Waypost Coffee Roasters

Waypost's founder is a software consultant who spent years travelling for work and used the early hours before work to seek out local roasters in city after city. Coming home to Long Island, he felt that coffee culture was missing, and Waypost is his attempt to bring locally roasted, carefully sourced coffee back home. Every batch is roasted in small amounts at Multimodal Roasting, a shared roasting space in Long Island City, Queens, then quality checked and hand packed. The process starts with tasting coffees from all over the world and buying through importers with direct relationships with small farmers, so growers are paid sustainable, fair amounts. The lineup includes Avalon Morning, the first blend, named for Avalon Park and Preserve in Head of the Harbor, and a rotating single origin, currently a Kenyan peaberry, along with a coffee of the month subscription and a bourbon-finished canned cold brew. Waypost also donates to community programs for underprivileged youth.