Ross Street Roasting

04/07/2026

Any RSR fans close to Dubuque, take note: Fun coffee event at Roses & Berries Cafe is right around the corner on Friday, April 17th! ☕️🎉

☕ Something special is happening at Roses & Berries on April 17th!

We are teaming up with our friends at Ross Street Roasting for a morning coffee event you do not want to miss. Brian and his team are coming from Tama, Iowa and they are bringing along the people behind the very coffees in your cup, sourced straight from Brazil and Papua New Guinea.
Come meet your coffee, hear the stories behind it, and share a morning with us. It is free, it is open to everyone, and it is going to be so good.

Friday, April 17th at 9:30 AM at Roses & Berries

Are you a coffee lover? Tag someone who needs to be there! ☕

01/11/2026

We’ve said it hundreds of times over the past decade: Relationships are what make working in Specialty Coffee so special. After yet another knockout release of Stumbling Monkey, Jenny dropped by with a bag to thank Andrew and the crew at in Iowa City for being our go-to barrel source for a number of years now. 🥃🍺☕️💕🎉

11/28/2025

The wait is over: This year’s Stumbling Monkey release is live on the website! We had a chance to sip on it lat weekend at the holiday open house in Tama and it was GOOOOOOD (as always).

Pack your bags for a complex flavor journey: This barrel-aged Ethiopian natural process coffee has a complex flavor profile developed to accentuate sweetness amidst the host of other notes you’ll pick up on from the coffee itself, the barrel, the spirit & the beer it commingled with for a month.

11/21/2025

Our well-established fall tradition: The Stumbling Monkey is almost here! As always we use a natural process Ethiopian coffee and age the unroasted beans for a month in a freshly-emptied whiskey barrel. Our pals at had just emptied their Richard the Whale imperial stout when we got it, and before that had been aging a rye whiskey (a bottle of which I just got my hands on a few weeks ago)

It’s always a treat when we go the “full Iowa” with this annual release. It drops tomorrow in-person at the roaster in Tama and online next week. 🙊🥃🍺☕️🎉

11/14/2025

Curious about our sparse hints about Stumbling Monkey this year? - YES, we have a release coming soon!

Next weekend (Sat Nov 22nd) at the RSR Holiday Open House at the roastery in Tama, we'll have ~50 bags on hand for sale. And for online fans we'll be releasing in the online store on Black Friday (Nov 28th)

11/06/2025

In addition to the RSR Holiday Open House on Sat Nov 22, here are the other fun things happening in town that day!

A great start to the holiday season in Tama-Toledo! Be sure to check out these events on Saturday, November 22!

10/20/2025

We only pay for quality and we won’t ever bend on that.

Unlike major tech companies that are all raising prices while simultaneously lowering the quality of their platforms, products, & services- any price increase we reluctantly make only reaffirms our commitment to maintaining high quality standards while ensuring we can continue to operate sustainably.

09/30/2025

🙈 Guess who’s making an appearance again this fall!

This week we picked up this freshly-emptied rye barrel from our pals at in Iowa City used for their annual Richard The Whale release. We don’t always know which barrel we’ll get but we sure do love it when we have an All-Iowa Barrel Fiesta like this.

Look for our barrel-aged Ethiopian release, Stumbling Monkey, in November. More details to come!

05/26/2025

It’s cortado time, coffee friends! This shot courtesy of an at-home 50/50 blend of Divine Inspiration and Meow! - Ground on the Baratza Sette & pulled on the Breville Bambino Plus, all of which are available in or online store. Let us help your home barista dreams come true!

04/21/2025

In addition to the GREAT turnout we had from RSR pals on Saturday for our 10th anniversary party, huge shoutout to our business friends at Brewhemia (Cedar Rapids) and Gedney Bakery & Coffeehouse (Independence) for supplying some of the goodies for the party. And we can’t forget local kolache legend, Jeff Dostal, for bringing those delightful Czech treats. Not to be outdone, my Dutch mom brought up some treats from Pella as well. ☕️💕