The StoryNamed fora town thatisn’t there.
A weathered farmstead on the high plains

Keota, Colorado. Founded 1888. Population, at last honest count: zero.

It sits on the Pawnee grassland in the northeast corner of the state, where the map goes empty and the wind never really stops. A rail town that outlived its railroad. For a few decades there were homes, a school, a bank, a hotel with a sign. Then the trains slowed, the dryland farms failed, and the people left the way water leaves a plain — all at once, and quietly.

What remains is stillness. A church, a few foundations, a grain elevator standing against a sky that is almost always doing something. It is not a sad place. It is a clarified one — a town reduced to exactly what it was, with nothing left to sell you.

We wanted acoffee that feltlike that.
Roasted coffee beans, close
Inside the roastery
How We Roast

Small lots on a vintage drum, profiled by hand, cupped every batch. We roast single origins light enough to hear the farm in them, and one house espresso dark enough to hold a room. Nothing flavored, nothing hidden, nothing gilded.

Revolutionary, we think, only in how little it asks of you.