Novela Coffee Roasters is a small-batch roaster in Phoenix, Arizona. Novela means novel in Spanish, and the roasters chose a Spanish name to pay tribute to their own heritage and to celebrate their culture through coffee. They add nothing to the coffee and set out to show what producers have created at origin: “We are simply writing the final chapter of the novel.”

The retail range has three coffees. The Bandera Blend is the signature espresso blend, combining coffee from Brazil with a natural from Colombia, and is made to work with milk and sugar as well as on its own. El Lobo is a dark roast drawn from a seasonal rotation of origins. Palmera is a washed single origin grown by smallholder producers at 1,500 metres in Huila, Colombia, from Caturra, Castillo and Colombia varieties. Every coffee comes as whole beans or ground coarse, medium or fine.

Novela also roasts for cafés and other businesses wholesale, with coffee roasted locally in Phoenix.

Partner cafés

Coffee on the shelf

Photograph: Novela Coffee Roasters