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Our Story

It all started in a garage...

...just like Nirvana, just like Apple Computers.

Ok, maybe not just like those guys. Nonetheless, our story is still pretty interesting. Founder and head roaster Brandon Litun started roasting coffee in the Fraser Valley BC in 2015. In his garage. With a popcorn popper. It was a way to decompress after a hard day's work as a social worker.

Turns out, he was pretty good at it and it was incredibly therapeutical. Soon, friends and family started asking to try the beans he was roasting. That evolved into a legit business selling bags of coffee to local cafes and gift shops.

In 2021, we opened our Chilliwack Cafe and things took off from there! Today, we are still 100% Canadian owned and independently operated in the Fraser Valley, BC on the unceded territory of the S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō) people and the Pelólxw Tribe.

Check out the video below featuring Brandon himself telling the SG Story.

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SG TRIVIA

Click on the questions below to reveal the answers and learn a little bit more about us. Gotta specific question? Let us know!

Last year we roasted over 50 TONNES of coffee beans! That's the equivalent of 2,500 full grown beavers - which we would never roast because they are adorable.

Nope! It's only about 250 square feet! We like to think we are the one of the smallest roasteries in the World at our volume level.

By FAR it's the latte with a whoppin' 30,784 sold in our cafe in the last year. People love'em. In the Summer our coffee slush is VERY popular and in the cooler months people can't resist the pumpkin spice and egg nog lattes.

Every dang day! Sure, it's for freshness, but coffee is actually at it's peak about a week or two after it's roasted. It needs some time to off-gas and settle down. Fresh coffee is still great though! With such a tiny space, we can't really keep a huge backstock of coffee anyway, so roasting daily works for us and YOU.

Honestly, it's just two words that sounded cool. A "smoking gun" is also a reference to evidence or proof, as in "the proof is in the beans!" Maybe it's also a subconscious X-Files reference. Who knows!?

Some of it! We work with a lot of small hold farmers and those designations can be too costly for small operations.

There's a lot more to this answer, but generally we focus on having a relationship with the farms we source from and relying on our import partners to ensure their practices are sustainable and their people are treated well.

You can learn more about our sourcing here.