Devin · Roaster, designer, artist at heart
Beans are the medium.
Nearly six years of home roasting, and a return to the art world all under the same roof.
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For nearly six years I've been hobby roasting coffee. I started the journy of roasting on a hot air popcorn popper, which turned into a real home roasting air roaster. Then not long after I got the roaster I use today. The company started as a push into the gaming niche, now its developed into this passion of quality coffee and my artwork.
I fell in love with roasting because it's an art form. Every roast is a chance to bring out flavors you didn't know coffee could have. A chance to tell a story from the region they came from.
I come from world design, marketing, and Prepress Production(print). Honestly though, I'm an artist at heart. Content creation, digital work, analog pieces, and sometime furniture. My brain tends to send me on a side quest. However I found my love for art again, and the art is no longer a side quest. It's all part of the same project as the coffee.
Realms & Relics Coffee Studio is an art project that happens to be about exceptional coffee mixed with the art. We launch in early 2026 as a specialty roaster and now I'm painting and selling art work as well. Do I know everything about running a coffee business? Nope. Am I figuring it out? Absolutely.
The mission
Community-first companies win when they're real. I'd rather build something authentic with you than something polished and fake.
The medium
Drag the roast, hear what changes.
Same bean, three decisions. This is the part of the job that feels most like painting. I get to choose what to bring forward and what to let go.
Bright, floral, a little tea-like
Pulled just past first crack, while the origin is still doing the talking. Hardest one to get right, and the one that tells you most about the farm.
Caramel, stone fruit, balanced body
Where most of our single origins land. Sweet enough for a first cup, complex enough that the second one is different.
Cocoa, molasses, a little smoke
Taken far enough to change the subject. Built for milk, for cold mornings, and for the people who grew up on it.
Stretch goals
What the next year unlocks.
Every bag and every piece of art moves one of these. Real progress, not a launch countdown. (do my best to update these on a consitant basis)
A bigger roaster
The current drum caps every batch at 300g of beans. The new on ups it to 1.2kg (2.65lb).
Coffee and Art Booth
A full gallery and coffee cart in the same booth setup. I want to serve coffee as well as sell the artwork.
A room of our own
Community before brick and mortar, the end game. A real community 'third place' vibe location where coffee and art collide.
The setup
Hottop coffee roaster, a laptop spread sheet, and my sketchbook
Learning has been a manual process, listening, smelling and seeing the beans as they develop to build a roast profile. Once the profile is set its just minor observations and sketching while I roast the micro batchs.
Questions
The ones I get most.
We launched July 2026. jumping into local art fairs, and with online orders inside Minnesota starting the same week.
Not yet. Shipping stays Minnesota-only while the batches are this size. We will let you know when nation wide ordering comes.
Yes. Two and a half by three and a half inches, one of one, signed on the back. No prints in the originals case. I do run limited edition print runs on specific original pieces.
We are working up to that point. Right now a lot of the art fairs, and creater markets we will be attending we will be focused on art and roasted coffee beens. With the build up to a full service coffee cart addition at a point in the future!
Want something made?
Commissions, are somthing I'm planning on doing at some point. If you are interested in commisioning me sign up for the newsletter and I'll be sure to let you know when they are open!
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