About Us

We will use our deep experience in coffee quality, science, and fairness to provide special coffees. Your support means a lot as we find our footing!

Founders of Rumbling Rock

Dr. María Ximena Anleu Gil is a plant biologist in UC Davis where she researches seed plant reproduction. In addition to her scientific work, Ximena serves as the elected vice-president of a union representing 48,000 academic workers at the University of California. Ximena is from Guatemala with coffee trees behind her home.

Dr. Peter Lynagh was a teenage barista in Maryland, DC, Texas, and California. Peter's expertise exponentially deepened while a master roaster and quality control for George Howell. Peter improved various methods for analyzing plants as a UC Davis Ph.D. and postdoctoral fellow before co-founding Rumbling Rock.

Note on brewing

We optimize our roasts for paper filter pour over (aka drip). If you have a biweekly or monthly bean subscription, we can customize the roast for your brewing method, just e-mail some details to info@rumblingrock.com We just can't do smokey roasts.