Specialty green coffee for US roasters
Kenyan coffee, from the hills we come from.
Single-origin AA, AB, Peaberry and every other Kenyan grade. Rooted in Mount Kenya, sourced from every region at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange by a family that grew up picking it.
Why Marcus & Beams
We’re from there. Our founder grew up in Gatundu, Kiambu County, in a family that delivered its coffee to the local cooperative factory and later picked on the big estates for wages. We know these hills by name, not by brochure.
We buy at the exchange. Our sister company in Kenya, Vortex Hive Ltd, is a licensed coffee dealer with a seat at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange. Every lot we offer is traceable to the factory or estate that produced it, and to the sale where we bought it.
Every cost, shown. Our family runs both ends of the trade: buying and export in Kenya, import in the US. Every quote lists the auction price, our sister company’s buying and export fee, freight and US entry, and our margin, each on its own line.
Where our coffee grows
Mount Kenya: Nyeri · Kirinyaga · Murang’a · Kiambu · Embu · Meru
Across Kenya: Rift Valley · Mount Elgon · Kisii
For roasters: 2026/27 main crop
The 2026/27 auction season is under way, and our Kenya team is already sampling. Request a sample set now, and you’ll be first in line for cupping samples from the lots we buy this season.
Prefer email? Write to sourcing@marcusandbeams.com.
Outside the US? We can still bid for you at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange.
Giving back
10¢ from every kilo. For every kilogram of coffee we sell, Marcus & Beams gives 10¢ to the Hive Futures Foundation. That’s $6 from every 60-kilogram bag.
School fees, paid in full. Hive Futures pays all three years of Senior School fees for bright students from Kenya’s farming communities, so they can finish school.
