What Pure Intentions Coffee is known for
Charlotte's Pure Intentions has roasted single-origin coffee since 2011, sourcing named farms like Peru's Finca Churupampa and Mexico's Café La Laja. It supplies cafés, restaurants and grocers across the Southeast alongside its own pour-over bars.
Pure Intentions Coffee has roasted in Charlotte since 2011, built around relationships with named farms rather than anonymous lots: Finca Churupampa in Peru, Café La Laja in the Huatusco highlands of Veracruz, Mexico, and direct-trade partners across Colombia, Ethiopia and Brazil. The roastery frames itself as 'one part of a long chain that starts with the coffee farmer and ends with your cup,' and its organic and fair-trade emphasis extends past the farm gate into how the beans get roasted -- light, medium and dark profiles run across both single-origin lots and house blends, rather than one house style applied to everything. Beyond its own Charlotte cafés pouring pour-overs and espresso, Pure Intentions supplies its roasts wholesale to other cafés, restaurants and groceries across the Southeast, and runs a beverage-program service on the side -- consulting, staff training and equipment support for businesses building a coffee program from scratch. It's a roaster that sells expertise alongside beans: the same operation sourcing a Peruvian single farm's harvest also trains baristas on how to pull it correctly, a wider remit than most regional roasters take on.
Best for — Direct-trade single-origin coffee from named farms
Charlotte, NC
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