The Scoop in Alaska Master roaster Michael Gesser turned his love of travel, coffee and the outdoors into a unique business venture when he founded the Alaska Coffee Roasting Company in 1994. Having lived in Kenya for nearly ten years and visited every coffee-producing country on the planet, his personal relationships with the coffee producers allow him to have an influential hand in the beans that he sells, from planting coffee trees, to harvesting the beans to preparing the final product. The Beans We specialize in single estate varietal coffee beans, and like fine wine, each batch is tasted and approved before receiving the ACRC seal of approval. Wherever possible, the beans are organic, and in some cases, they are better than that--they grow wild. The beans are always meticulously picked by hand at the peak of ripeness and not a moment before. After being dried and separate ...