Stereoscope Coffee

Stereoscope Coffee is a specialty roaster founded in 2013 in Newport Beach, California, by a small team of baristas and Q-graders. The company built its identity around a concept it calls the Five Elements — Altitude, Soil, Fauna, Climate, and Farmer & Roaster — a framework it uses to articulate the chain of decisions and conditions that shape each coffee from farm to cup. Its design language, developed with Oslo-based studio OlssønBarbieri, has drawn as much attention as its coffee, earning a cluster of international packaging awards between 2023 and 2024.

The founding team set out with a stated mission to make high-quality specialty coffee accessible without sacrificing rigor. Starting from Orange County rather than one of the coastal specialty-coffee epicenters, Stereoscope positioned itself as a community-rooted operation with a Q-grader-trained approach to sourcing and evaluation. Over the decade since launch it has expanded its retail footprint in Newport Beach while growing a direct-to-consumer online presence and a wholesale program.

Current offerings lean heavily on Colombian micro-lots — a Las Flores Java and an El Diviso Ombligon are recent releases, the latter also available as a decaf — alongside an Ecuadorian lot from Mitad Del Mundo. Retail pricing on single-origins runs roughly $32–$38 for standard sizes, consistent with the positioning of a roaster drawing on certified Q-grader evaluation and traceable, named-farm sourcing. No specific roasting-style data (temperature curves, degree of development) is published on the site.