Our Story

Ahoy! and welcome aboard!

Nightwatch is a steering watch I took too many times to count as a crew member and then as a Captain on sportfishing boats out of San Diego, California. I'd either stay up all night steering the boat, or I break up the watches with the crew - many times I'd get a few hours of sleep, only to get shaken up for a full day of fishing.

Coffee was our mainstay. At the time, a dark, strong, thick, pungent coffee; taste, was secondary. The side effects that would keep us awake, and the alertness provided by that elixir in our mugs brewed on board, were the priority.

Little did I know that 20 years later, in 1994, I would open the Nautical Bean® Coffee Company in Oceanside, California, and immerse myself into the wonderful world of coffee. I concluded that the vast majority of my customers drank coffee to wake up - or stay awake! - so I worked on creating a special coffee blend for my customers that might need that extra boost; an extra wake-up call of sorts, a full-bodied coffee roasted for maximum caffeine performance and taste.

After a year of blending and countless roasts and cupping tests, the coffee we sought was created in 1995, in the Daymar Corporation's special Cupping Room, with my good friend, owner, and Master Roaster, Roy Gallegos.

Roy asked, "What will you call this special blend?" I thought for a moment, back to my Deckhand fishing days when the captain would point at their four-pot coffee brewer and adamantly quote: "Three pots for passengers, the top right one, that's reserved for the Night Watch Crew."

Night Watch® Coffee has been our #1 seller at the Nautical Bean® Coffee Company since 1995. We are proud to now offer it online at www.nightwatchcoffee.com.

We hope you enjoy our Night Watch® Coffee and share it with your crew members.

Until then, good luck and good coffee!

Captain

John M. Alvarez