Photography by Rhiannon Johnston
The Tiny Shop
Hi, we’re Bill & Maggie! Come grab coffee and pastries and hang with us at 56 Deane St in Ellsworth, Maine!
We're open Tuesday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. for our summer hours.
We offer fresh daily baked goods, drip coffee, cold brew, espresso beverages, non-coffee drinks, a small pantry selection, merchandise, and our solar roasted whole beans or ground. Check out our menu here.
We also receive fresh deliveries of Bill's Bagels every Thursday during the summer and Friday year-round.
There are a few parking spots in our driveway, and street parking is available. Please be mindful of our neighbors when parking.
Our shop is tiny, so we don't offer indoor seating. If you'd like to enjoy your coffee with a view, we recommend taking a short walk to the Ellsworth Harbor Park & Marina at the end of our street.
Don’t live close by? No problem. We ship anywhere in the US and offer free shipping on coffee orders over $150.
About Our Roaster
The Bellwether Roaster was designed to be the most sustainable coffee roaster in the world, both in air quality and energy use, to enable businesses that roast coffee to minimize their environmental impact.
Bellwether took the same principles and processes discovered on traditional coffee roasting equipment, then applied it to modern technology to create a new kind of roasting experience. Precipice Coffee is proud to provide Maine’s first zero emissions Bellwether roasted coffee. We are also excited to share that the roaster and our cottage shop is now solar powered. We are proud to provide enough energy production to fully power our business.
The Bellwether Roaster is the most consistent and controllable roaster on the market with the lowest carbon footprint.
It’s the first-and-only commercial coffee roaster to remove particulates and VOCs through clean technology for zero-emission roasting. By using electricity instead of natural gas to roast, it reduces the carbon footprint of coffee roasting by an average of 90%. It allows us to track how much carbon we have saved through producing on this machine.
Our Beans
All of our green beans are harvested using sustainable farming practices, traded fairly, and many are certified organic. We also work to build close relationships with the farms where we source our beans to ensure these standards are upheld.
The default for the coffees that we roast is the washed processing method. We will note on styles that are natural process or honey process.
Our offerings are always changing due to seasonality of the growing regions that produce coffee.