Swift River Coffee Roasters - Raymond

This little roastery makes some of the best tasting Espresso I have had the privilege to try. Their beans are unbelievably fresh if you order from the online store. I have used their products to make all measure of Espresso drinks at home and my family simply can’t get enough. I almost regret making them their first Mocha Lattes, because now they all seem to think I am a free Starbucks with much better coffee. I have tried a few other brands of coffee that I ordered off Amazon and not gotten the same results at all. Lavazza never produces the rich crema I can achieve with Swift River, and Illy taste like burnt **** with no complexity. Honestly people, if you are an Espresso hobbyist in the state of Maine I implore you to give Swift River a try. When their fresh whole beans are combined with a quality Espresso grinder and a decent machine, you can make better tasting coffee at home than you are able to get at any cafe in the state. Full stop.

I have just gotten into extracting my own Espresso to make lattes at home and the only thing I was missing was some high quality freshly ground beans. I found this place on the web and put in an order for a single bag of River Rock Espresso ground because my coffee grinder is still on its way. I was passing through Raymond today and thought maybe it would be quicker to just stop by and see what they had on the shelf. When I walked up to the building, through the window of the front door, from a distance I saw a shelf with a bunch of packaged coffee bags. I assumed that though this was the main roasting factory, maybe they had a sales counter and sold beans also. As I got closer to the door I noticed that there wasn 't any counter, just two guys in there working away to make the product, so I figured I should leave them alone and head out. As I turned around to leave, the door swung open and a voice brightly said Hi! Can I help you find something! . I turned around to meet Ian Ballingall, the head roaster for the company. I explained that I was looking for really fresh beans to compliment my brand new espresso machine and Ian replied Are you Michael? I just was looking at your order a second ago! Come in! I was a bit taken aback, but Ian led me into the roastery and then showed me some of his machinery and talked a little bit about the process while he freshly ground some brand spankin new beans for my order. He handed them over with a smile and told me that next time I could just go to the store across the street to pick up my orders when I needed. I left feeling pretty darn privileged to have been let into the roastery and treated so warmly by the very man himself.Guys, I proceeded to go home and make, legitimately, the best tasting coffee beverages I have ever had. The roast was super dark and had more rich and robust coffee flavor than I would think even possible. It was almost comical how deep the flavor was, like it was saturating my mouth with a coffee essence I have never tasted before. It was quite the thing, and it was EXACTLY what I was looking for in the very first experience of using my new expensive Espresso machine to validate that I didn 't just blow a bunch of money. So Ian, if you read this, thank you very much.Friends and neighbors, if you can, stop sending your money to the Green Mountain Coffee roasters in Vermont and start giving it to Swift River Roasters. This business was created by, is owned by, and is staffed by, Mainers. They represent every bit of the warm friendly people we Mainers pride ourselves on being, and they make one hell of a good product. I encourage you to visit their website, find their nearest retailer, and buy a bag or two for yourselves.

Not customer service forward. Sent me the wrong product as a first time customer. Emailed stating that and they told me to use it. No refund or discount for another purchase. Will be finding a local company that cares about service. Would not recommend.

We were gifted some swift River coffee at Christmas and we have never turned back! It is such good quality and smells and tastes amazing!

Great little place to pick up our Swift River coffees.