Best Independent Coffee Roasters in Grand Rapids, Michigan (2026)
Grand Rapids' roasters include a company roasting coffee and nuts in Michigan since 1924, a Diedrich in a Godfrey Avenue roastery that is also a record store, a Stevens Street roastery whose logo went to Starbucks Reserve, and a roaster working from a commercial kitchen in the Downtown Market. Stated founding years run from 1924 to 2019.
We've mapped the active independent coffee roasters listed under Grand Rapids as of September 2026. Every fact below comes from the roaster's own website, with at most one press source per roaster cited inline. Where a site does not state something (a founding year, a roasting machine, a street address), this guide does not state it either. Three listed businesses are left out: a cafe whose site does not state that it roasts, a coffee brand whose site names no location or roaster of its own, and a cafe whose site names a parent coffee company. The orbit section covers roasters within about 25 kilometers that Roast Local lists under Grandville, Rockford, Hudsonville, or Wyoming.
Roasting inside the city
Rowster Coffee
Rowster Coffee has hand roasted specialty coffee since 2005, per its site, beginning as a one-person operation in the back of a local gallery. It roasts Monday through Friday at 100 Stevens Street SW in a 20 pound American-made steel drum roaster, and its Wealthy Street cafe at 632 Wealthy Street SE opened in East Town in 2010. The name is a mashup of roasting and rowing, and the company's blog records the sale of its logo to Starbucks for the Reserve line. Rowster sells at the cafe, online with subscriptions, wholesale to cafes, restaurants, and grocers with custom labels, and through fundraising and roastery tours.
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Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters
Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters was established in 2007, per its site, with a new 5 kilo shop roaster, and now roasts on a Diedrich IR-12 at 1111 Godfrey Avenue SW at the foot of the Black Hills neighborhood. It describes itself as a wholesale coffee roaster and a record store, not a coffee shop, roasting each order by hand. Coffees carry their certifications by name: Fair Trade Organic co-op lots from Guatemala Huehuetenango, Sumatra Takengon, and Nicaragua Nueva Segovia, a Rainforest Alliance Brazil Daterra, and a shade-grown Grand Rapids City Blend. Since 2008 it has held the Saturday Experience, a weekly open-house tasting, and online orders placed by midnight Tuesday are ready for Friday or Saturday pickup or shipping.
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Roots Coffee Company
Roots Coffee Company was founded by Andrew Crawley in 2019 out of Roots Brew Shop, per its site, and shares that cafe's building at 600 7th Street NW on the West Side. It roasts and sells coffee in the Grand Rapids area, with a Mexico Chiapas and a Guatemala Santa Rosa on the site, and sells online with subscriptions and wholesale to offices, coffee shops, and restaurants.
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Ferris Coffee and Nut Co.
Ferris Coffee and Nut was established in 1924, per its history page, and has roasted coffee and made snacks in Michigan since then; Sprudge places it in Grand Rapids since 1924. Coffee orders are roasted to order, a Q-grader is on staff, and the catalog runs light, medium, and dark collections, single origins, blends, nitro cans, and decaf, including a Women in Coffee collection. Ferris runs a coffee shop and espresso bar with a retail store, a mobile barista cart, and a wholesale business that roasts for big-box stores and neighborhood shops; its products are in all 50 states, and it is the official coffee of the Detroit Lions with a Den Blend dark roast. The site gives no street address.
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Morningsong Coffee Roasters
Morningsong Coffee Roasters sources coffee from around the world and roasts it in Grand Rapids, per its contact page, fresh to order on Mondays and Wednesdays. The site describes a light-roast approach with no exterior oils even on its darkest coffees; named mainstay blends are Cloudbreak (espresso), Wakerobin (medium), Americana, Stargaze (decaf), Aurora, and Larkspur (light), with single origins from Ethiopia, Guatemala, and Kenya. Morningsong sells online within the US, by subscription, and wholesale with same-day packaging; the site gives no street address and lists no cafe.
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24K Gold Coffee
24K Gold Coffee roasts to order in a commercial kitchen in the Downtown Grand Rapids Market, per its site, to a medium or medium-dark level, and tops each bag with a sprinkle of edible 24 karat gold. Its signature three-country blend is La Taza Oro, with single origins from Guatemala Huehuetenango and Colombia and a Swiss Water decaf. It sells online, by subscription, and in pods, with free delivery in Grand Rapids and free shipping above a threshold.
