Our Story

How it started

The Hanukkah Coffee Box began with a simple idea: eight nights of Hanukkah, eight different coffees, each from a different roastery. Hanukkah is the festival of lights, and specialty coffee has its own kind of lighter roast — bright, delicate, full of flavor. Pairing the two felt like the most natural thing in the world.

What started as a small project for friends has grown into a yearly tradition. Each winter we taste through dozens of coffees from roasters around the country, searching for eight that tell a story together — a progression of origins, processes, and flavors meant to be discovered one night at a time.

Discovery, one night at a time

We ship every box without tasting notes on the bags. Each coffee arrives as a blank page, so you can taste it without expectation or judgement, then read its story the morning you open it. It’s the discovery aspect of a coffee subscription distilled into eight memorable mornings — a different roaster, origin, and flavor profile for each candle you light.

The festival of lights

We lean into lighter roasts to honor Hanukkah as the festival of lights. That means fruit-forward coffees, interesting processing, and beans that showcase where they came from rather than how dark they were roasted. Every year brings new roasters, new origins, and a few surprises — but the heart of the box stays the same: eight small moments of light in the darkest part of the year.