Description
Dumpster Cat is the roast that we use in all of our coffee and espresso drinks, created in 2025!
Eddie and Mandy personally roast using an air roaster located at 28833 Euclid Ave in Willoughby, Ohio.
Air roasting (aka fluid bed roasting) creates a more vibrant, bright, and less bitter roast than traditional drum roasting. You can also typically enjoy better flavor clarity, as there is less damage to the bean and extraneous notes from the drum added during the process. Check out some videos online or follow our social media, it’s a super cool process!
We typically start with a Nicaraguan beans from Jinotega, Nicaragua. We usually stock from La Bastilla Coffee Estates, which is Rainforest Alliance Certified, meeting strict standards for environmental sustainability and human rights. If that’s out of stock, we will look for other farms with similar certifications/commitment to ethical practices.
We aim for the very light end of a medium roast, which we think creates the perfect balance between still being able to enjoy the subtler tasting notes of chocolate, nuttiness, dried fruit, and green apple, while rounding it out for “everyday” drinkability and flexibility in a wide variety of drinks from cold brew, to an everyday cup of joe, to a hot honey and oat latte, to our namesake affogato!
We named it “Dumpster Cat” because our coffee supports the 16-20 rescues that we foster, most of whom are usually “less adoptable” cats from the streets, humane cases, or other tough situations. Despite their sometimes rough appearances and backgrounds, people bond with these cats in our cozy environment and unexpectedly fall in love! Similarly, for some reason people are always pleasantly surprised that a cat cafe has such good coffee. Moral of the story: the best things come from unexpected places!
