Nate’s Coffee is dedicated to providing the best quality coffee available.
With the ongoing supply chain issues, we need to increase the price of our whole bean and ground coffees. This will ensure that we can maintain the excellence you expect from Nate’s Coffee. As the prices of arabica beans increase, we will continue to source the best coffees for our customers.
Even with this price increase, we think you’ll find that Nate’s Coffee is still one of the most affordable locally roasted coffees
Starting at the beginning of November, our one pound coffee prices will go up. Even with this price increase, we think you’ll find that Nate’s Coffee is still one of the most affordable locally roasted coffees, less than $1 per ounce for our core roasts.
FAQs
What does this mean for my subscription?
Your price won’t go up!
If you have a recurring subscription from Nate’s Coffee, you will maintain the price you started as long as the subscription is ongoing!
How can you say you are more affordable than other coffees when your price is $15 per bag and [other roaster’s] are less?
You are getting more coffee from Nate’s.
Our retail bags are a full pound, 16 ounces, versus the industry standard of 12 ounce bags. Dollar for dollar, ounce for ounce, our (incredibly smooth) coffee is still more affordable for you!
How have you been affected by supply chain issues?
Coffee is one of many crops that isn’t grown commercially in the continental USA, so 100% of our product is delivered via container ships. Not only is the shipping industry slowed down by longer port and customs times, but there is a shortage of shipping containers themselves. Here is a decent article on the issue: https://investmentmonitor.ai/analysis/covid-global-shipping-container-shortage
Domestic shipping is also increasing in price time. There is a driver shortage, meaning that the green coffee we need to roast is more expensive to ship and may take twice as long to get here.
On top of everything else, Brazil had a bad harvest. As the top coffee exporter, that puts a squeeze on the rest of the supply:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/coffee-prices-soar-after-bad-harvests-and-insatiable-demand-11626093703
Is this why Murph is sometimes on backorder?
Yes! El Salvador is one of the coffee origin countries with a limited supply coming out! As one of the two coffees in the Murph blend, we need to occasionally limit or discontinue it until we can source more. Outlook is good starting in March 2022, but until then, may we recommend the Kenya or the Yergacheffe?
