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Eli and Jen Coleman, a husband-and-wife team air roasting coffee in Bensenville, Illinois, since 2020. Writing about us, booking a show or planning a podcast? Everything you need is here.
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Talk to Eli and Jen
For interviews, samples, quotes or a visit to a market booth, send us a note on our contact page with your outlet and your deadline. It goes straight to Jen.
Watch
Our interviews
May 2, 2025 · 18 min
The Locals with Ryan Glatzhofer
Eli on leaving private investigating to roast coffee, and what air roasting is.
May 14, 2026 · 28 min
Relay Commerce, Founder Stories
Jen and Eli on launching two weeks before COVID and finding a home at farmers markets.
Coverage
We've been featured
Jen quoted as a coffee expert
Stories about Gigawatt
Jen and Eli interviewed. Gigawatt is the example behind three of the five tips.READ IT →
Catalyst (CIM)How we built our community through email and in-person events.READ IT →
We're an example in a story on pricing, with Jen on why some of our prices end in 33.READ IT →
Coffee CraftersThe company that builds our air roasters on how Gigawatt started and why we air roast.READ IT →
Our subscription app on how we grew subscriptions 7.5% in six weeks.READ IT →
The Herald-NewsOur booth at the new Lockport market, with James from our team quoted.READ IT →
"Water temperature consistency matters more than almost any other feature."Jen Coleman, quoted in Taste of Home's "7 Best Coffee Makers of 2026"
Gift guides & reviews
Picked for 19 gift guides
Holiday, Mother's Day, Father's Day and summer guides have picked our sample packs, gift subscriptions and cold brew. Newest first.
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Eli and Jen Coleman
Eli Coleman
Co-Founder
Eli Coleman co-founded Gigawatt Coffee Roasters with his wife, Jen, in February 2020 and runs operations: production, green coffee buying, the team, and the logistics behind 250+ markets and events a year.
Before coffee, Eli spent years as a private investigator, traveling the country on asbestos litigation cases. When he set out to start his own business, he chose coffee: he researched roasting equipment, talked with roasters across Chicagoland and beyond, and built Gigawatt around fluid bed air roasting.
Jen Coleman
Co-Founder
Jen Coleman co-founded Gigawatt Coffee Roasters with her husband, Eli, in February 2020 and leads the business side: brand, growth, strategy and finance. She writes the Gigawatt Grounds blog, serves on the NerdWallet Small-Business Advisory Board, and is a recurring guest lecturer for entrepreneurship students at Dominican University's Brennan School of Business.
About Gigawatt
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Gigawatt Coffee Roasters is a husband-and-wife coffee roaster in Bensenville, Illinois, founded in February 2020 by Eli and Jen Coleman. Gigawatt air roasts all of its coffee on Coffee Crafters fluid bed roasters: instead of tumbling in a hot drum, the beans ride on a bed of hot air, for a cleaner, smoother cup that's never bitter and never burnt. An estimated 1% of roasters air roast. Gigawatt sells three ways: online at gigawattcoffeeroasters.com, through coffee subscriptions and one-time orders, with more than 3,000 five-star customer reviews; at its booth at 250+ farmers markets and events a year across Chicagoland; and through wholesale to cafés, offices and other businesses.
Quick facts
- Founded
- February 2020, two weeks before COVID
- Founders
- Eli and Jen Coleman, husband and wife, co-founders
- Based in
- Bensenville, Illinois, in the Chicago suburbs
- How we roast
- Fluid bed air roasting on a Coffee Crafters Valenta air roaster
- Air roasters
- About 1% of roasters are estimated to air roast
- Markets and events
- 250+ a year across Chicagoland
- Reviews
- 3,000+ five-star reviews on our website
- How we sell
- Online subscriptions and one-time orders (ships in 1–3 days), farmers markets, and wholesale for cafés and offices
- Best seller
- Kite & Key Blend, a medium dark roast
- Our promise
- Never bitter, never burnt
How air roasting works: air roasted coffee, explained. Our story: about Gigawatt.
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Press contact
Talk to Eli and Jen
For interviews, samples, quotes or a visit to a market booth, send us a note on our contact page with your outlet and your deadline. It goes straight to Jen.