Commitment to quality runs in the family — and into your cup

Every cup of great-tasting Community Coffee is a promise, a personal commitment, from the Saurage family to yours. A promise of unwavering quality that 5 generations of Saurages have kept since 1919, and continue to keep with each freshly roasted blend you enjoy today.

Guided by faithful family stewardship and our genuine Louisiana roots, we passionately craft our 100% Arabica blends with over 100 years of Saurage expertise. Those time-tested traditions are what make Community coffee so rich, so smooth, so good.

And everything we do has to be as good as our coffee.

THERE'S ALWAYS A SAURAGE AT THE TABLE

Since the beginning, a member of the Saurage family has personally guaranteed your coffee's great taste in weekly cuppings. This generational tradition is about more than evaluating coffees. It's an ongoing fulfillment of the family's duty to bring you exceptional taste, cup after cup.

These days members of the third, fourth, and fifth generations gather for weekly cuppings — and cherished family time.

5 GENERATIONS OF EXPERTISE

Along with family cuppings, our team of coffee experts upholds strict quality standards with equal passion and care.

Our certified Coffee Graders cup our coffees 5 times throughout the sourcing and roasting process, ensuring great taste in your cup every time. Our master roasters expertly bring out beloved flavor profiles perfected over 100-plus years of Saurage family stewardship. And our manufacturing experts carry out 4 additional checks to preserve peak freshness from our roasters to your mug.

Every technique perfected and advanced since 1919, every bit of expertise cultivated and pushed forward over 5 generations, goes into giving you that consistent Community Coffee taste. After a century and counting, we're still refining our craft to share rich, smooth coffee experiences with you.

HOW DOES COMMUNITY COFFEE DELIVER A DELICIOUS, HIGH-QUALITY CUP EVERY TIME?

  • 5 generations of family and over 100 years of expertise in every cup
  • Weekly cuppings by family owners to personally ensure great taste
  • Certified Coffee Q Graders (think of them like coffee sommeliers) perform 5 total cuppings — rating our coffees for body, acidity, flavor, and aftertaste
  • Master roasters craft consistent flavor profiles perfected since 1919
  • 9 total quality-assurance checks from farm to shelf

A FAMILY BUSINESS THAT SPANS THE GLOBE

Coffee farming is a tradition in itself, with growing techniques passed down and refined from one generation to the next. The coffee industry relies on millions of family farms across the globe, each with a heritage as rich as the coffee they grow.

As a family-owned coffee company ourselves, we know that generations of experience and tradition make a big difference in your daily cup. That's why we source our Arabica coffees from hardworking growers around the world, building lasting relationships on shared values, common goals, and an unwavering commitment to quality.

With our direct-trade partners, we pay a fair price directly to the farmers for their high-quality, premium coffee. Everybody wins — including you, every time you brew a Community Coffee blend.

100% ETHICALLY SOURCED COFFEE

We thoughtfully source our coffee from seed to cup, ensuring our suppliers operate responsibly every step of the way. We make sure they're always doing the right thing, from ensuring workers' safety and protecting the environment to embracing ethical business standards.

Because when you can feel good about where your coffee comes from, it tastes that much better.

HOW DOES COMMUNITY COFFEE SOURCE THEIR COFFEE?

  • High-quality Arabica coffees sourced via lasting partnerships with growers around the world
  • Sourcing relationships built on shared values, goals, and expectations of high quality
  • We pay direct-trade partners a fair price for premium coffee beans
  • All our suppliers agree to ensure worker safety, be environmentally responsible, and uphold ethical practices

OUR FAMILY IS INVESTED IN THE FUTURE OF COFFEE

The Saurage family has always understood the importance of a stable coffee supply, for both you and the hardworking farmers at origin. It's a responsibility that fourth-generation owner Matt Saurage took to heart when Community Coffee became a founding member of World Coffee Research (WCR) in 2012.

Since then, over 200 coffee companies across the world have joined us in backing WCR. Together we passionately support their mission to grow, protect, and enhance supplies of quality coffee while improving the livelihoods of the families who produce it.

SUPPORTING THE INDUSTRY & CARING FOR FARMERS

Our yearly financial support helps fund WCR's groundbreaking work to develop and distribute new coffee plant varieties around the world. These new varieties boost climate and disease resilience, reduce environmental impact, create greater origin diversity, and improve farmer livelihoods — all major steps forward for the long-term sustainability of coffee.

We're proud to continue our active role on the WCR Board of Directors, helping forge the future of coffee with genuine care for farming families across the globe. It's all part of our family's commitment to bring you the best-tasting coffee, now and for generations to come.

HOW DOES COMMUNITY COFFEE CONTRIBUTE TO LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY?

  • Founding member and active Board participant of World Coffee Research
  • Part of a global effort to protect quality coffee supplies and improve farmer livelihoods
  • Annual financial support for the development and distribution of new, more stable coffee varieties
  • Long-term commitment to improve coffee's climate and disease resilience, minimize environmental impact, and create more diverse origins