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Founded in Rockville, Maryland in 1991 by the original founders of Starbucks Coffee, Quartermaine Coffee Roasters is a regional specialty coffee roaster committed to providing customers with fresh, flavorful, roast-dated coffee.

More than a decade later, Quartermaine has achieved “cult status” among coffee drinkers, and is the favorite specialty coffee roaster in Washington, D.C. as well as the freshest specialty coffee roaster in the East Coast.

Roger Scheumann, Quartermaine's President, is from Seattle, WA. His family was principally responsible for introducing Americans to what is commonly referred to as “specialty coffee” when they co-founded a small, local coffee shop over 30 years ago. It was called Starbucks Coffee.

To ensure its supply of great tasting coffee, Quartermaine maintains close relationships with specialty coffee farms and estates throughout the world’s coffee growing regions. Roger and his buyers make regular buying and tasting trips to coffee origin countries to personally select Quartermaine’s top grade arabica coffees.

Once selected, the “green” beans are imported to Quartermaine’s East Coast roasting facility in Rockville, MD where they are individually craft roasted to a deep, chestnut brown. This “deep” roast color serves to maximize each coffee’s flavor, body and acidity (the three pillars of great tasting coffee) into a delicious coffee drinking experience.

To ensure freshness, each Quartermaine coffee receives a unique “roast date.” This lets each customer knows exactly when their coffee was roasted so they can be sure they are drinking the freshest possible coffee.