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Roast! West Coast Collabs with Marea Coffee in Solana Beach, CA.

Press Release: With On The Road Edition you'll never be without your daily coffee driver.

Roast! West Coast Collabs with Marea Coffee in Solana Beach, CA.

MAREA COFFEE RELEASES ON THE ROAD EDITION COFFEE WITH ROAST! WEST COAST.

On The Road is a single origin coffee from Finca Muxbal in Chiapas, Mexico, and is available now on www.mareacoffee.com.

Tuesday, July 21st, 2025

Solana Beach, CA—Marea Coffee has partnered with the Roast! West Coast coffee network for On The Road—one in a series of small business roaster collabs meant to uplift the community aspect of coffee, promote cooperation among businesses, and offer customers a great daily coffee.

Editor’s note: The video above is also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.
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The road can be a hectic place. Adventure awaits around every corner. Reaching for a streaming mug of coffee and watching the sun reflect off the water is one of our favorite ways to slow down.

On The Road Edition is a collaborative coffee effort between the team at small-batch coffee roaster Marea Coffee and Ryan Woldt, the founder of the Roast! West Coast newsletter and host of the Coffee People and Coffee Smarter podcasts. Marea Coffee has long been a supporter of R!WC's effort to share the stories of the people in the coffee industry.

Likewise, Marea's focus on providing high-quality, accessible coffees sourced directly spoke to Woldt's desire to collaborate with brands that look to serve the needs of their community, particularly those who drink coffee outdoors. This coffee was developed to pair perfectly with an early morning dawn patrol checking waves, or out of a thermos on top of a mountain, or with friends around the campfire.

Marea's Joe Bettinger has been inviting me to join him on a Mexico coffee exploration for a long time, and this feels like the first step in that direction. He sourced several coffees he thought I'd be interested in, and this was the clear standout. I did my taste-testing at Carlsbad State Beach, just down the street, and it was easy to imagine someone on the Mexico coast doing the same. Coffee connects us across borders! Marea's other collaborations, like the one with local muralist Skye Walker, inspired confidence that the opportunity to collaborate shouldn't be passed up.

• Ryan Woldt

DESCRIPTION OF ON THE ROAD EDITION:

On The Road is a medium blend crafted from a single-origin coffee grown on Rainforest Alliance-certified Finca Muxbal in Chiapas, Mexico. The coffee is what we refer to as a daily driver. It's going to be accessible to an audience with a wide variety of taste preferences and smooth and consistent enough to drink every morning. Marea developed a coffee with a profile that balances dark chocolate with notes of apricot, green apple, and honey.

We’re stoked to collaborate with our friends, Ryan Woldt from Roast! West Coast and Jorge Gallardo from Finca Muxbal, in bringing coffee direct from the farm to your cup.

• Greyson Adams, Marea Coffee

Jorge Gallardo is the sixth generation of the family to operate Finca Muxbal since 1959. Part coffee farm, part ecological preserve, the farm’s name comes from the Mayan language native to the Chiapas region near the border of Guatemala. Muxbal translates to “place surrounded by clouds”—appropriate for a place located at 1,560 meters above sea level (5,118 ft.)

Coffee drinkers can order the On The Road Edition collaboration coffee blend at www.mareacoffee.com, or if they are in the SoCal area they can look for a bag at Seaside Market in Cardiff, CA.

When asked where he most liked to enjoy On The Road Edition coffee, Woldt said, "At the beach after a long bike ride or in the morning before a hike at camp—somewhere where I feel I've put in the work and earned it."

Roastar, Inc., a coffee packaging company based in Wausau, WI, provided the recycled packaging. The gusseted bag's all-HDPE film is store drop-off recyclable (#2) and has excellent moisture and oxygen barriers. On the Road is offered in a larger-than-normal size, allowing customers to fine-tune this coffee on their home brewing setup.

A 4-part collage showing the front, side panels, and back of a coffee package that features a sunset gradient through out from purple at the bottom fading up through pink, orange, and yellow. Text describes the coffee and links to the brands involved in the coffees production.
Recyclable packaging provide by Roastar, Inc., a long-time supporter of R!WC and small businesses.

Marea Coffee was born in San Diego, California. The company was created from the idea that everyone should be able to enjoy fresh, affordable cafe-quality coffee at home. Marea uses coffee to connect people through collaboration. Every bean they produce is hand-roasted in small batches to ensure customers receive the freshest and highest-quality coffee they can deliver. Their motto is to never settle and always enjoy the ritual of drinking coffee.

Ryan Woldt is the founder of Roast! West Coast, a coffee newsletter that is the home of the Coffee People and Coffee Smarter podcasts. He fell in love with the community and stories of coffee while dreaming of being allowed to pull an espresso at Coffee Cycle Roasting in San Diego, CA. With R!WC, he shares the stories of coffee professionals as they explore the entrepreneurship, creativity, passion, science, and innovation found in the expansive world of coffee.

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Shout out to our Presenting Sponsor Roastar, Inc. and their successes with the new Roastar Design Lab.

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