Press Hit: Costco Connection Celestial Sips

Copper Moon Coffee is featured in the February issue of Costco Connection! We're thrilled to share our story and mission with even more coffee lovers. Read the article below and discover what makes our coffee out of this world! 🌙☕

"Copper Moon is on a mission to provide coffee lovers with out-of-this-world tastes. There’s never been a better time to be a coffee lover, given how many brands are on the market. Yet if you’re an astronomy fan, especially one who lives for an eclipse, put Copper Moon Coffee on your radar.

Linking coffee to an eclipse might seem strange at first, but there is a good reason. A copper moon is a brief phenomenon when the full moon, sun and Earth are perfectly aligned, turning the moon a coppery color. That alignment inspired the coffee company’s name. 

“We use the analogy of perfect alignment to describe our coffee,” says Brad Gutwein, CEO and co-owner of Copper Moon Coffee and a Costco member. “It’s perfectly roasted, high-grade coffee that’s smooth, never bitter.” 

Gutwein and brother Cary bought Copper Moon in 2007. It was a Kentucky-based coffee company that Marsh Supermarkets had acquired and moved to Indianapolis, renaming it Copper Moon. The brothers had previously been in the bird food industry where Gutwein even created a private-label, bird- friendly coffee, meaning that the coffee is grown in a way that preserves birds’ habitats. Not only were they coffee fans, coffee was also a natural fit. “Like bird food, coffee is an agricultural product, it’s global and it’s a packaged product,” he says.

Yet the brothers knew they had to do something to stand out. So, they bought the best roasting equipment they could and focused on sourcing high-grade beans to create what Gutwein describes as “evenly roasted, uniquely smooth” coffee they could sell at affordable prices.

Copper Moon donates $5,000 annually to the International Women’s Coffee Alliance, which partners with small farms run by women in 35 countries. That’s just one facet of its sustainability initiative, which includes shipping burlap coffee sacks to Malawi for people to store maize.

Does Gutwein have a favorite coffee? “You’ll find Stargazer in my cup every morning,” he says. He’s not alone, as Stargazer is the company’s most popular blend because, after all, who doesn’t love stargazing?

Copper Moon is enthusiastic about more than coffee. For example, every year, the company offers a $15,000 scholarship through its Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF).

“We’re passionate about space exploration,” says Copper Moon CEO and co-owner Brad Gutwein, adding that when ASF’s leadership team visits Copper Moon’s headquarters, an astronaut often accompanies them."