Buying Fresh Roasted Coffee Online in Canada In 2025

Discover the best place to buy coffee beans online in Canada. Learn about independent roasters, ethical sourcing, roast types, and guaranteed freshness. Then shop at Cupper’s today!

In 2025, ordering coffee beans online in Canada no longer about convenience. It’s also about supporting local, enjoying exceptional quality, and making informed choices. This guide will walk you through everything you need to know to buy the perfect coffee beans online. You’ll understand roast profiles, and learn the benefits of supporting independent Canadian roasters.

If you’re looking for where to buy fresh coffee beans online, you’ve come to the right place. At Cupper’s, we have over 30 years of artisan roasting experience. Our passion for great coffee matches our love of our customers. And we deliver fresh, locally-roasted, ethically-sourced coffee direct to your door.

Independent vs. Big Brand Coffee Roasters

When ordering coffee beans online, the first important decision is often overlooked. It’s whether to buy from big brand coffee roasters or from an independent coffee roastery.

The advantage of big brands is they have more online traffic to their store. This is because they have greater name recognition in general. For big brands, think of companies like Brazilian owned Tim Horton’s or American owned Starbucks. But there are solid reasons why buying from a smaller, independent roastery is better than a big brand.

One of the biggest reasons is the freshness and quality of the roast. In fact, the roast date of coffee beans should be a major factor when choosing a coffee to buy. Coffee beans reach their peak flavours 4-16 days after roasting. The problem with buying from bigger brands is that the roast date is not always clear or evident. This affects the flavour and aroma of the beans if they have gone outside of the ideal range.

The best way to get to fresh roasted coffee is to visit your local independent coffee roaster. Do this either in-person or online! You also have a greater selection of roast types and flavours of coffee from a local roaster.

Support Canadian Businesses: Focus on local Canadian roasters for quality and community impact. Support businesses that invest in local communities.
Guaranteed Freshness: Understand the importance of roast dates and small-batch roasting. Experience peak flavor with beans roasted only when you order.
Wide Variety: Explore diverse roast profiles from coffee origins from around the world. Try artisan blends and single-origin coffees.
Ethical Sourcing: Choose coffee that supports sustainable, fair practices. Find clear information about coffee sourcing and roasting processes.
Convenience: Gain from expert knowledge and tailored recommendations. Have your premium coffee delivered right to your door.

Coffee Beans Roasted To Order For You

As covered earlier, the roast date is a major factor when buying coffee beans online. Avoid mass-produced brands that lack clear roast dates or relevant roasting information.

The best online sellers roast your beans when you order, not in advance. The coffee is not mass produced, where flavour and quality degrade while waiting on a shelf on sale.

At Cupper’s, we understand the importance of freshness when it comes to roasted coffee beans. We roast all our coffee as it sells, not weeks or months in advance. This means the beans you receive from your online order ship right after roasting. We guarantee that the beans you receive are at their peak flavour, aroma, and quality.

Degree of Coffee Roast

Selecting a great coffee product requires more than looking at the roast date. Independent roasters offer knowledge to share with their customers. This sharing of information is one of the biggest perks of choosing local roasteries. Roast type, for instance, is a major consideration to keep in mind when choosing coffee beans. The longer a coffee roasts, the more the natural sugars caramelize. This influences the brew’s flavour, body and aroma.

According to the Coffee Association of Canada, there are three main styles of roast – Light Roast Coffee, Medium Roast Coffee, and Dark Roast Coffee.

Read more about the different roasts of coffee in our Coffee Roasting article. Learning more about your coffee beans helps you make informed choices with your bean purchases.

Besides to the degree of roast, the location where the coffee grows is very important. Coffee beans are from regions between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The source location affects the flavour and quality as well. For more information on how the different regions affect our coffees, read The Beginner’s Guide to Coffee Beans.

Light Roast Coffee

Light roasts are a great choice for both coffee fanatics and newbies alike. We roast these coffee beans for the shortest period of time. They are lighter in color, more acidic, more fruit and floral. Because of the shorter roasting time, the beans keep more of the flavors of their growing region. They keep a slight bit more of their caffeine content as well. We describe these coffees as being refreshing and brighter than darker roasts.

At Cupper’s, we offer two light roast coffee beans:

Medium Roast Coffee

Medium roast coffees have a mid-range brown color and intensity of flavour. They are less acidic with increased sweetness and deeper aromas.

Medium roasts are also the most consumed coffee bean roast. This is why our selection of medium roasts is our largest range of coffee products. The flavor profiles have a broad range within different medium roasts. We provide a large selection to give our customers choices to try out and discover.

