Who We Are
We offer our show-stopping coffees as a medium for building a better world.
Maria Eugenia Escobar (Perez), one of the family owners of Finca La Senda in Guatemala, evaluating beans with an employee. Photo by Finca La Senda.
Relational
We put reciprocal, respectful relationships with our customers and partners at the heart of what we do.
We Are
Show-Stopping
Our goal is for our coffee to stop you in your tracks. We aim to challenge your notions of what coffee can be.
Local
While we will eventually do business in other states, we prioritize Berkshire County and the surrounding region.
Approachable
We care about craft but keep our coffees approachable. We never judge our customers for what they want, even if we don’t offer it.
World-Building
Our ambitions don’t stop at great coffee. Our goal is to change our food and economic systems.
Political
Coffee, like everything else, is political. We are unapologetically anti-racist, pro-queer and pro-worker.
Origin Story
From our founder, Tamir Novotny
I never thought I’d be in the coffee business. 15 years ago my roommate moved out to grow coffee and I thought, “that’s nice, good luck.” I barely drank coffee until about two years ago.
In early 2024, I went to New Zealand and had the first truly outstanding coffee of my life. Everywhere we went, the coffee was consistently good, and everyone knew how to make it. Then I got back to the States and ordered the same drink in the airport. My first thought: “What Is This?”
From there I learned about commodity coffee and the harm it does to farmers, to workers and to the planet — in addition to falling far short of what coffee can be. I start making my own espresso with a manual lever press. My wife made me a custom shelf to hold all the toys.
Soon I started hosting friends and got hooked on their physical reactions to their first sips. I bought a little manual steel drum roaster and started roasting. Friends started asking when they could buy my coffee.
Rainy Day Coffee is me following community energy. Never in my life have people been so excited about anything I’m done. Following energy is now one of Rainy Day Coffee’s core principles.
Rainy Day Coffee is also me trying to build a little piece of the world I want to live in. I genuinely believe that, with intention and rigor, anything we pursue can help build the world we want to live in. I want to live in a world where everyone can build a life of dignity, freedom and care. That’s why Rainy Day Coffee outwardly supports political causes and prioritizes relationships over a politically “neutral,” profit-first approach. We also aim to embody the world we want through the ways we do business, including how we work with employees, partners and suppliers.
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