Midnight Rider dark roast, whole bean coffee from Heretic Coffee Co.
Dark Roast

Midnight Rider

$21.00

Size

Midnight Rider is our dark roast. This is the darker expression of the same blend that makes up our Holy Roller blend, but roasted longer and deeper for people who want their coffee hot, black, and unapologetically dark. Low acidity with a heavy body and a grounded flavor that holds up through long hours and early mornings.

Expect notes of deep malt sweetness, dark chocolate, and a cola-like richness. It’s smooth without being soft, bold without being bitter. Built for drip brewers, thermoses, and refills.

$1.17 per bag sold will go to our SNAP Breakfast Fund.

At a glance

Origin Guatemala and Ethiopia
Elevation Varies by lot
Variety Bourbon, Caturra, Ethiopian heirloom
Process Washed and natural
Roast Dark
Tasting notes Malt, dark chocolate, cola
Best for Drip, thermoses and refills
Roasted Portland, Oregon
Origins

Where does this coffee come from?

Midnight Rider is the same green coffee as Holy Roller, a washed Guatemalan with a natural Ethiopian, taken further into the roast.

The extra time trades the bright fruit for deep malt sweetness, dark chocolate and a cola-like richness, with low acidity and a heavy body. It's smooth without being soft and bold without being bitter.

HuehuetenangoQuetzaltenangoGuatemala City
Guatemala
HawassaMekeleDire DawaAddis Ababa
Ethiopia

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Western Highlands, Guatemala

Guatemala

Guatemala's highland coffee grows on small family farms in volcanic soil, high enough that the cherries ripen slowly and sweeten. The washed process, pulped, fermented and rinsed within a day of picking, keeps the cup clean: chocolate, caramel and a round body.

The details

Elevation1,500–2,000 m

Coffee grown high ripens slowly in cool air, which concentrates sugar and acidity. This will tell you a lot about how a cup will taste.

VarietyBourbon and Caturra

Coffee plants vary, which is why we can get different tastes from different types of coffee. It's like how a wine names its grape. Bourbon and Typica lean sweet and classic; Gesha is floral and rare; Castillo and Catimor beans were planted to survive leaf rust so a farm can keep producing in even the harshest of weather.

ProcessWashed

This is how the fruit was removed from the seed after picking. Washed is clean and bright, and natural is dried whole and tastes of fruit and ferment. This choice changes the cup more than almost anything else.

RoastDark

We roast to the point where the coffee is sweetest rather than to a fixed color, so a light roast here may be darker than a light roast somewhere else.

Best forDrip, thermoses and refills

What we built the roast around. Any coffee can be brewed any way, but this is where we think this one is happiest, and it is how we dialed it in on the bar.

Why we buy it

This is foundation of Holy Roller and Midnight Rider. The Guatemalan side brings the body and the chocolate that hold up under milk, and it goes deep and smooth when we roast it dark.

The farm

It comes to us as  a washed Guatemalan paired with a natural Ethiopian. The blend will rotate through the year because the farm changes with the harvest.

Southern highlands, Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Coffee is native to Ethiopia, and most of it is still grown the old way: a few hundred trees under shade on a plot of a hectare or two, picked by the family and carried to the nearest washing station. A natural lot is dried whole, fruit and all, on raised beds for weeks, and that is where the berry and the floral notes come from.

The details

Elevation1,800–2,200 m

Coffee grown high ripens slowly in cool air, which concentrates sugar and acidity. This will tell you a lot about how a cup will taste.

VarietyEthiopian heirloom

Coffee plants vary, which is why we can get different tastes from different types of coffee. It's like how a wine names its grape. Bourbon and Typica lean sweet and classic; Gesha is floral and rare; Castillo and Catimor beans were planted to survive leaf rust so a farm can keep producing in even the harshest of weather.

ProcessNatural

This is how the fruit was removed from the seed after picking. Washed is clean and bright, and natural is dried whole and tastes of fruit and ferment. This choice changes the cup more than almost anything else.