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Cafes in the city, roasteries outside it
Stovetop Coffee Roasters
Stovetop Coffee Roasters runs its Grand Rapids cafe at 944 Fulton Street East, which opened in 2019, and roasts at its Roastery Cafe at 180 East 40th Street in Holland, where the company was founded about 2015 and replaced a 12 kilo Diedrich IR12 with a 20 kilo Mill City machine (per Daily Coffee News). Named blends are Wildflower, Espresso, Catnap, Company, and Neighborhood, with single origins including a Rwanda Kungahara natural and an Ethiopia Worka Chelbessa. Stovetop sells at three cafes, online with a subscription club, wholesale, and in flash-chilled cans and steeped coffee bags.
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Jam'nBean
Jam'nBean has roasted since 2009, per its About page, and runs a cafe with ice cream at 6860 Cascade Road SE, which carries a Grand Rapids mailing address in Cascade Township, with its roastery at 590 Ada Drive SE in Ada. The site describes small-batch roasting with a focus on high-altitude, low-acid coffee, and sells at two retail locations, online with free shipping above a threshold, in K-Cups, by subscription, wholesale, and through catering. It also sells Michigan maple syrup.
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The Grand Rapids orbit: Grandville, Rockford, Hudsonville, Wyoming
Littlefoot Coffee (Grandville)
Littlefoot Coffee got its start in 2017, per its site, and runs a roastery-first space with a small drinks bar at 3049 Broadway Avenue SW in Grandville, selling wholesale to cafes, bakeries, grocers, and boutiques.
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Quickwater Coffee Roasters (Rockford)
Quickwater Coffee Roasters describes itself as the specialty coffee roaster of Rockford, at 8 East Bridge Street NE, and runs four cafes, one of them inside Grand Rapids at 220 Quimby Street NE in Creston, with others in Cedar Springs and Belmont.
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Quadrum Coffee (Hudsonville)
Quadrum Coffee roasts every small batch on site on a drum roaster at 5234 36th Avenue in Hudsonville, per its site, which dates the business to the pandemic.
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Runyon House Roasts (Wyoming)
Runyon House Roasts sells air-roasted beans at Bliss Bakery and the Fulton Street Farmers Market, per its site, along with subscriptions and a mobile trailer. The site gives no street address.
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What makes Grand Rapids' roasting scene distinctive
Two roasteries share space with something else. Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters is also a record store on Godfrey Avenue, and Roots Coffee Company shares its 7th Street NW building with Roots Brew Shop. 24K Gold roasts in a shared commercial kitchen at the Downtown Market.
Roasting days and machines are on the sites. Rowster roasts Monday through Friday on a 20 pound steel drum roaster, Morningsong on Mondays and Wednesdays, and Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters on a Diedrich IR-12 with a Saturday open house since 2008.
Two of the listed roasters roast outside the city. Stovetop roasts in Holland and runs a Fulton Street cafe; Jam'nBean roasts in Ada with a cafe in Cascade Township. Quickwater, listed under Rockford, runs a cafe inside the city in Creston.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many independent coffee roasters are in Grand Rapids?
Roast Local lists 11 active independent coffee roasters under Grand Rapids. This guide names the eight whose own sites state that they roast and where they sell: Rowster, Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters, Roots, Ferris, Morningsong, 24K Gold, Stovetop, and Jam'nBean. Littlefoot, Quickwater, Quadrum, and Runyon House are covered in the orbit section.
What is Grand Rapids' oldest coffee roaster?
By stated founding year, Ferris Coffee and Nut, which its history page dates to 1924. Rowster has roasted since 2005 and Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters was established in 2007.
Which Grand Rapids coffee roasters ship?
Ferris ships UPS Ground and states its products are in all 50 states. Rowster, Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters, Roots, Morningsong, 24K Gold, Stovetop, and Jam'nBean all run online shops, and most offer subscriptions; Morningsong ships within the US only.
Where in Grand Rapids are the roasters?
Rowster roasts at 100 Stevens Street SW with a cafe at 632 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters is at 1111 Godfrey Avenue SW, Roots at 600 7th Street NW, 24K Gold in the Downtown Market, and Stovetop's cafe at 944 Fulton Street East. Ferris and Morningsong give no street address on their sites.
Last updated: September 2026