Our regular Cupper’s offering includes 18 medium roast single-source coffees and blends. Try these of medium roast coffees to learn what they’re known for:

Dark Roast Coffee

The most intense deep brown in color, dark roast coffee beans can develop oils on their surface. They also have more caramelization with flavours of cola, molasses and bittersweet chocolate.

While our medium roasts are our biggest selection of coffees, our dark roasts are not far behind. The dark roasts have a range of flavor profiles to match your taste pallet. These range from nutty and spice notes to sweeter hints of caramel and dark chocolate.

At Cupper’s we offer 17 different dark roasts and blends to choose from:

- A Coffee Shop Near Me, Dark Roast
- Bad Coffee
- Café Paris
- Coal Banks Joe
- Diner Joe
- Espresso Zilla
- French Roast
- Gravel Bar
- Guatemala Antigua Dark
- JavaZombies Dark
- Mexican Custepec Dark
- San Francisco Espresso
- Spitfire Joe
- Sumatra Mandheling
- Summer Blend
- Valentine Blend
- Xtreme Bean

Coffee Blends from Single Origin Coffee

On top of having light, medium, and dark roasts of our single sourced coffee beans, Cupper’s also offers a large selection blended coffees. These separate into three categories:

Many of the above listed coffee products fit within these coffee blend categories.

At Cupper’s, we understand the importance of innovation and experimentation. Hence our array of blends for you to pick and choose your new favorites from. The benefit of blended coffees is that you get the best of both worlds. There’s notes of both lighter and darker roast flavours.

To learn more about blending coffee and coffee blends, read Don’t Buy a Coffee Blend Until You Read This.

Fresh Roasted Decaffeinated Coffees

At Cupper’s, we also roast decaffeinated green coffee beans. They’re processed using Swiss and mountain water processes. This ensures decaffeination without the use of chemicals. It also preserves the quality and flavour of the original coffee. Best of all, we roast these coffees fresh to order and in house, so the decaf coffee is always fresh. This is rare, even for independent coffee roasters, so we take great pride in our decaf options.

As a side note, these coffees look MUCH darker when they’re roasted because of the water processing. The green beans themselves are a darker green than regular green beans. This carries through in the roasted coffee. So while these decafs look like and oil on the surface like dark roasts, they are actually medium roast coffees.

We offer four varieties, each with distinctive flavour notes:

Benefits of Small-Batch Coffee Roasters in Canada

We’ve have covered the advantages of buying from independent, small-batch coffee roasteries. But there are extra benefits in buying coffee beans online from an independent. These extra benefits are what set local, independent businesses apart from commercial coffee.

First, they have more detailed precision used in roasting small batches.
Second, they have greater involvement in the community.
Third, they reflect strong company values. They know the importance of connecting and inclusion. This is true in both the business and social environment.

Ethical And Sustainable Canadian Coffee

Knowing where your coffee grows and gets harvested is important. It’s as important as knowing who roasts and packages them for you. This can be a problem when buying coffee beans online. Unfortunately, not every major coffee bean buyer prioritizes the farmers who grow coffee. This leads to unethical coffee production.

At Cupper’s, we recognize the importance in ethical sourcing. We are diligent about the best sources possible around the world. This includes from Asia and Indonesia, Central and South America, and Africa. Having confidence in the source of your coffee beans is essential. It contributes to a more wholesome and ethical retail market as a whole.

Café Femenino Coffee

We at Cupper’s commit to ethical sourcing. One example is Cupper’s continuing relationship with Café Femenino. Café Femenino commits to ending the cycle of poverty for women farmers in the coffee industry. Our coffee purchases help improve employment conditions for women in remote, rural coffee communities. This is especially important where societal barriers and cycles of poverty persist. These barriers prevent female farmers from prospering off their hard work.

The coffee production industry relies on female labor. Café Femenino works to ensure those women have fair treatment and pay. Café Femenino farms and cooperatives must provide a variety of benefits, including:

Legal rights to their farmland
Leadership positions
Financial decision making power
Direct payment for their coffee products

The decision to partner with Café Femenino was easy for Cupper’s. To learn more, read Café Femenino – Great Ethically-Sourced Coffee, Great Coffee Practices. Being a small, independent roaster and retail store 100% owned by women, this is important to us. Inclusivity and leadership by example are two of the core values of our company as a whole.

