About
We roast in Morro Bay, California, in a remodeled bank on the main street, with the roaster behind glass in full view of the cafe.
Our story
We rolled up the doors on HoneyCo in January of 2015, less than a year after opening the first Scout Coffee in downtown San Luis Obispo. In the time since, the roasting program has grown well beyond our own town on the Central Coast, and we now fill orders across the United States.
The goal has not changed. We want to make genuinely good coffee accessible, with a range wide enough that almost anyone finds theirs, from light and bright single origins through to the balanced, chocolatey blends and espressos people come back for year after year.
We believe in doing things the right way, every time, and we think you will like it around here.
The top one percent
We build seasonal, rotating menus from only the top one percent of fresh crop coffee, bought through direct relationships with producers wherever we can.
We pay well above Fair Trade prices, every time, and we buy the best quality available rather than the best quality at a number.
The same, every batch
Every coffee is roasted on a Loring Kestrel 35 Kilo and logged as it runs, so a profile we develop once can be reproduced batch after batch.
Read how we roast, from green coffee through to the cooling tray.
“Scientifically perfect.”
Alton Brown, on the coffee at Scout
Come and see it
The roaster runs in full view of the cafe in Morro Bay, and the bakery works out of the same building. If you are on the Central Coast, come and stand on the right side of the glass.