Wild Gift Coffee brings coffee and culture to Austin

What’s special about it?

The company sells single origin and blended bags with beans sourced from Latin American countries such as Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru and Mexico. There are also some beans sourced from Africa, including Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda.

Rose has been in charge of sourcing and buying beans since the start, he said, and has traveled extensively around Latin America to build partnerships with local farmers there.

“That's the job and that's a thing that I always wanted to do,” Rose said. “That was a big focus, especially at first, in finding these relationships and finding producers to work with.”

Back at Wild Gift Coffee, the team tries new coffee beans and tests its current blends for quality control by grinding the beans and steeping them in water.

“This is how all coffee professionals will analyze coffee, because there's not really much training involved,” Rose said. “There's not a barista element. You need water heated to the right temperature, a grinder, a scale, and cups and spoons.”

The company also has two industrial-sized coffee bean roasting machines and an entire warehouse space dedicated to packing orders and storing its “green coffee,” or raw coffee beans sold in one-pound bags, ideal for home roasters.

Along with the company’s physical location in North Austin, 12-ounce Wild Gift Coffee bags can be found in local coffee shops around Austin including Once Over Coffee Bar, which the Ovitt’s opened in 2009.

The brand can also be found in both Austin Central Market locations.

• 3100 A Industrial Terrace, Austin
• www.wildgiftcoffee.com