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🎃 Scarecrow Weekend at Coroco Coffee

Your Fall Coffee Headquarters in Downtown St. CharlesOctober 11–13, 2025 There’s nothing quite like fall in St. Charles. The leaves are turning, the riverwalk is glowing, and Scarecrow Weekend is back and better than ever. This year, Coroco Coffee is proud ...

Let’s talk coffee grind size!

Being part of my coffee friends' and fans’ coffee journey is one of the best parts of my career. I like to think that at COROCO we make specialty coffee accessible for everyone. So when a customer called with a ...

Meet Karen

Karen Weckerly, Founder and CEO of Coroco Coffee Roaster Collective, had an unconventional path into coffee. Trained as a professional violinist, she spent years performing and teaching before discovering coffee roasting. What started as curiosity quickly became something more. After the ...

Behind The Scenes: Roast Development at COROCO

COROCO® is proud to roast all of the coffee we sell in store and online in-house in Sycamore, IL. Some of your favorites might be: Diner Coffee blends, Cask'd wine & spirit infused Coffee, and Hi! Hope single origin coffees. ...

DIY Coffee Bar at Home

Hi Coffee Friends! We have been talking a great deal about focusing on the good and happy things around us in the world lately, looking for silver linings and such. Rather than focus on what options are more limited, we can ...

When Coffee & Chocolate Meet

A Guest Blog By Chef Rudy Galindo This week, we’re so excited to have Chef Rudy Galindo join us as our Guest Blogger! Chef Rudy has been a local, private chef in Northern Illinois since 2015, and is a 2002 graduate ...

Coffee For Good

“Study after study has confirmed that there is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole—women and men alike— than one which involves women as central players. No other policy is as likely to raise economic productivity, lower ...

Diner Coffee Backstory

Hi Friends!  We thought that it would be fun to share a little of the backstory to some of our coffee brands, since we don’t always get a chance to visit with each other these days. First up, is Ryan and ...