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Wild Card Roasters is a San Francisco Bay Area coffee roaster with decades of hands-on experience in green coffee selection, roasting, blending, and cupping. That experience is at the heart of Weaver’s Coffee & Tea, our flagship consumer brand.
Based in San Rafael, California, we focus on quality, craftsmanship, consistency, and developing coffees with distinctive flavor, aroma, body, and character.
DECADES OF COFFEE ROASTING EXPERIENCE
Master Coffee Roaster John Weaver has been roasting coffee since 1980. He began his career at Peet’s Coffee, where he worked alongside Alfred Peet and Sal Bonavita and trained as a coffee roasting apprentice from 1980 to 1984.
Weaver continued his career at Peet’s until 2007, when he left to help establish Wild Card Roasters and Weaver’s Coffee & Tea in San Rafael, California.
More than four decades of roasting experience continue to shape how we approach coffee today. From evaluating green coffee to developing the roast and tasting the finished cup, we rely on experience and attention to detail at every stage.
OUR APPROACH TO COFFEE
Great coffee begins with quality green coffee, but how that coffee is roasted determines much of what ultimately develops in the cup.
We roast with an understanding that every coffee is different. Origin, variety, processing method, density, moisture, and other characteristics influence how a coffee responds during roasting. Our job as coffee roasters is to understand those differences and develop each roast to achieve the flavor, aroma, body, balance, and character we are looking for.
That approach extends to our blends, where individual coffees and roast profiles are brought together to create a distinctive and consistent cup.
THE COFFEE BEHIND WEAVER’S COFFEE & TEA
Weaver’s Coffee & Tea is the flagship consumer brand of Wild Card Roasters.
Through Weaver’s Coffee & Tea, coffee drinkers can experience our approach to roasting across a collection of signature blends, single-origin coffees, espresso, decaffeinated coffees, and medium, medium-dark, and dark roast coffees.
Whether we are developing a balanced medium roast, a rich espresso, or the deep, full-bodied character of a dark roast, our focus remains the same: roast exceptional coffee with craftsmanship and consistency.
FRESH-ROASTED IN SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA
Our coffee is roasted in San Rafael, California, where Wild Card Roasters and Weaver’s Coffee & Tea were founded in 2007.
We continue to approach coffee the way experienced coffee roasters always have: start with quality coffee, understand the roast, taste the results, and never stop paying attention to the cup.