Direct Farm-to-Cup Coffees

Another issue often raised is buying coffee direct from the grower. This is often touted as the best way to get green beans. But the reality is not as simple. Most smaller roasters simply can not buy the volume of coffee the grower needs to sell to make a living. Growers often work in co-ops that produce many pallets of 60 kg bags of coffee.

The companies we buy our green beans from have had a long relationship with their growers and co-ops. Often these aren’t for years, but for decades! It’s important to us and the growers they get a fair value for their coffee. Our long-term, ongoing relationships help support these very real goals.

Buy Canadian Coffee That's Organic

Another consideration when buying beans online is if the coffee has organic certification. A second part of the question is can they be organic, but not certified?

First, certified organic coffee. Fertilizers and synthetic chemicals can have a bad effect on the coffee bean quality. This makes an organic growing method ideal for coffee production. It reduces the reliance on synthetic chemicals or other substances. Also organic farming methods are less detrimental to the environment. This makes organic-grown coffee better for humans and the planet.

Second, organic certification is often expensive for small growers. They often have to pay for the certification. But they don’t always see an increase in the price of their coffee to balance the cost. This is why we support growers who use green growing practices but are not certified.

Last, growers can buy certification… but this doesn’t mean the coffee is of good quality. Getting a low-quality coffee that’s certified only to try to raise the coffee price is not okay by us.

At Cupper’s, we work hard to source our coffee. All our coffee is ethical-sourced. It’s either certified organic, or grown with green growing practices, and fair-trade.

Guaranteed Freshness

One of the biggest advantages of independent roasters is more choice and control. You can check how fresh your beans are. This is because smaller coffee roasters are much more likely to roast-to-order. They’ll also roast in small batches according to their own average daily sales. Cupper’s roasters are masters at their craft. We roast in small batches on demand to ensure the utmost freshness and flavour.

When you buy coffee beans online from us, we package and ship the coffee within a day of it roasting. It arrives at your doorstep while the coffee’s flavour is at its highest quality. We guarantee to send your order within the peak flavour period.

Our Coffee Programs

Here at Cupper’s, we do more than roast and sell coffee. We offer wholesale coffee to both big and small wholesale consumers. We also provide opportunities for organizations to partner with us for their fundraisers.

Here is a quick rundown of what Cupper’s has to offer besides roasted coffee beans:

Fundraising with Coffee

Cupper’s offers a unique fundraising partnership program. This program helps community organizations and non-profits raise funds for their programs. We offer them branded coffee they can sell at a regular price, earning $5 back for their organization or event.

Our team helps create your own blend of coffee that is unique to your fundraiser. We want to help organizations maximize their profits with our fundraising program. As a result, we don’t have a start-up fee or a minimum order.

Wholesale Coffee

For cafes looking to start up or switch coffee brands, Cupper’s has wholesale solutions. We serve many cafes, restaurants, offices, and businesses around Alberta. We also supply wholesale teas, Monin flavour syrups, and other food supplies products.

Plus, Cupper’s offers extra benefits for wholesale coffee accounts including:

Private label coffee
Monin flavoured syrups
Dr. Smoothie refreshers and mixes
Frappe powders
Milk alternatives (oat, coconut, almond, and soy)
Chocolate and caramel sauces
Disposable cups and lids
Cardboard beverage sleeves
Coffee and water filters

Office Coffee Solutions

Office coffee machines are on the decline. Staff are looking for a customized way to drink coffee within the work place.

If you work in an office and don’t want the blandness coming from your outdated office coffee maker, we can help. Check out our post all about improving the office coffee experience.

Cupper’s commits to helping all improve their coffee drinking experience. That goes for the workplace too. We offer coffee products wholesale to many clients, including offices and businesses.

Swap out bad brewed office coffee that you don’t know the sale date of. Get fresh roasted coffee instead. It has a positive impact on your work environment and attitudes of your staff.

Final Thoughts

When it comes to buying coffee beans online in Canada, there really is no beating a fresh batch of roasted beans from an independent roastery.

At Cupper’s, we have the vast selection of all types of roasts to meet the needs of everyone’s palettes. For the coffee experts, you know how essential it is to know where your coffee is coming from and when it was roasted. For any newbies, it’s key to always look for coffee suppliers who show commitment to both their craft and their community. Of the 33 varieties of roasted coffee beans we have to offer at Cupper’s, we are certain you will find the perfect roast or blend to tickle your fancy.

If you are looking to source coffee for a business, office space, or restaurant, don’t forget to checkout out all of our products, including brewers and brewing accessories.

All of our bean varieties are available for purchase online, so get started finding your perfect coffee today!