Pre-launch · First roast this season
Two bags of specialty coffee a month, roasted after you order. One you can make half asleep, one worth being awake for.
$38/month
When checkout opens:$38 per month, free US shipping. Renews monthly until you cancel. Cancel online anytime.
Card checkout is not switched on yet. This button adds you to the list instead, and nothing is charged until you choose to pay.
The hour
Which is the whole premise. Not productivity, not a routine someone optimized — just the part of the day that has not been claimed yet.
There is a window at the start of the day that belongs to whoever gets up for it. The house is still. The phone has not started. Nothing has been asked of you yet and nothing will be for another forty minutes, and the only decision in front of you is how long to let the water sit off the boil.
That window is the entire reason this club exists. Not productivity, not a routine someone optimized, not a mug with a slogan on it. Just the acknowledgement that the hour is worth having, and that it is noticeably better with coffee someone actually roasted for you this week.
Most coffee subscriptions treat the morning as a logistics problem and hand you a dashboard. Pick a roast level, pick a frequency, pick from six assortments, rate what you got, adjust your profile. You end up administering a coffee account instead of drinking coffee.
We send two bags. One is the forgiving one, for the mornings you are running on autopilot. One is the interesting one, for the mornings you are not. That shape does not change, which is what makes it a ritual rather than another thing to manage.
You should not have to log in to enjoy a cup of coffee.
What arrives
Green coffee is seasonal, so the origins rotate through the year. The pair does not: there is always one everyday bag and one with something to say. Below is the shape of a typical month, written the way a roaster's sheet reads.
Bag one
The one you make half awake
Forgiving. It still tastes right if you eyeball the grounds and forget the timer.
Bag two
For the morning you are actually awake for
Bright and floral enough that you will notice it before you have said a word to anyone.
These are the profiles we select to, not a promise of one named lot. When a harvest moves we tell you what changed and why, on the card in the box, with the roast date printed on every bag.
What we commit to
We are pre-launch, so we have no reviews to show you and we are not going to invent any. What we can give you is a short list of claims that are falsifiable the moment a box lands on your step.
Not a best-before eighteen months out. The day it came off the roaster. If a bag reaches you more than ten days after that date, tell us and the month is free.
Every card names who roasted it and where. A coffee club that hides its roasters is hiding something about its roasters.
The three facts that actually predict what is in the cup, written plainly instead of as a paragraph about a sunrise.
Harvests move and lots run out. When the pair shifts we say which bag changed and why, on the card, rather than quietly swapping it.
How it works
Whole bean or ground. That is the only question the club ever asks you, and Stripe asks it once.
Stripe asks you once, at checkout, in a dropdown. That is the only decision the club asks you to make. No quiz, no taste profile, no account.
Your two bags are roasted after you order, not pulled off a shelf, and go out within three business days. Free shipping anywhere in the United States.
Same date, $38, two new bags built to the same pair of profiles. Skip a month, switch the grind or stop entirely from the link in every receipt.
Gifting
Three months, one charge of $114, and then it ends by itself. No card is stored for the person receiving it, they are never billed, and there is nothing for them to remember to cancel in March — which is the quiet reason most gift subscriptions are a slightly rude present.
When checkout opens:$114 once. Three deliveries, then it stops. Nothing renews, nothing to cancel.
Card checkout is not switched on yet. This button adds you to the list instead, and nothing is charged until you choose to pay.
Pricing
A coffee subscription at $38 a month, or a three-month coffee gift subscription at $114 once. Shipping is inside both prices, not added at the end: no ranges, no tiers to compare, no savings math to do.
Start here
The club
$38per month, shipping included
Two 12 oz bags, roasted to order
Two bags is roughly 44 cups, which is a month of two-cup mornings with a little room for a guest.
When checkout opens:$38 per month, free US shipping. Renews monthly until you cancel. Cancel online anytime.
Card checkout is not switched on yet. This button adds you to the list instead, and nothing is charged until you choose to pay.
Gifting
$114once, nothing renews
Three deliveries of two 12 oz bags
A gift that stops on its own. They are never billed, and you are not billed a second time.
When checkout opens:$114 once. Three deliveries, then it stops. Nothing renews, nothing to cancel.
Card checkout is not switched on yet. This button adds you to the list instead, and nothing is charged until you choose to pay.
Card checkout is not open yet — the roaster account goes live first, and we would rather take no money than take it early. Both prices above are final, shipping included, and the buttons put you on the list so you get the link before anyone else.
Not this morning
One email when the club opens, one when the first bags are in the post, and that is the whole plan. No newsletter, no drip sequence, no sharing the list. Unsubscribe sits at the top of the email where you can find it.
We would rather send two bags you finish than four you forget.
One email when we open, one when we ship. Nothing else, and you can leave with one click.
Questions
Anything missing? Write to hello@lanternhour.adelos.ai and a person answers within one business day.
$38 a month, with US shipping included, on the same date each month until you cancel. There is no joining fee, no minimum term and no price that changes after the first box.
A three-month gift is a single charge of $114. It is not a subscription: three deliveries happen and then it stops on its own.
Every receipt contains a customer portal link. Open it and press cancel — two clicks, effective immediately. The same screen lets you skip one month, change the grind, swap the card or move the address.
You can also reply CANCEL to any email from us and a person does it the same business day. There is no deadline buried in a help page, no phone-only cancellation and nobody will try to talk you out of it.
No, and that is deliberate. Choosing is the part of a coffee subscription that quietly becomes a chore, and it is why people cancel. We pick the pair: one forgiving everyday bag and one that rewards attention.
What you do choose is grind. If you want to hand-pick lots every month, a roaster's own webshop will serve you better than we will, and we would rather say so.
Two 12 oz bags is about 680 g of coffee, which at a standard 15 g dose is roughly 44 cups. For one person drinking two cups a morning that is most of a month; for two people it is about three weeks.
If you run out early, email us and we will move your date earlier rather than sell you a bigger tier you did not ask for.
Whole bean if you own a grinder, because coffee starts losing aroma within about fifteen minutes of grinding. Ground if you do not, and there is nothing wrong with that; tell us your brewer in the checkout note and we will grind for it.
You can change the setting any month from the portal link in your receipt.
Tell us within fourteen days of delivery and we will either refund that month or send a replacement bag of the other profile, whichever you prefer. You do not need to post anything back — returning coffee helps nobody.
The full policy is on the refunds page, in plain words.
Not yet. Our roasting partner fulfils within the US only, so checkout collects US shipping addresses. Coffee loses more than it gains sitting in international transit anyway.
If you want us to tell you when that changes, join the list on this page and say so in a reply.
Not at launch. We would rather open with two bags we are confident in than four we are not. Decaf is the first thing we will add, and a good decaf takes finding.
Reply to your welcome email asking for decaf and we will count you. That count is how we decide.