Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters

Sweet Bloom opened in Lakewood, Colorado, in 2013, by the roaster's own account of its founding. The catalog it runs today is small and tightly consistent. Ten active coffees, nine of them roasted medium-light and one lighter still.

Nothing here goes past medium-light. That is the entire roast range, one step of the scale plus a single coffee below it, and a roaster working that narrow has either settled on a house style it trusts completely or accepted that it will lose the customers who want something heavier. Eight of the ten are single origins. El Salvador supplies two of them, as do Ethiopia and Mexico, while Colombia and Kenya add one apiece, so the buying spreads across five countries and two continents without going deep in any of them.

Two blends fill out the shelf. Bags are 10 ounces and run $20.50 to $24, a spread of less than four dollars across the whole catalog, which makes the price of a bag close to irrelevant when you are choosing between them. One coffee is offered without caffeine.

Single Origins

Blends

Roast Profile & Flavor Range

The roast histogram has two entries. Nine coffees at medium-light, one at light. No medium roasts and nothing darker. Whatever a drinker picks from this shelf will have been roasted within one step of everything else on it, and that consistency is the most visible decision the roastery has made.

Acidity averages medium and body medium, which is a moderate pair of readings for a catalog roasted this light and suggests roasts that stop short of the thin, tea-like extreme. Five of the eight single origins are washed and three are natural, with no fermentation experiments listed in the active lineup. The 10 ounce bag is the standard size and costs between $20.50 and $24, with most at $22.50.

What Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters Coffees Tend to Taste Like

Red fruit runs through this catalog. Cherry, raspberry, and plum each appear in two coffees, with blackberry and apricot behind them, and guava turns up twice to push the fruit somewhere warmer and more tropical. That is a lot of fruit for a lineup of ten.

Chocolate is the counterweight. Chocolate, cocoa, and toffee each show up twice, and brownie and cocoa nibs extend the same idea into something denser and more roasted. Champagne is the one note fitting neither group, a dry effervescent descriptor of the sort that usually attaches to a delicate washed lot. The overall shape is fruit first with sweetness underneath, and the medium-light roasting keeps that fruit legible instead of cooking it down into jam.

Why Buy Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters

• A roast range of one step: Nine of ten coffees are medium-light and the tenth is lighter. Nothing on the shelf goes darker.

• Fruit notes that repeat: Cherry, raspberry, plum, and guava each appear in two separate coffees.

• Narrow price spread: Bags run $20.50 to $24 at 10 ounces, under four dollars across the catalog. CoffeeByMe records that band next to the rest of the US roasters it lists.

• A shelf that changes slowly: Five countries and eight single origins, with a roast style you can predict before the bag arrives.

Is Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters Right for You?

This is a filter drinker's shelf. Ten coffees, none roasted past medium-light, all of them pointed at clarity rather than weight, which suits pour over and drip brewing and rewards anyone who grinds fresh and pays attention to water. Espresso drinkers pulling a traditional dark shot will not find one here. Neither will anyone who wants oils on the bean and a smoky finish.

The origin list is also short. Five countries across eight single origins means the catalog turns over slowly rather than offering something new every week.

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