Our Veteran-Owned Coffee Story

Big Guns Coffee is a Marine veteran-owned, father-daughter business founded by T. Shane Johnson and his daughter Charli. Our story brings together the coffee you can enjoy today and an indoor cultivation pilot we are building for the future.

Our everyday coffee, roasted to order

Our everyday online coffees are sourced from coffee-growing regions worldwide and roasted to order. These coffees are separate from our indoor pilot. Shop the current coffee collection and choose the available format that fits your routine.

Our next chapter: indoor hydroponic coffee

Our original indoor hydroponic coffee pilot is in Tryon, North Carolina. The first harvest is not yet available. Follow the work, watch the original pilot video, and join the first-harvest waitlist for updates.

The waitlist is for updates; it does not take payment, reserve coffee or promise a harvest date.

Watch the original pilot

Watch the Big Guns Coffee indoor pilot video. The video documents our pilot story; it does not describe the origin of every coffee currently sold online.

How we measured this

We do not publish a numerical water-savings claim here. A meaningful comparison needs a defined baseline, measurement period, system boundary, water inputs and outputs, and the amount of coffee produced. Until those measurements and their methodology are supplied, no percentage is presented as a proven result.

Follow the family and the coffee

Read our founders’ story in the Journal, explore subscriptions, or get in touch. Your first bag is covered by our replacement promise within 30 days; read the details.