Armenian Cardamom Coffee Roasted Near Seattle, WA
SEVAK Coffee · Armenian-Inspired Cardamom Coffee
SEVAK · 12 oz
SEVAK Armenian coffee — 12 oz bag of cardamom dark roast
SEVAK Coffee · Armenian-Inspired

SEVAK Armenian Coffee

Cardamom dark roast, ground fine for the jezve — 12 oz
★★★★★ 5.0 — loved by Armenian coffee drinkers
$21.00 / 12 oz bag (340g)

If your grandmother's kitchen had a smell, it was this: a small-batch dark roast laced with real cardamom, ground a touch finer than espresso — built for the jezve, but at home in a pour-over, phin, percolator, or espresso machine. This is coffee the way it has crossed the Armenian table for generations: slowly, and never alone.

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Small-batch roasted
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Roast
Dark
Flavor
Cardamom-spiced
Grind
Fine — between Turkish & espresso
Bean
100% Arabica
Size
12 oz · 340g
The Method · Watch

The ritual, in motion

Four steps, seven minutes, no machines. This is the slowest — and best — cup you'll make all week.

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  1. Cold water & coffee

    One heaping spoon of fine SEVAK per demitasse into the jezve, with cold water — never pre-boiled.

  2. Low & slow

    Set over the lowest flame. Stir once, then leave it. Patience is the only ingredient that matters now.

  3. The rising foam

    As the soorj climbs to the rim, lift it off just before it boils over. That golden foam is the prize.

  4. Pour & share

    Pour gently, foam first, let the grounds settle — and serve with something sweet, and good company.

Why This Coffee Exists

Some coffees wake you up.This one takes you home.

There's a moment every Armenian knows. The jezve starts to whisper on the stove, the cardamom lifts off the foam, and suddenly you're eight years old again — in a kitchen where the coffee was thick, the stories were thicker, and nobody was allowed to leave the table early.

Most coffee is fuel. Soorj is a ceremony. It's the cup your grandmother read your future in, the one that sealed engagements and settled arguments, the one that turned neighbors into family. When we couldn't find that cup anywhere in America — not the right grind, not the right roast, not the cardamom — we decided to roast it ourselves.

SEVAK is that cup: 100% Arabica, roasted dark in small batches near Seattle, folded with real cardamom, and ground fine for the jezve. One bag brews about 34 traditional cups — a month of slow mornings for less than two drive-thru lattes a week. And every order sends $1 to Teach For Armenia.

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Inside the Bag

Made for the ritual, not the rush

Four things worth knowing before you brew.

01 — Aroma

Cardamom

Real cardamom folded into a dark roast for the warm, floral scent of an Armenian kitchen.

02 — Texture

Fine Grind

Ground between Turkish powder and espresso — fine enough to bloom in a jezve, ready for any brewer.

03 — Roast

Dark & Bold

Roasted deep and even for a full body that carries spice and stands up to sugar.

04 — Format

12 oz Bag

340g of fresh small-batch coffee, resealable with a one-way valve to keep it lively.

Where SEVAK sits on the grind scale

Turkish · powder SEVAK Espresso Pour-over
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Ready when the jezve is

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Beyond the Jezve

No jezve? No problem.

The jezve is our favorite — but SEVAK is happy almost anywhere in your kitchen.

Our favorite

Jezve / Cezve

The traditional Armenian way — fine grind simmered slowly into a rich, foamy soorj.

Pour-over

Clean and aromatic; back the grind off just a touch for an even draw.

Percolator

Old-school and bold — a stovetop perc leans into the dark roast.

Phin filter

The Vietnamese phin drips a thick, syrupy cup that loves the cardamom.

Espresso

Pull it as a spiced espresso — intense, fragrant, unforgettable.

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What people are saying

5.0★★★★★verified reviews
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The Origins · Armenian? Ethiopian?

From Ethiopia to Armenia

One cup, six lands, a thousand years — and the honest answer is, it's both.

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Ethiopia · c. 850 CE (legend)

Born in the forests of Kaffa

Coffee's wild ancestor grows in the highland forests of Kaffa, in present-day Ethiopia. The beloved tale of Kaldi — a goatherd who saw his flock grow lively after eating the red cherries — is almost certainly a later legend, first set in print by Antoine Faustus Nairon in Rome in 1671. The plant itself, though, is genuinely Ethiopian by birth.

Source: Kaldi (Wikipedia) ↗
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Yemen · 15th century

From cherry to cup

The earliest credible evidence of coffee as a drink comes from the Sufi monasteries of Yemen in the 15th century, where worshippers brewed qahwa to stay awake through night-long prayers. From the port of Mocha it spread north to Mecca, Cairo and Damascus.

Source: History of coffee (Wikipedia) ↗
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Constantinople · 1555

The Ottoman coffeehouse

By 1555 the first coffeehouses opened in Constantinople's Tahtakale district — run, the Ottoman chronicler Peçevi records, by Hakam of Aleppo and Shams of Damascus. One legendary early house, Kiva Han, is remembered as the work of two Armenian brothers. This thick, unfiltered, finely-ground style is the one Armenians would carry home.

Source: History of coffee (Wikipedia) ↗
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Armenia · the table

Soorj, the jezve & cardamom

Living within and beside the Ottoman world, Armenians made the ritual their own. They call it soorj (սուրճ): ground to a fine powder, simmered slowly in a long-handled copper jezve, often perfumed with cardamom, and finished by reading the grounds left in the cup. Coffee became a language of hospitality — never rushed, never taken alone.

Source: Armenian coffee (Wikipedia) ↗
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Vienna · 1685

Armenians give coffee to Europe

Vienna's first coffeehouse was opened in 1685 by Johannes Diodato (Diodato Theodat), an Armenian merchant granted the city's exclusive privilege to serve coffee. From Yerevan to Venice to Vienna, Armenian traders helped carry the ritual deep into Europe.

Source: Viennese coffee house culture (Wikipedia) ↗
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Seattle, WA · today

SEVAK carries it forward

We roast in small batches near Seattle and grind fine — cardamom and all — so a ritual that traveled from Ethiopia, through the Ottoman world, to the Armenian table can live on in yours. Named in the spirit of the poet Paruyr Sevak, every order sends $1 home to Teach For Armenia.

"Born wild in Ethiopia, first brewed in Yemen, made a ritual at the Armenian table — a thousand-year story in every cup."

Sources: History of coffee · Kaldi · Viennese coffee house culture (Wikipedia, accessed 2026).

Your Chapter Starts Here

A thousand years of ritual.
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Every Cup Gives Back

A dollar home, with every order

$1 from every order supports Teach For Armenia, bringing dedicated teachers to children across the homeland. Coffee that tastes like home — and helps build it.