• Make affordable, coffee shop quality coffee at home.

Starting our coffee journey in 2016, we wanted to create the perfect "daily drinker"

Before we opened our Coffee House in Draper, Utah, our goal was to create the best "daily drinker," where the same blend of beans had a well-balanced taste no matter how they were prepared (such as standard drip, espresso, pour over, and cold brew).

For people to want to consume our coffee on a daily basis, we knew that our coffee needed to be developed and prepared in a way that was authentically-pleasing from the very first sip.

Read on to learn more about our coffee journey.

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Turn your Kitchen into your own Coffee Shop.

With the knowledge and experience of what it takes to craft "crowd-pleasing" drinks in a real coffee shop, our goal is to give you the ingredients and resources you need to create the same quality drinks at home! Let us help you become your own Clever Barista.

Our House Coffee Recipe

We were tired of coffee that tasted too weak or burnt.

Can you relate to this?

With the goal of creating a strong, local community around our coffee, we knew that we needed to figure out what separated good coffee from great coffee.

After two years of coffee research before we opened our doors, we realized that the coffee at larger chains (who shall not be named) were often too weak or tasted burnt.

We found a phenomenal coffee roasting partner who had the knowledge and experience to help us develop our unique Signature Blend that is consistently delicious (and never burnt).

Before we opened, we traveled to seattle, hawaii, and london to explore what makes coffee more than just a seed (bean) inside a fruit (cherry).

We partnered with a local coffee roaster with over 25 years of experience to help us develop our proprietary, four-region, signature blend coffee that is bold, smooth, and never burnt.

After we opened in 2018, we went through more than 2,500 pounds of our signature blend coffee beans making drinks such as house coffee (drip), espresso, cold brew, lattes, and chemex pour overs.

5-Star Review on Yelp

"Reviews did not disappoint! Coffee was so good and the staff was so nice. I got the house coffee with a splash of coconut milk and two pumps of vanilla and it was so smooth and not at all bitter. Definitely recommend!"

Julia P.

5-Star Review on Google

"The Clever Bean is a super cute, pleasant coffee shop... The owners were kind a courteous, but very professional as well... My partner and I both got the cold brew which was such a lovely aromatic blend..."

Clifford K.

5-Star Review on Yelp

"I'm a coffee snob. This coffee is seriously GOOD... The cold brew is my favorite and it's so good I can drink it black."

Kaitlin C.

5-Star Review on Google

"This place sells exceptional coffee, including one of the best vanilla lattes I've ever had, and I've had many..."

Sam L.

5-Star Review on Yelp

"I came in from Seattle to visit family and never expected to find such an excellent latte!!! Very high quality ingredients!"

John B.

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Some of our clever creations

We developed some unique menu offerings for our Coffee House, inspired by our research and experimentation over the years. In the future, we will be coming out with more ingredients and recipes for you to enjoy at home.

Affogato (vanilla ice cream + chocolate sauce + chocolate whipped cream + double espresso) served in a martini glass

Royal hot chocolate (top-shelf drinking chocolate + steamed milk + chocolate whipped cream + chocolate shavings)

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Our Coffee Journey

We have already experienced so much since we first started our journey in 2016. Here are some highlights from our history. Follow us on Instagram or Facebook to see what we're currently up to (links at the very bottom of our website).

october 2016 (First sketch of our lightbulb logo design)

December 2016 (Trip to London to research coffee, tea, and hot chocolate shops)

March 2017 (Toured 9 coffee farms in Hawaii to learn more about where coffee begins)

September 2017 (Attended our 1st of many networking events to start sharing our story and drum up interest about our new coffee house)

October 2017 (Coffee exploration trip to Seattle that helped us to finalize our menu options and recipes)

December 2017 (progress is made with converting a previous retail space that took us ~1.5 years to find. We went through ~250 properties and a couple of failed leases along the way)

January 2018 (we make the finishing touches on our signature blend coffee before releasing it to the public)

January 2018 (we experiment with billboard advertising in multiple locations)

January 2018 (1st of 14 pour over pop-ups that we performed to get real market feedback before we opened)

April 2018 (external sign gets installed)

May 2018 ("Grind" opening)

July 2018 (Our experimental cold brew blended drinks become popular for the summer)

July 2018 (We stock up on more locally-sourced vanilla ice cream for our affogatos)

July 2018 (one of the many drinks we accidentally spilled and posted on social media. We ended up embracing our mistakes as a normal part of business that we shared regularly)

July 2018 (Making one of our Chemex Pour Overs)

July 2018 (One of the many things we accidentally broke and posted on social media)

July 2018 (employee of the month is given to the one who broke the most dishes)

August 2018 (one of over 50 "The Junto" events held every week for mutual self-improvement)

August 2018 (one of our busy Sundays)

August 2018 (another thing that we broke and posted on social media)

September 2018 (We hire our much needed 1st employee)

September 2018 (Our Clever Bean sticker shows up in Canada)

October 2018 (We accidentally drop an entire box of baked goods and share it on social media)

November 2018 (we host a latte art competition with other local baristas)

February 2019 (Filmed for a TV spot on ABC4 - Good Things Utah)

March 2019 (One of the many "milk runs" we posted on social media)

April 2019 (Interviewed to be featured as a business highlight in nugent magazine)

May 2019 (one of our employees is the 1st to get a tattoo of our lightbulb logo)

May 2019 (volunteered for an organization that fights against domestic violence to celebrate our one year anniversary)


September 2019 (Our clever bean sticker ends up in Paris, France for the 2nd time)

January 2020 (one of our monthly events where we released new stickers and merch)

March 2020 (we close our physical location to focus on scaling our business online and offer pre-ground bags of our coffee for the 1st time)

2020-2021 (Along with growing our online coffee subscriptions, new products, resources, and recipes will be released on our website over time)