RION — Blue Granite Roasting Co.

Blue Granite Roasting Co. · Lexington, SC

RION

El Salvador · Las Lomas · Medium

How fresh is your bag

That stamp is not a guess or a printed batch code. It is the day these beans came out of the roaster, stamped by hand before the bag was filled.

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How to brew it

Grind
Medium, like coarse sand. Grind it right before you brew, not the night before.
Ratio
1 : 16 — 22 g coffee to 350 g water. Two rounded tablespoons per six ounce cup if you are not weighing.
Water
200°F. Off a full boil for about thirty seconds. Filtered, not distilled. Distilled water has nothing in it for the coffee to hold onto.
Drip time
4 to 5 minutes from first pour to last drip.
If it tastes thin or sour
Grind finer, or go up to 23 g. You are pulling too little out of the bean.
If it tastes bitter or dry
Grind coarser, or drop your water to 195°F. You are pulling too much.
Storage
Sealed bag, cupboard, room temperature. Not the fridge. Not the freezer unless you are parking it for a month or more, and then do not open it until it is back to room temperature.

What is in the bag

OriginEl Salvador, Las Lomas
VarietalBourbon and Pacas
ProcessWashed
ElevationHigh, under native shade
Roast levelMedium
ProfileR3, locked
Net weight12 oz (340 g), whole bean
Tangerine Honey Walnut

The roast log

Every batch of RION that leaves here is listed below. Match the date stamped on your bag to the row.

Roast dateLotNotes
12 Sep 2026 R3-0912 Profile R3. First lot under the RION name.

Same profile, every batch. That is the whole point of locking it. If a lot ever drinks differently from the one before it, the row above will say so.

Why it is called RION

Rion, in Fairfield County, cut Winnsboro blue granite through the 1800s and 1900s. Stonecutters called it the Silk of the Trade. It went into the Flatiron Building in New York, and the quarry and its rail line are on the National Register today.

Solid craft. Smooth cup.

This coffee is grown high in the El Salvadoran mountains under native shade, on a farm one family has worked since 1957. We roast it to a single locked profile, every week, so this bag drinks like the last one.

Blue Granite Roasting Co.
Lexington, South Carolina · SC Home-Based Food ID: 32-202-00689

Not for resale. Processed and prepared by a home-based food production operation that is not subject to South Carolina's food safety regulations.