09/10/2026
☕ An important announcement for everyone who’s !
Lost Without Coffee Co. is entering a new chapter.
We’ve made the decision to begin operating under Minnesota’s Cottage Food Exemption and focus on serving our local Twin Cities and Minnesota coffee community—with coffee roasted by us.
What does this mean for you?
For the time being, we cannot legally sell or ship our coffee outside of Minnesota under the Cottage Food Exemption. This restriction applies specifically to our coffee products, not other merchandise available through our website.
For our local customers, we’ll be offering pickup and delivery options. Beginning in August 2027, Minnesota law will also allow us to ship our coffee directly to customers throughout the state.
And if Lost Without Coffee continues to grow, our goal is absolutely to take the next step and eventually serve coffee lovers throughout the U.S.
So, why the change?
Transparency has always been important to me.
Over the past year, Lost Without Coffee Co. has sold white-label coffee while I learned the market, built the brand, and determined whether investing in roasting equipment made sense. I was selective about the suppliers and coffees I offered, choosing freshly roasted, high-quality coffee that I had personally vetted and was comfortable putting the Lost Without Coffee name on.
But there was always something missing.
There were parts of the final product I couldn't control—from bag sizes and blends to how each coffee was roasted. More importantly, I missed the part of coffee that I enjoy most:
Roasting it.
So I decided to change that.
I’ve invested in a small-batch 1.2 kg coffee roaster, and Lost Without Coffee Co. will now be roasting our own coffee and serving our local community under Minnesota’s Cottage Food Exemption.
This means more control over what goes into every bag, more opportunities to experiment with origins and roast profiles, and a product that feels much more like Lost Without Coffee Co.
Thank you to everyone who has followed, supported, purchased from, or simply encouraged this little coffee company along the way.
I’m excited about where we’re headed, and I can’t wait to start sharing freshly roasted Lost Without Coffee with our Minnesota neighbors.
Hopefully, someday soon, we’ll be roasting enough to send it to the rest of the country, too.
Coffee is your compass. You'd be lost Without it. ☕🌲
— Evan
Lost Without Coffee Co.
P.S. I will be selling only single origins while I am designing blends.
