OUR "OUR STORY" STORY

I was/will be an infosec security engineer in the day time, but I have been roasting coffee in my home for at least a decade now. I started because a friend told me how easy it was, and I believed him, and then it turned out he was right. Once I started roasting coffee at home, I was impressed with how different an experience it was to anything else I'd tried. And so I tried to experience as many different kinds of coffee with my palette as I could. Every time it came to order more, I ordered coffee from a place I had never tried before, and roasted it to several different levels until I ran out. I bought and tried all manner of coffee brewing devices and would frequently pick 2 to brew simultaneously and side-by-side compare the, cups alongside my lovely life/crime/business partner, at which point she also became obsessed with coffee.

We would also host many game nights, and my favorite part of the night was the coffee break. Many friends, though they may well have been humoring me, claimed that they otherwise would not drink coffee but that they would drink our coffee. Most friends would say they usually put cream and sugar in coffee but would take ours black to enjoy the flavors.

About a decade of hosting and gaming went by, and then a pandemic happened, and we really started to miss being able to bring my friends around my table for a game of Cosmic Encounter or Cockroach Poker, or my brother for a game of Magic.

After a particularly sour experience in the professional contracting world, I decided I needed something to do that didn't involve having my fate in someone else's hands, and so I sought to build a company. I thought about what my favorite things were, and the short list was comprised of coffee, pot (I grow as well as consume), and games. I thought about what things people I knew typically associate me with, and the short list was comprised of coffee, pot, and games. And lo, CoffeePotGames was borne.

That was a mouthful, would be difficult to fit on labels, and didn't lend itself to any particular sort of iconography, and so after iterating on the concept of sugar cubes as dice (Sugardice) a coffee label was created.

We bought a San Franciscan Roaster Company SF-6, learned to roast at scale, and so now we present to you the products of our labors; May our labors please.