Hi, I am Mark Kuhnke — welcome to our roastery in Salado, Texas, where my wife Kim and I roast exceptional coffees in small batches to highlight the story, origin, and character of each bean.
I started Double K Roasters as hobby roasting for friends and family a few years ago. What started as curiosity grew into a passion for helping others experience what fresh roasted coffee can truly taste like.
The leap from hobby to a growing business began with roasting coffee in 1/2 lbs. bags that were private labeled as gifts for wedding guests, corporate gifts, and party favors.
Today, Double K Roasters roasts has expanded to sell to coffee lovers who value quality over quantity, crafted for anyone who appreciates a cup with depth, care, and a sense of balance.
Explore our current roasts
Brazil Jacuí Tulio Arantes
Like so many other farmers, Tulio Arantes started working his family farm as a child, where he learned about planting, caring for, and harvesting coffee each growing season.
At just 18, he bought his own small piece of land to plant a farm, eventually acquiring another. His farm is called Sitio Santana, and has an altitude of 1100 meters. It's located on the outskirts of Jacuí, which is part of south Minas Mogiana growing region. At just 8 hectares in total, Tulio is able to manage most of the operations with just the help of his family. This lot was dry processed, meaning the whole cherries are dried as one.
While some dry process coffees can be fruity, Brazilian dry process coffees tend to be more body/bittersweet base, which has earned them the reputation of being the perfect base for blending.
Brazil Salmo Plus
Cerrado is home to 5% of all the species that share our planet. This incredibly diverse biome is a rich savannah that receives abundant sunlight all year, and its ideal coffee-growing climate has only been recently discovered in the past 50 years.
After frost and pests decimated Brazil’s coffee industry in 1975, entrepreneurial farmers that refused to give up ventured into Cerrado to plant new beginnings in this undeveloped region.
Today, coffee trees have spread far and wide across 210,000 hectares of land in Cerrado. It’s become a hub for innovation and advanced farming techniques, leading to a strong reputation for quality coffee.
Mexico Chiapas Siltepec
The Sierra Madre de Chiapas mountain range cuts across a good portion of Central America, and is home to countless coffee farms in Mexico's southern Chiapas region.
The area is made up of mostly small scale coffee farmers, many with just a couple hectares of land. The coffee that makes up this lot is pulled from higher altitude zones in Siltepec, spanning a range of 1500 to 1900 meters above sea level. Most of the farms are planted in older Typica and Bourbon types, with Caturra, and Catuaí cultivars mixed in.
Each farmer processes their own coffee at home using small depulping equipment (motorized or hand-crank), fermenting in cement tanks, and then typically drying the coffee on rooftop patios. The coffee is well-balanced, and crowd-pleasing, and one you can develop to a wide range of roast levels.