Bluebeard Coffee Roasters
Small-batch specialty coffee from the City of Destiny — two rooms, one roastery, and a decade of quietly backing the people who make Tacoma, Tacoma.
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6th Ave café · 2201 6th Ave · 7am–5pm daily
STW Roastery & Café · 5428 S Tacoma Way · Tue–Sun 7–3 · Mon 7–1
Early believer: backed Stars 4 Peace in 2014 and hosted THE WALL's Donation Station in 2017
2025 Green Coffee & Employment Transparency Report — out now
Fresh roast shipped · subscriptions from $19 · bluebeardcoffee.com
Single-origin, in season
Right now: El Palto Natural (Amazonas, Peru), Idido (Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia), Magdalena Camajá Calo (Guatemala), Miller Vasquez Pink Bourbon (Huila, Colombia) and Mandomashe AA (Tanzania).
The Narrows & El Capitán
The Narrows espresso blend is the house workhorse; El Capitán is the Latin American blend built on Ki-Saya, Chiapas. Both from $20 a bag.
Decaf that isn't an apology
La Concordia, Chiapas — mountain-water process, so the cup keeps its sweetness. For the 3 pm regroup.
6th Ave — the original
Open, airy, on the corner of 6th & State since April 2011 — a 1928 former Ford dealership. Big windows, a long bar, the neighborhood coming and going. 7am–5pm, every day.
STW Roastery & Café
A rebuilt 100-year-old furniture showroom on South Tacoma Way — roastery, café and HQ under one tall ceiling. Watch the roast while you drink it.
Transparency, published
Every year Bluebeard publishes what it paid for green coffee and what it paid its people. Read the report and draw your own conclusions — their words.
Every project like this has a first handful of people who back it before it's proven. Bluebeard was one of ours — twice.
2014 — Stars 4 Peace. When Stars 4 Peace was a stage, a flyer and an idea, Bluebeard put money behind it. Financial support, no strings, from a coffee roaster that had been open barely three years itself.
2017 — THE WALL's Donation Station. When THE WALL began collecting for local nonprofits, Bluebeard hosted a Donation Station on its counter — a physical place on 6th Ave where the community could give. That station is the ancestor of the Giving Map and THE HOARD you see on this site today.
We don't forget early believers. If you're reading this with a Bluebeard cup in your hand, you're sitting in one of the rooms that helped make THE WALL possible. Bluebeard is one of many — meet the whole original community on the Yellowbrick.
6th Ave · 2201 6th Ave, Tacoma 98403 · 7am–5pm daily STW Roastery & Café · 5428 S Tacoma Way, Tacoma 98409 · Tue–Sun 7am–3pm · Mon 7am–1pm Fresh roast, subscriptions and mugs at bluebeardcoffee.com.
You backed us in 2014 and 2017; this is us returning the favor. The page is free and already live. Claim it, and post a Gem — a small offer for people who give to a local nonprofit (a dollar off a drip, a free refill, a bag discount) — and it appears on the Gem map, your page, the Holiday HOPE Hop and in THE HOARD. Ten minutes, no contract, cancel any time.