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  • Roasted in Fountain Valley, CA
  • Rested, then shipped
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  • Roasted in Fountain Valley, CA
  • Rested, then shipped
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kahveji

Noun · From Turkish

The one who makes the coffee. The keeper of the coffeehouse.

The name

a job description, not a brand.

In Turkish, the kahveji is the person who makes the coffee. Not the owner of the house, not the one who talks about it; the one whose hands are on the pot, who knows by the sound of the foam when it is ready. Coffeehouses ran on that trust for five hundred years. We took the word as a standard to live up to, and every bag that leaves this roastery carries it like a signature.

A top-down Turkish coffee brewing setup with a copper cezve and ground coffee.

The family

built by equipment people.

Kahveji grew out of Saki, a family company that has built coffee and tea brewing equipment since 2018. Years of testing kettles and brewers taught us something uncomfortable: the brew is only as honest as the roast behind it. So in 2022 we put a Loring on the floor and started roasting ourselves. We came to it the way equipment people do; we took the process apart, measured everything, and kept only what made the cup better.

A Kahveji barista making drinks at the white mobile coffee cart, with the espresso machine and menu card on the counter and the KAHVEJI wordmark across the front panel.

The turn

we took it apart first.

The practice

a short list, done properly.

We roast a deliberately short list of coffees, to order, and rest every bag before it ships because fresh-off-the-roaster coffee is not at its best; rested coffee is. Hüseyin Kılıç runs every roast and nothing leaves before it is tasted. The list rotates with the seasons, and when a coffee is gone, it is gone. We would rather do six coffees properly than forty approximately.

Freshly roasted coffee resting at the Kahveji roastery.
  • Rest every bag
  • Taste every roast
  • Keep the list short
  • Same cup, every time
  • Founded 2022
  • A Saki company, est. 2018
  • Roasted on a Loring
  • Fountain Valley, CA

The people

the hands on the roaster.

Hüseyin Kılıç runs every roast at Kahveji. Years at the machine, a short list of coffees, and a standing rule: nothing ships before it is rested and tasted. When you call about your coffee, odds are you are talking to the person who roasted it.

Hüseyin Kılıç · Head Roaster

Hüseyin, Kahveji Head Roaster, at the roaster.
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  • ROASTED TO ORDER
  • RESTED ON THE WAY, PEAK WHEN IT ARRIVES
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  • FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
  • SINGLE-ORIGIN COFFEE
  • ROASTED IN SMALL BATCHES