About us... Cobblestone Coffee is a Micro Coffee Roastery, founded in Maryland, near the Chesapeake Bay. We source and roast only the finest Specialty grade, premium quality Arabica coffees from all over the world, and ship them fresh to you straight out of the roaster, preserving freshness and quality in every step of the process. Our mission, quite simply, is quality in your cup. Our passion is not only sharing quality coffees with our customers, but also teaching our customers about coffee, how it came from the farm to your cup, and the differences between fresh and stale coffee. 90% of the coffee available out there today is stale or quickly becoming, and the kicker is that most coffee drinkers don't realize this! I once was a stale coffee drinker, I never really knew that coffee could taste any better than the stuff that came out of the office coffee pot, or the convenience store or the gas station down the street, until I discovered the difference that fresh roasting makes. I have never turned back, and as a matter of fact, it was because of this amazing difference that Cobblestone Coffee was born. We are always searching, always seeking the best of the best of the Specialty grade coffees, and only those that meet or exceed our strict palette and quality standards will we make available to you, and use in our coffee outlets in the future. Sourcing quality coffee is not as easy as you might think, it's a consistently moving target. In order to hit the bullseye, you have to continually sample, sample, sample, or as we call it, cupping. Regarding the so called "Specialty Coffee" corporate giants out there, quite frankly, we wouldn't be here if it weren't for them. Is their coffee good? That's for you to decide. The difference from my perspective is the same as the difference between the mass produced beers in this country, versus a hand crafted, passionately mastered micro brewed beer. Cobblestone Coffee is a 'Micro Roastery', meaning we roast our own coffee in our facility, and roast in very small batches by hand, closely working with each batch as it roasts to perfection. Hand crafting the roast maintains the human interaction with the coffee during each batch, whereas the corporate chains mass produce their coffees by automation, or minimal interaction at best. For example, a part-time employee of 'Corporate' pushes a button on a huge machine somewhere, and it goes to work baking tons of coffee using the law of averages and preset lengths of time and temperature. That employee waits for the machine to 'ding' at the end of its cycle, and out comes the coffee. It's an automated process which completely removes the art of hand craftsmanship of the coffee. Contrast that with Cobblestone's Roaster, whom is the OWNER of the business, who follows a passion for coffee, and skillfully perfects each batch by hand on a small batch roaster. Second to that, we are local. We are a family owned and operated business, and will always remain that way to preserve and maintain our highest quality, neighbor to neighbor style of customer service and friendliness, our passion for quality products, and our commitment and loyalty to our customers and surrounding communities. The corporate chains can't compete with all of this. Besides, everyone likes to support the home team, right? Most important though, is our devotion and dedication to quality. Quality is paramount to Cobblestone Coffee; it's our passion, it's our mission. We will only serve the highest quality, super premium coffees to our customers. Only the coffees that meet or exceed our strict, STRICT quality standards will be served to our customers. While the chains will focus on sacrificing whatever it takes to preserve their bottom lines, WE focus on serving quality coffee, FRESH. By the way, how long ago did those guys roast their coffee and have it sitting around waiting to be trucked all over the country, only to have it sit again while it waits to be served in their stores? ...and they call that fresh roasted??