Responsible Coffee Sourcing at Blue Bottle

How data helps drive our sustainable coffee sourcing

Photo credit: Enveritas

In 2024, Blue Bottle Coffee renewed its responsible coffee sourcing credentials, achieving Enveritas's Responsibly Sourced mark for 94 percent of purchases with another 6 percent verified or certified as compliant with the Coffee Sustainability Reference Code.

Guided by a commitment to sustainable sourcing, Blue Bottle has long offered price premiums to producers based on coffee quality, consistently paying above market price, and also supports community projects at origin—from agronomy programs to farmworker support initiatives.

Since 2020, Blue Bottle has worked to protect and deepen this commitment to sustainable coffee sourcing through data. Specifically, Blue Bottle partnered with Enveritas, a nonprofit that catalogs and evaluates farm practices against environmental, social, and economic sustainability standards.

Enveritas verifies conditions on coffee farms in regions or supply streams where Blue Bottle sources coffee, helping us to collaborate with producers to drive continuous improvement around core sustainability metrics.

To provide perspective, Enveritas shares reports with producers that compare farm results to regional trends, making data a powerful learning tool and foundation for producers and roasters like Blue Bottle to understand strengths and areas for growth.

In 2023, Blue Bottle first achieved the Enveritas Responsibly Sourced mark, an accomplishment made possible by investing in projects to remediate risk in each sourcing region. 

Today, Blue Bottle’s responsible sourcing credentials reflect our commitment to traceability and continuous improvement in sustainable coffee practices.