History

Late one rainy night......In 1981, R.C. Beall was sitting in an all night diner in the beautiful Glacier Park area of Montana having a cup of the worst coffee and pondering how to make a living in this incredible part of the world. Could roasting and selling a great cup of coffee be the answer? As fate would have it, R.C. discovered an old roaster and five bags of green coffee in a barn near Whitefish, Montana. He bought the roaster and began the journey of learning how to roast coffee to bring out the best characteristics of the different beans. Writing the results of each roast in spiral notebooks and learning which temperatures brought out the best tastes for the different variety of beans his hobby soon became his passion and Montana Coffee Traders was born. We pride ourselves on roasting and selling the very best coffee the world has to offer.

Montana Coffee Traders has grown over the years to include a cafe and coffee bar in Kalispell, Montana, a store in downtown Whitefish as well as the original roaster and store on Highway 93 South in Whitefish, Montana.

We still roast our coffees using these recipes and our passion for roasting and selling the very best coffee the world has to offer remains our mission. Drop by for a visit and you will be immersed in the smells and tastes of freshly roasted coffee.

In 1994, R.C. traveled to Austin, Texas to open a Texas Coffee Traders. Texas offered a good location for shipping fresh coffee to accounts that were too far away from Montana to guarantee freshness and it brought him back to his home state where he could be closer to his family. While visiting Austin, R.C. re-met an old high school friend, Beth Eubanks, and Beth and R.C. were married in 1994.

Beth and R.C. travel between Montana and Texas monthly and keep their connection to the communities that they love strong. Our mission at Coffee Traders is to roast and sell the best coffee available anywhere in the world, have fun doing it, try to contribute positively to the communities we live in and the earth that supports us. We want our employees to enjoy their jobs and benefit from being part of the Coffee Traders “Bean Team”.

Wholesale inquiries are welcome! E-mail us at rc@coffeetraders.com or call us at 1-800-343-4875.