Folio is a small project run by Jean-Marc and Nancy, out of our home in San Jose, California. The idea is simple: each month, pick one coffee we're curious about, roast it carefully in our garage, write down what made it worth your attention, and send the bag and the writing together.
Each release is numbered (Folio Nº 01, Nº 02, and so on) and produced in a small finite run. When it's gone, it's gone. The next release is a different coffee, the following month. We pick what we'd want to drink next, and tell you why.
Jean-Marc roasts. Nancy shapes how it all looks and feels. Every coffee gets multiple practice roasts before the production batch, with each profile logged in Artisan and tasted back-to-back until it lands right. Nancy works on the bag, the website, the printed cards, the small editorial decisions that make a release feel like a deliberate object. We both drink a lot of coffee.
The name comes from the bookbinding term. A folio is a single sheet folded once, the smallest possible book. Each release is exactly that: a small, deliberate thing.
The first release was about Yunnan, China, partly because that's where this whole project started, and partly because almost no one in the US is drinking specialty Yunnan yet. Future releases will be from somewhere else. We don't pre-plan a year in advance.
Everything is roasted in our garage on a Kaleido M1 Lite. Bags ship within five days of roast date. Local pickup is available in San Jose if you'd rather meet the people behind the bag.
— Jean-Marc & Nancy
San Jose, California