RoastDark

We roast to the point where the coffee is sweetest rather than to a fixed color, so a light roast here may be darker than a light roast somewhere else.

Best forDrip, thermoses and refills

What we built the roast around. Any coffee can be brewed any way, but this is where we think this one is happiest, and it is how we dialed it in on the bar.

Why we buy it

It's the fruit you taste first in Holy Roller, and the brightness that keeps Midnight Rider and Halfway to Heaven from tasting a little flat. 

The farm

A naturally processed heirloom coffee from Ethiopia's southern highlands, bought green through Bellwether. The lot rotates with the harvest.

How we brew it.

Made for the drip brewer and the thermos. It's forgiving, so the pour over and French press recipes work as written.

Pour over

Kalita Wave 185

Coffee
25 g
Water
400 g
Temperature
204°F
Grind
Medium, 600 µm
Ratio
1:16
Bloom
60 g, 45 seconds
Total time
3:30

Pour in four even additions. If the bed drains early, grind finer.

Espresso

La Marzocco Linea, 20 g basket

Dose
19 g
Yield
42 g
Time
28 seconds
Temperature
200°F
Pressure
9 bar
Ratio
1:2.2

Pulled on the bar every day. Shorten the yield a gram or two for milk drinks.

French press

Bodum, 8 cup

Coffee
60 g
Water
900 g
Temperature
200°F
Grind
Coarse
Steep
4:00
Rest after plunge
1:00

Break the crust at four minutes, skim, then wait a minute before you plunge.

Coffee maker

Any drip machine, flat filter

Coffee
60 g
Water
1,000 g (1 litre)
Ratio
1:17
Grind
Medium, like coarse sand
Filter
Paper, rinsed
Brew time
5 to 6 minutes

Fill the basket evenly and level it. If it tastes thin, add a few grams of coffee before you grind finer.

The batch in your bag

Roast log

This batch

Roast date
September 28, 2026
Batch
#702
Profile
Dark
Charge temp
394°F
Turning point
190°F at 0:33
Drop temp
437°F
Roast time
11:00
Machine
Bellwether Shop Roaster
140°220°300°380°460°Drop 437° 0:00 10:58
BeanDrumBellwether Shop Roaster

What you're looking at

Every bag we sell comes from a batch we roasted ourselves. This is that batch's record, straight from the roaster.

  • Roast date and batch: when it was roasted, and which batch of the year it was.
  • Origin and profile: the green coffee that went in, and how dark we took it.
  • Charge temp: how hot the drum was when the beans went in.
  • Turning point: cool beans pull the temperature down at first. This is the low point, right before they start climbing.
  • Drop temp: how hot the beans were when we let them out. Hotter means darker.
  • Roast time: start to finish.
  • The chart: the red line is the beans warming up, the dotted line is the drum around them, and time runs left to right.

Darker roasts run longer and drop hotter. Lighter ones come out sooner and keep more of the fruit.

Financial transparency

These are the numbers behind this bag: what the coffee cost us, what it costs to get it on the shelf, and where your money goes.

Green cost $6.25per lb, paid to the farmer

Every bag starts as green coffee. It's sourced and brought to Oregon. This is the farms price to us per pound, before we roast it. Roasting burns off about 16% of the weight, so a 12 oz bag starts as 0.89 lb of green.

Our cost $8.93per 12 oz bag, all in

The green coffee for the bag, roasting labor and electricity ($1.20), the bag, valve and label ($0.55), handling ($0.45) and the breakfast program ($1.17). Before rent, the roaster loan, insurance or anyone's pay.

Feeds people $1.17per bag, to the SNAP Breakfast Fund

In honor of one of our donations, we give $1.17 towards the SNAP Breakfast. Two bags put a hot breakfast and a coffee in someone's hands.

On the shelf $21.00what you pay

What we sell the bag for, and what is left after the bag's own costs.

The rest of the family.

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