SEY Coffee

SEY Coffee was started by Seattle friends Lance Schnorenberg and Tobin Polk, who began roasting in Brooklyn in 2010 under the name Lofted Coffee. They renamed the company SEY in 2017 and that August opened a roastery cafe at 18 Grattan Street on the Bushwick and Williamsburg border. SEY roasts on a 35-kilo Loring Kestrel and is known for very light roasts meant to give a clear expression of each lot. It publishes the producer, harvest date and the green prices it paid, including farm-gate, FOB and DDP figures, for each coffee. For home brewers, it is a reference point for what washed Ethiopian and Colombian single origins taste like at the light end of the roast spectrum.