Zeke’s Coffee is a Baltimore-based, small-batch, family-owned coffee roastery that is seriously committed to freshness. Grim Wizard Coffee owners have a long-standing relationship with this family of coffee experts and it was a no-brainer in choosing a roaster for our alchemy.
Zeke's uses a fluid bed coffee roaster. Invented by Mike Sivetz, a physicist from Oregon in the 1970s, fluid bed coffee roasters use hot air to create a fountain of coffee beans.

This technique roasts more quickly and uniformly than a conventional drum roaster. Zeke's roasts to temperature, giving a more consistent product. Chaff escapes the roast chamber easily, leading to cleaner-tasting coffee with more distinct regional flavors.

Zeke's roasts in small batches, guaranteeing freshness. Their roaster holds 30 pounds of coffee, compared to the 150 pounds that a standard roaster holds. Because of this, they put more time, more labor, and a little more of themselves into each bean. You can taste the difference.