2025 RISING COFFEE PRICES
High coffee prices is making news everywhere from The Wall Street Journal, local news channels, and on most coffee roasters blogs.
In summary, the price increases are industry wide stemming from the impact of drought and excess temperatures in some of the key growing regions. All signs point to a prolonged period of high arabica green coffee prices. The worsening climate crisis remains a key risk to coffee-growing regions, with rising temperatures and unpredictable rainfall threatening global supplies. At the same time, labor shortages in origin countries, the high costs of farming inputs, and political instability has exacerbated market conditions.
All of these factors and more contribute to what is called Commodity Market or “C Market” costs. When we buy coffee, prices start at the “C Market” price. This is the base cost to purchase coffee, not our final cost. We as roasters, are quoted prices based on the “C Market” plus this and plus that to arrive at our final cost. Therefore, we are always susceptible to the C Market price of coffee.
Like most roasters we future purchase our coffee. Meaning we purchase coffee lots far in advance. Those purchases are at the going “C Market “ price. We are then locked in at that “C Market” price until we need to repurchase. So, we are always checking C Price to try and stay ahead of the game and bulk purchase when the market dips.
As we restock our supplies we must pay at the new “C Market” price which has seen record breaking price increases.
To manage this increasingly complex environment, we have had to raise our prices and find a middle ground that meets the needs of our business with minimal impact to our customers. Ultimately, this means pricing may become volatile this year if additional market forces cause large swings in pricing, but we have always worked to maintain prices when we can. We are working with our importers and direct trade partners to manage supply closely and secure more stable prices with forward buying when the market warrants.
Our focus will remain to consistently deliver coffees scoring in the 83 to 90-point range, which provides excellent value while maintaining our quality standards.
We thank everyone for your continued support! Your support helps us maintain our coffeehouses and provide year-round jobs for our staff and supports the entire coffee supply chain.