We're happy to report that Coffee Review has featured another of our coffees in their April-May Tasting Report, "Get Your Coffee Kicks on Route 66: 10 of the best coffee roasters along America’s most famous highway."

A few weeks ago, when they were soliciting samples from roasters in the area, I sent in our Roadrunner Blend because I thought, "If they like it, it's got the best name for the article." 

They gave it 93 points. Read the full review here. 

This blend was actually my mom's very first blend, dating from the early 90s when she owned her own café in Rio Rancho (the Red Rock Cafe). Her logic was that Sumatra (those very tobacco-y and earthy Mandhelings that you used to get in those days) was needed to add body and complexity to an all-Central blend she was serving as drip coffee. She named it Fog City Blend, after San Francisco, whence we came.

I renamed it Roadrunner Blend about 15 years ago, because at that time my job was packing orders and I noticed a lot of people in Santa Fe and Old Town Albuquerque were selling it in retail bags and thought it might move better with the new name.

Roadrunner Blend is actually what I drink at home most of the time. It's just incredibly sweet, plays well with milk, and tolerates a lot of abuse re: brewing.

Plus...I really love our state bird. If you follow us on Instagram you may be aware that ours is an urban nature account at least 20% of the time. The roadrunner population in Albuquerque has exploded in recent years. I used to never see them in my neighborhood but now I pass 2-3 every morning on my way to work. 

Get your Roadrunner Blend beans here if you need a restock.


Here is my mother Nancy in 1993, third from left, around the time that genius struck. I am the smallest, grumpiest person in the picture. 

The Red Rock Cafe, mid-1990s. Why, in those days you could get a pound of coffee, a hamburger, a shoe-shine, and a ticket for the streetcar for ten dollars and still have enough left over for a matinee at the nickelodeon.