About Loveless

Loveless Staff posing outside the cafe

Welcome to Loveless Coffees. We're a small team of coffee professionals from Brooklyn passionate about curating complex coffees that exhibit well-structured and singular flavor profiles. We roast in a style we call New York-Nordic that is influenced by our training in Norway and our barista careers in New York. The style falls somewhere around light-medium, but with pronounced clarity, sweetness, and structure. Please send us an email to hello@lovelesscoffees.coffee, or visit us in person at our roastery-cafe located at 86 Central Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11206.





On Certifications

You won't always find certifications on the coffees we roast. Certifications tend to favor large scale industrial farms that can afford to pay the up front costs associated with receiving one of the many certifications available. We work primarily with independent and small scale farmers - sometimes with as few as 10 coffee trees. These producers operate de-facto organic, rainforest alliance, etc, but cannot use the official title when selling their coffee. Instead, we work with direct-trading producers or importers that we know who are on the ground year-round creating relationships and helping producers to achieve higher prices for their harvests.


On Climate & Pricing

We're passionate about helping protect the ecosystems of our growing partners by paying fair prices that allow for internal reinvestment in sustainability. Coffee grows in very particular conditions, requiring high elevation, cool temperatures, and regular rainfall; in other words, environments highly susceptible to climate change. Coffee producers in changing environments are acutely aware of this fragility, enduring hurricanes and unpredictable rainfall with regularity. 

What we're doing to contribute:

  • Our boxes are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC.) They are made with 100% renewable materials, over 50% recycled materials, and are 100% compostable.
  • We've reduced the plastic components of our packaging as much as possible without compromising freshness.
  • We roast on a Loring Falcon, which is 30% more gas efficient than standard roasters.  

Transparency

We like to publish the import prices of our coffees because it puts a little bit of pressure on the industry to ensure producers are getting a worthwhile price for their exceptional work. When it's available to us, we'll also publish the price the producer was paid per pound sold. You can find this information on each of our coffee's individual page in our shop.

Why The Name?

When we were baristas learning about coffee and finding our place in New York, we spent a lot of time listening to the My Bloody Valentine album Loveless. It felt right and sounded good; we love what we're doing, and we weren't afraid of being mistaken for being truly "loveless." 

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