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Torque Coffee

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San Diego, California

Est. 2022

Light Roast

About

Award-Winning Coffee Where Farmers Keep 20% of The Price. Beautiful coffees, from sweet and classic to bright and expressive, roasted with radical transparency.

Our Story

Coffee That's Easy To Love & Shares The Love. We’re a bunch of misfits, malcontents and magic makers on a mission to make coffee that’s easy to love and shares the love. To show that amazing coffees, sourced with intention and focus, roasted exquisitely and blended culinarily, can achieve immense sweetness, clarity of terroir and expressive complexity, while ensuring the craft of all the coffee producer’s shines brightly. We are fighting to remake the global supply chain in equilibrium by giving each coffee producing origin a minimum 20% equity share in the full retail value of every coffee we sell. Beautiful coffee from some of the best coffee producers anywhere, who get an equitable 20% share of every coffee’s retail price. Delivered in sustainable, biodegradable, recyclable and compostable packaging. IT’S WONDERFUL, RADICAL, EQUITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE. IT’S WHAT COFFEE SHOULD BE.

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Coffees

Balboa Cauca - Auction Lot, Colombia
LightColombia

Balboa Cauca - Auction Lot, Colombia

From $22.60

Balboa, Cauca

Washed process

BalancedSweetCitrus

A washed community microlot from Balboa, Cauca, pooled by neighboring smallholders to win Colombia Subasta por la Paz auction. Clean, balanced and sweet.

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Cocoa Drop
Medium

Cocoa Drop

From $18.90
Milk ChocolateRed AppleCacaoMaple

The welcoming heart of the Torque lineup and a versatile espresso blend. Milk chocolate, red apple, cacao and maple.

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Dark Drop
Dark

Dark Drop

From $21.50
Dark ChocolateCherryBerryFudge

A gold-medal deep-and-complex dark blend. Dark chocolate and dark-berry fruit with a glorious, syrupy mouthfeel.

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Decaf Drop
Medium

Decaf Drop

From $20.40

Swiss Water Decaf process

CocoaCherryOrangeHoneysuckle

A dessert-like decaf blend that drinks like joy in a cup. Sweet cocoa, cherry-vanilla and orange, fully caffeine-free.

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Demi Drop - Half Caffeine Blend
Medium

Demi Drop - Half Caffeine Blend

From $23.10
AppleStone FruitCocoaCitrus

A half-caffeine blend with full flavor and half the buzz. Sweet apple and stone fruit with gentle chocolate and citrus.

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Gum Drop
Light

Gum Drop

From $20.10
ApricotMelonCherryPapaya

A bright-and-fruity blend bursting with apricot, honeydew melon, cherry and papaya. Playful, juicy and boldly not about chocolate.

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Honey Drop
Medium

Honey Drop

From $19.35
HoneyCaramelStone FruitApple

The Torque flagship crisp-and-clean blend. Honeyed caramel sweetness layered with stone fruit and crisp Fuji apple.

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Jorge Zuniga - Auction Winner, Colombia
LightColombia

Jorge Zuniga - Auction Winner, Colombia

From $40.00

Bolivar, Cauca

Washed process

FloralHoneyBright Citrus

A hand-selected, auction-winning microlot from Finca Vista Hermosa in Bolivar, Cauca, grown at 1,850m. Floral, honeyed and vividly clean.

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Lulada - Jhoan Vergara, Colombia
LightColombia

Lulada - Jhoan Vergara, Colombia

From $17.20

Penas Blancas

Double Anaerobic process

Tropical FruitBerryWiney

A double-anaerobic Colombian lot from the celebrated Jhoan Vergara and Nestor Lasso team at Penas Blancas. Wildly fruit-forward, tropical and winey.

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Malacara Rojo - Dumont-Alvarez Family, El Salvador
MediumEl Salvador

Malacara Rojo - Dumont-Alvarez Family, El Salvador

From $17.30

Santa Ana, Apaneca-Ilamatepec

Red Honey process

Red FruitCocoaBrown Sugar

A honey-processed sister lot from the Malacara estate on the Santa Ana volcano. Red fruit sweetness with cocoa and brown sugar.

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Malacara Seca - Dumont-Alvarez Family, El Salvador
MediumEl Salvador

Malacara Seca - Dumont-Alvarez Family, El Salvador

From $17.30

Santa Ana, Apaneca-Ilamatepec

Natural process

Stone FruitChocolateCaramel

A natural-process lot from the Malacara estate on the Santa Ana volcano, farmed by the Dumont-Alvarez family. Jammy stone fruit over chocolate and caramel.

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Nayarit Natural - El Cuarenteno, Mexico
MediumMexico

Nayarit Natural - El Cuarenteno, Mexico

From $18.30

Nayarit, Sierra de San Juan

Natural process

Stone FruitChocolateSweet

A shade-grown natural from the El Cuarenteno ejido in Nayarit. Stone fruit and chocolate with easy sweetness.

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Location

3459 El Cajon Blvd, San Diego, CA 92104, USA

Hours

monday7-2
tuesday7-2
wednesday7-2
thursday7-2
friday7-4
saturday8-4
sunday8-4

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