About Us
A roastery and a kitchen,
both run by one family.
Roasting coffee and baking pound cake from a corner of Goose Creek, South Carolina, since the year we decided real cups of coffee shouldn’t be hard to find.
Our Story
It started with two things we couldn’t stop making.
My name is Stewart Martin, and I am the owner and founder of Stew’s Brews & Chews. I operate a coffee roastery and cottage baking business in Goose Creek, SC. My business was aptly named by my son who tied together my passions for roasting coffee and baking.
The purpose of my brand is to educate my customers in coffee topics, and to provide the opportunity to experience the joy of coffee consumption.
I started roasting my own coffee eleven years ago when I started questioning how fresh my coffee really was. Soon after, I purchased a Whirley Pop popcorn maker, 5 lbs of green coffee beans and I turned up the heat on my gas grill. My new venture took me about 4 lbs worth of beans for me to get comfortable with the process, and I was roasting the freshest coffee for myself.
My inspiration to start the business came from my former dentist after I brought her some of my coffee. She said, “If you’re not selling this, you need to.”
“Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t bring to your own table.”
, The one rule we won’t break
How It Gets Made
Two crafts, one week.
Mondays
Roast day.
We bring in green beans from a small handful of importers we trust, people who can tell you the farm, the elevation, the processing method, and the names of the families doing the work. Every Monday we roast through the week’s orders, batch by batch, tasting at every stage. The bags get sealed the same afternoon and labeled with the roast date. Every week we attend local farmers markets to get it fresh to your counter.
Thursdays
Bake day.
Butter, sugar, eggs, flour, vanilla, and not a lot else. The kitchen smells like brown butter for most of Thursday morning. Each pound cake is mixed in a stand mixer one loaf at a time, no industrial sheets, no shortcuts. Glaze gets poured while the cake is still hot. Throughout the week the loaves are boxed up and ready for the farmers market or local pickup.
What we won’t do
A short list of nos.
No stale beans.
Every bag is roasted the week it ships. If we can’t fulfill an order with coffee under 14 days from roast, we hold it until the next batch.
No shortcuts in the kitchen.
No box mix, no oils standing in for butter, no shelf stable substitutes. If the recipe calls for it, it’s in the cake.
No anonymous beans.
We can tell you the country, region, and farm for every coffee we sell. If we don’t know it, we don’t roast it.
Where We Are
A Lowcountry roastery.
Goose Creek isn’t a coffee town. It’s a Navy town, a young family town, a hot summer night on the porch kind of town. That’s part of why we like roasting here. We get to introduce people to what fresh small batch coffee tastes like for the first time. Some weeks we set up a booth at a farmers market. Some weeks we head out to an office or an event. Most weeks we just bag coffee, ice cakes, and meet up for small talk with the regulars.
Come by one of the local farmers markets or order online from anywhere; whatever works for you. We’d love to put a cup in your hand.
Ready to try a bag?
Pick a roast and we’ll grind it however you like, or grab a pound cake while you’re at it.