comes up twice, once stewed and once as strawberry cream, and apricot appears twice more, which makes soft red and orange fruit the dominant register across the catalog. Cherry turns up once. None of it reads as sharp citrus. The fruit here is cooked and sweet rather than raw and acidic, closer to jam on toast than to a squeeze of lemon.

Sweetness is named directly on two coffees and balance on two more. Cocoa and chocolate appear once each, anchoring the darker end of the shelf. A floral and tea-like thread runs underneath, quieter than the fruit but present enough to shape the finish. Put together, the palate is round. Nothing on the list points to a bracing, high-acid cup, and the medium roast band supports that reading.

Why Buy Reveille Coffee

• Single origin only, no blends: Five active coffees, five single origins. The catalog rises and falls with what the roastery can buy.

• Medium roast with fruit intact: Four of five sit at medium, and the notes still run to apricot and cherry.

• Fermented lots on a short shelf: Two of the five are anaerobic or extended ferment, a large share of a five-coffee list.

• Fruit that tastes cooked: Stewed strawberries and strawberry cream, not lemon and green apple. The sweetness arrives already softened.

Is Reveille Coffee Right for You?

Five coffees, all single origin, no blend standing behind them. That is the trade you are making. When an origin sells out there is no house bag to fall back on, and the shelf turns over as the buying does.

Reveille suits a drinker who wants medium roasts with real fruit still in them, especially the soft stewed kind, and who is curious about fermented processing without wanting an entire shelf of it. Two of the five qualify. Go elsewhere if you want light-roast florals, because nothing here is roasted that pale. Go elsewhere too if you want a blend built to hold up in milk.

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