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Greater Goods Roasting Co.

160 McGregor Ln, Dripping Springs, TX 78620, USA

SPECIALTY

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Greater Goods runs its roastery and tasting room out of 160 McGregor Lane in Dripping Springs, twenty miles southwest of downtown Austin in the Texas Hill Country. The company is run by wife-and-husband team Khanh Trang and Trey Cobb, who founded the operation in 2015. Roasting happens here in small batches, with sourcing and quality control under the same roof. A portion of every bag goes to non-profit partners, both locally and at origin. The space welcomes drop-in visitors weekday mornings. Single origins make up most of the lineup. Espresso is dialed for nuance over weight. The roastery doubles as a training center for wholesale partners across central Texas. Order a single-origin bag from the rotation if you want to take what Greater Goods is roasting this week home. Order the house espresso if you came for a shot in the room where the beans were roasted that morning.

About Austin

Genuine Joe Coffeehouse opened on North Loop Boulevard in 1995, eight years before the city had a recognizable specialty register and well before the tech migration that reshaped the eastern half of town. Austin's coffee history runs through that opening, through Mozart's Coffee on Lake Austin (1991), and through Caffe Medici, which Daniel Vaughn founded in West Campus in 2006 and which trained a generation of baristas who later opened their own bars. The arc is shorter than Seattle's or Portland's, but it is unusually concentrated. Most of what defines the city today was built between 2006 and 2018.

Cuvee Coffee, founded by Mike McKim in 1998, is the roaster that gave Austin a wholesale spine. The East Austin roastery on Webberville Road still supplies a meaningful share of the city's third wave bars and is the reason Austin baristas talk about origin work in the same vocabulary as their counterparts in Brooklyn. Houndstooth Coffee, opened by Sean Henry on Congress Avenue in 2011, was the first bar in town to put cup quality, water, and bar choreography on the same level as a New York or San Francisco operator. Greater Goods Coffee Roasters, started by Khanh Trang in 2015, took a quieter route and now runs one of the most consistent roasting programs in Texas.

The contemporary scene reads as a network rather than a hierarchy. Patika Coffee operates several locations across South Lamar and downtown. Wright Bros. Brew & Brew, on East Fourth, runs coffee in the morning and beer at night and treats both with equal weight. Smaller bars in East Austin and Hyde Park trade in single origin lots from the same handful of importers used in Los Angeles and Chicago. Prices have risen with the city: a flat white in 2026 lands at six to seven dollars in most central neighborhoods.

Austin is also a music city, a tech city, and a college town, and its coffee culture absorbs all three. Bars near the University of Texas keep long study hours. East Side rooms double as gallery space and venue. The Domain in the north has built a polished retail register that mirrors what happened to South Congress a decade earlier. The result is a city where the coffee belongs to several constituencies at once and where the strongest bars manage to serve all of them without flattening the cup.