Like most endeavors, success in the world of commercial coffee roasting requires a focus on and a commitment to the fundamentals. And in the coffee business, everything begins and ends with the beans.
At Cape Cod Coffee Roasters in Mashpee, the company uses beans imported from more than a dozen countries including Colombia, Costa Rica and Ethiopia, and the product arrives at the facility in large, 150-pound burlap bags. The burlap allows the beans inside to breathe, and if you didn’t know, the coffee beans—before roasting—are green.
This coffee company’s roots date back more than a century, but the company did not have a presence on the Cape until 1970 when Demos Young branched off from his family’s business in Salem to open Cape Cod Coffee in Hyannis. Young later opened the Cape’s first roasting facility in Mashpee in 1987, and sold the business to the MacGregor sisters in 2011.