Our Roastery - Racc Roasters El Salvador

Our Roastery: Racc Roasters

Where the coffee actually happens

GoodBeans is the coffee shop in San Benito. Racc Roasters is the roastery behind it: a small space in Merliot, Santa Tecla, where every bean we sell gets roasted, sorted and packed. No storefront, no espresso bar. Just a roaster, color sorter, a lot of green coffee, and a French press ☕️

Meet Joshua

Our roaster is a gas-fired MCR-2D, handmade by Mill City Roasters from Minneapolis, roasting about 2 kg per batch. We named it Joshua, after the computer in WarGames, and there's a sticker on the hopper that asks, "Do you want to play a game?". As you can imagine, there are stories with that machine. It's solid iron, built like a tank, with a control panel full of real buttons straight out of a silo, and we've taken it apart and put it back together enough times to know it by heart. Good little workhorse once you get to know it.

Joshua runs on software we built ourselves. RoastRacc watches every roast, logs every curve, and replays our profiles batch after batch, so the Torogoz you buy on a Tuesday tastes like the one from last month. 

Roast day

We roast a couple of times a week, usually 15 to 20 batches in a day. The day starts on a dark roast, then we work from the darkest coffees down, and the lightest, shortest roasts go last. Every batch goes through a color sorter that pulls out beans we wouldn't brew ourselves as well as any stones. Then it gets bagged, labeled with its roast date, and sent to the shop or to you.

Whatever's too little to fill a bag goes into jars at the shop, where it becomes pour-overs and cold brew. Very little gets wasted.

Where the green comes from

Most of our coffee comes from Finca Las Nubes on Cerro Las Ranas near Juayúa, grown by Fernando Gutiérrez. The Guara lots come from a small circle of coffee growers we know and trust throughout El Salvador, several of whom have grown Cup of Excellence–winning lots.

We buy the whole year's green at harvest, when the best lots are available, and always pay above the market price. Our coffee goes from the mill straight to the roastery, a drive instead of an ocean crossing. It's stored in hermetic bags, and we check its moisture every time we open a new sack.

The result

In 2026, GoodBeans was ranked #69 in The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops for North/Central America & the Caribbean. That recognition is for the shop, but the shop runs on what comes out of this room.

Wholesale

The roastery isn't open to the public, but we do host scheduled business visits. Contact us to set one up if interested in wholesale roasted coffee.