Our Mission & Passion
Maker Coffee launched through the Cageless Birds Collective in 2015, and is the tangible fruit of a community pioneering together. We are committed to source excellent, specialty-grade coffee and pursue long-term direct trade partnerships with coffee farms worldwide. We have a high value for supporting the farmers who labor to produce the best possible fruit. We seek to bless families through transparent relationships with the farms we source from, importers, and the everyday coffee drinker.
We believe that coffee is more than just a flavor or a product. It is the slow part in our day—a place for communion and friendship. At Maker Coffee, our passion is to bridge the gap between coffee at its origin and the daily cup. Through careful attention to detail and a heart to honor those on each side of the exchange, we work to source sustainably and roast excellent coffees.
Maker Coffee is roasted fresh weekly and rotated seasonally. All of the profits from Maker Coffee support our 18 Inch Journey discipleship schools, camps, and retreats hosted by the Cageless Birds Collective.
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Our Roasting Team
Chris Miller, Jono MacSorley, and Trevor Ludlow are our Maker Coffee team. Through weekly roasting and direct-to-mailbox delivery of hand-picked coffee from all over the world, we care about the details and are passionate above giving people the best coffee experience possible. Our roasters love the signature of specialty-grade coffee and work towards long-term relationships with our direct trade partners and importers who are improving the coffee industry.
As a ministry, our goal is to sow into family, ensuring excellence and relationship in the green coffee we buy, long before it enters the hopper of our Diedrich roaster. Each week, we carefully package and ship our coffee out to customers and subscribers around the world.
Coffee Subscriptions
When you sign up for our Maker Coffee subscription service, you get free shipping, and the benefit of choosing how often and how much coffee you’d like to receive and fresh at your front door. Click below to learn more! All coffee subscriptions support the mission of the Cageless Birds and our dream of discipling the next generation.
Wholesale Coffee
We love getting to partner with cafes, stores, and churches around the country by serving mission-driven coffee that speaks for itself. Click below to learn more about wholesale options and pricing for Maker Coffee.
Sourcing
We only buy single-origin coffee from farms and co-operatives that we can trace all the way back to the source.
We order specialty-grade coffee, which means that our coffee was grown in an optimal climate for natural coffee growth, that the beans have few or no defects, and that the beans are uniform in shape and size. It also means they score 80+ (out of 100) on the SCAA grading scale.
We source our coffee from all over the world: Colombia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Peru, and more! Coffees have different characteristics and personalities based on the region they’re from. We always offer a variety of roast profiles, from fruity and fragrant light roasts, chocolatey and satisfying medium roasts, and syrupy dark roasts that are full of heart.
When coffee beans are grown and processed well, shipped carefully and roasted with attention to the intrinsic flavors of the bean, it’s a reverent celebration of the nuances coffee can offer. It is a window into the soil, people and culture that give this fruit its quality and unique personality.
