Aethereal Coffee, an award-winning local roastery based in Palmer, offers a clean, sustainable coffee experience with its organic and fair-trade options.
The roastery is owned and operated by husband and wife team Troy McGlashan and Molly Kincaid. Their mission is to serve high-quality coffee with a clear conscience.
“That’s why I started Aethereal Coffee,” McGlashan said. “I wanted to focus on single-origin coffee, highlight each region’s unique flavors, and make sure it was organic and fair-trade.”
McGlashan founded Aethereal Coffee in 2018 after nearly a decade in the coffee industry. As he learned more about how coffee is grown and harvested around the world, he realized he wanted to make a difference. The hard work of farmers weighed heavily on him.
“It started to bother me that I was making a living off the hard labor of others,” McGlashan said. “Coffee is often full of pesticides and fungicides. I wanted to offer organic coffee. And I wanted it to be fair-trade because workers are carrying 75-pound sacks up mountains, picking each cherry at perfect ripeness by hand. I knew I had to change the way I did things.”
Earlier this year, McGlashan and Kincaid traveled to Nicaragua and Guatemala to visit two of the farms they source from. They wanted to see firsthand how the coffee was grown and meet the farmers to make sure they were treated fairly and followed safe farming practices.
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