PINE BARRENSCOFFEE CO.

Coming soon · Roasted in South Jersey

Coffee from the edge of the pines.

A father and son, roasting specialty coffee in small batches in the heart of South Jersey. The first roasts are on their way.

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Doug Smith and his son Brian at a wooden table, raising Pine Barrens Coffee Co. mugs under the company sign
A black Pine Barrens enamel mug steaming beside a campfire and a lantern

Our story

Named for a million acres of pitch pine.

The Pine Barrens cover more than a million acres of South Jersey: pitch pine, cedar swamps, tea-colored rivers and miles of sand road. South Jersey is home, so the company is named after them.

Pine Barrens Coffee Co. is Doug Smith and his son Brian. We roast whole-bean coffee ourselves, a small batch at a time.

We are starting with one coffee, a washed Colombia from Productores de Buesaco, and adding more as we go. When we launch, it will be sold locally in South Jersey.

Doug & Brian Smith · South Jersey

The first lineup

Three origins, numbered like a field journal.

Nothing is for sale yet. Colombia is the coffee we have in hand and the first we will roast. Ethiopia and Sumatra are likely to follow, and details may change before the first bag ships.

  • 01

    First up

    COLOMBIA

    BUESACO

    City Roast

    Washed

    Notes
    Toffee · Pear · Butter · Milk Chocolate
    Varieties
    Bourbon · Caturra · Typica · Variedad Colombia
    Producer
    Productores de Buesaco

  • 02

    Likely next

    ETHIOPIA

    BIRBIRSA

    Full City

    Dry process

    Notes
    Red Honey · Peach · Cocoa
    Variety
    Heirloom varieties

  • 03

    Likely next

    SUMATRA

    ACEH TENGAH

    French Roast

    Wet hulled · Giling Basah

    Notes
    Rustic sweetness · Bittersweet · Alder · Incense
    Varieties
    Gayo 1 · Gayo 2 · Gayo 3

How we roast

Slow mornings, patient fire.

  1. I

    Small batches

    A few pounds at a time, so every batch gets watched from first crack to cooling tray.

  2. II

    Roasted fresh

    Beans are bagged within days of roasting, not months. Freshness is most of the flavor.

  3. III

    Close to home

    Sold locally in South Jersey, by the two people who roasted it.

A steel scoop of dark roasted beans spilling from a burlap sack
Water poured over a paper filter into a glass carafe, a Pine Barrens mug behind
Close-up of roasted coffee beans with steam rising
A cup of black coffee on an old map of the pines beside a brass compass
The top of a black Pine Barrens Coffee Co. bag on the forest floor

Coming soon

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