Maniac Roasting

Maniac Roasting Do you like coffee? That's awesome, 'cause we totally roast coffee! Come stop by or give us a call, we'd love for you to have our coffee!

In 2002 we launched The Black Drop Coffeehouse in downtown Bellingham with little more than a few nickels rubbed together and a whole lot of elbow grease. Over the years, we've learned how much we didn’t know – we became obsessed with community, relationships, coffee, quality, and freshness. We learned how to develop a café culture, hiring staff that we treated like family, and explored the most exacting standards of drink preparation – those embraced by the Specialty Coffee Association of America and the United States Barista Championship. We imbued our staff with these standards and focused on drink-making quality. Soon thereafter it became clear that the ultimate way to control coffee quality and freshness was to purchase and roast all our own beans. In 2006, we launched Maniac Roasting as way to complement the Black Drop’s vision and enhance our commitment to quality. The Black Drop Coffeehouse has since been passed on to the capable hands of a long-time employee, but the importance of relationships continues to influence the vision of Maniac Roasting, which remains with the original ownership. We prefer to grow relationships organically – we don't just wholesale our coffees, we can also provide the same exact training as we held ourselves to while operating The Black Drop.

In the early aughts The Black Drop Coffeehouse donated water bottles to an elementary school "fun run". Anyway, I saved...
11/13/2025

In the early aughts The Black Drop Coffeehouse donated water bottles to an elementary school "fun run". Anyway, I saved the thank you poster the kids made for us and this week I realized that those 'kids' are absolutely young adults now.

08/20/2025

When we bought an espresso machine, we were on the hunt for the best local coffee. Bellingham has plenty of options that we tried, but Maniac Roasting was the clear winner for us.

We've been buying the Espresso Alectrona for the last year or two, bonus that they deliver it, and I haven't tried anything else that holds a candle to it. It's rich, buttery smooth, not fruity, it's everything I want in an espresso. One of these days I'll get around to expanding my palate and try their other roasts, but if you're looking for an excellent espresso, look no further.

Maniac produces right here in Bellingham, and they deliver to your front door! For those east of Bellingham, you can also pick it up at the Rome store on Mount Baker Highway.

04/23/2025
Hello friends! Long time no see. I'm quite terrible at Maniac's social media 'cause I know I don't like my feed cluttere...
04/17/2025

Hello friends! Long time no see. I'm quite terrible at Maniac's social media 'cause I know I don't like my feed cluttered with tons of ads.

This isn't an ad!

I wanted to be forthright and let you fine folks know that our prices and sizes have changed. The coffee C Market has skyrocketed this past year and now with minimum and possibly heavier tariffs we just couldn't hold off. I was hoping to hold off the storm, but we simply weren't charging enough to keep going. I've increased our prices for the first time in a few years and to keep the sticker shock minimal, also have reduced the standard bag from one pound to 12oz. I'm a bad capitalist so please believe me when I say making these changes made me feel terrible, but I also know our doors need to stay open.
Thanks for your ongoing support of us and I hope to be able to roast up some awesome coffee for you for a long time!
Peace out, yo!
-Alexarc

Howdy friends! I don't update here much 'cause we all have a lil too much social media in our lives. However, it's votin...
03/18/2025

Howdy friends! I don't update here much 'cause we all have a lil too much social media in our lives. However, it's voting time for the PNW and we've been nominated!

Vote once per day from March 17th - March April 4th!

11/21/2024

Yissss

You need the bean juice!
04/19/2024

You need the bean juice!

We did it with Cascadia Daily News last year and hopefully we can do it again with The Herald this year! Voting link in ...
03/29/2024

We did it with Cascadia Daily News last year and hopefully we can do it again with The Herald this year! Voting link in comments.

Holy baloney! We certainly felt like the underdog in the Cascadia Daily News' Best of Bellingham coffee category! We were up against big name roasters and roasters who have coffee houses attached. As a small roaster who really focuses on local we are so thankful for all of your votes and confidence in our product.

Humbly, thank you so much.

03/20/2024

IT'S TIME TO VOTE!

Well, yeah the big national vote is coming up, but the vote I'm talking about is for our local hometown businesses we love. I'm hoping that if you follow our page that you like our coffee. If you feel it worth the 20 seconds to vote for us we'd sure appreciate it since we're up against some great other local roasters!

We're under Eat&Drink and then Coffee Roasters. Make sure to hit SUBMIT after you click on us!

You can vote once a day (and once from your phone or another IP if you wanna, lol).

https://www.votecascades.com/

Do you like coffee? That's awesome, 'cause we totally roast coffee! Come stop by or give us a call, we'd love for you to have our coffee!

03/16/2024

Cheri knows how a hot cup of coffee can put a smile on someone's face. Thank you Maniac Roasting for your coffee donations!

Maybe skip that coffee drink?
03/07/2024

Maybe skip that coffee drink?

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