Sweetwater Organic Coffee Roasters
Thank you for your interest in Sweetwater Organic Coffee Company (Sweetwater), Gainesville, Florida’s sustainable coffee roaster, serving wholesale customers throughout the state and beyond!
We roast all of our coffee to-order in micro-batches to ensure that our customers always receive coffee that is consistently fresh, aromatic, and delicious. All of our coffees are certified USDA Organic, high altitude, shade grown, specialty-grade Arabica. And, all but two of our coffees are Fair Trade or Rainforest Alliance certified*. We also offer Smithsonian Bird Friendly coffees.
Sweetwater is a member of Cooperative Coffees, the world’s only Fair Trade, organic green coffee purchasing collective, which is based in Americus, Georgia. Together with 23 other roasters from the frosty Yukon down to sunny Gainesville, Sweetwater works directly with small-scale coffee farmer cooperatives to bring some of the world’s best, fairly traded coffee available to coffee-loving consumers here in the United States and Canada. Sweetwater’s Rainforest Alliance certified coffees come from some of the world’s most ethical estates whose land-use and business practices conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods. Sweetwater is committed to delivering the message of sustainability by roasting truly extraordinary coffee that does justice to our hard-working trading partners and Mother Nature… from crop to cup.
Our coffee offering includes a broad variety of single origin coffees, blended coffees, espressos, and natural water process decaffeinated coffees, roasted-to-order using the following styles:
Light Roast (Light )
A lighter, more flavorful roast characterized by light to medium smooth body, high, clean acidity, and bright flavor. The bean will be dry and brown with no surface oil.
Full City Roast (Medium)
This roast is a medium brown. The bean may be dry or have faint patches of oil on the surface. Rich and flavorful, this roast retains the bright flavor and smoothness of our lighter roast and gains the body and sweetness of darker roasts.
Viennese Roast (Medium Dark)
A medium dark roast. These roasts have the richness of French Roast without the carbon-smoky flavor. The bean will be dark reddish brown and only slightly oily.
French Roast (Dark)
Our darkest roast. These coffees have a very bold and rich, caramel-smoky and syrupy flavor. The bean will be dark brown with a shiny surface. Caramelized, not carbonized!
For more information about our coffees and wholesale program please call us at (352) 372-8342 or email us at coffee@sweetwaterorganiccoffee.com. We look forward to working with you!
*We are presently assessing these two coffees to determine if their sustainability practices fit our model, though they are organic, shade grown and ethically traded.