Grinders
The one piece of equipment that changes the cup more than any other, and the one most people buy last. Hand grinders that outrun electrics twice their price, and the electrics worth the counter space.
$120 to $450
Opening autumn 2026
Coffee gear priced for Canada, with nothing owing at the door.
Order a grinder from an American site and the number on the page is not the number you pay. Duty, tax and a courier's brokerage fee turn up afterwards, sometimes weeks later, sometimes on the doorstep before anyone will hand the box over. Peaberry holds its stock in Canada and quotes one figure.
Shipping across Canada. Beans roasted to order.
The price
Two ways to buy the same grinder
Both of these land within about twelve dollars of each other. The difference is that on the left, a fifth of the money shows up after the box does.
From a site in the United States
- Listed price, US dollarsUS$265.00
- After conversion and the card foreign transaction fee$375.00
- Duty and HST billed by the courier, after delivery$54.00
- Brokerage and disbursement billed by the courier, after delivery$32.00
- Actually paid$461.00
Eighty-six dollars of that was invisible at checkout. Refusing it at the door means refusing the parcel.
From Peaberry
- Listed price, Canadian dollars$397.00
- Duty paid on the pallet, before it was listedincluded
- HST shown at checkout$51.61
- Shipping within Canada on orders over $75free
- Actually paid$448.61
Every line of it was on the screen before the card was charged, and the courier has nothing to collect.
Illustrative, using a common mid-range hand grinder and Ontario rates. The exact figures move with the exchange rate, the province and the courier. The shape does not: goods imported one parcel at a time are cleared one parcel at a time, and every one of those clearances carries a fee that does not get smaller because the order was small.
What we sell
A short shelf, chosen on purpose
Four or five options in each category rather than forty. Everything here is something a person could keep for a decade, and everything here is stocked in Canada.
Brewers and kettles
Pour-over cones, immersion brewers and the gooseneck kettles that make them controllable. Temperature control where it earns its cost and plain steel where it does not.
$45 to $260Scales, filters and the rest
The unglamorous half of the shelf. A scale that reads to a tenth of a gram, filters that fit what you already own, and storage that actually keeps carbon dioxide out.
$18 to $190Beans
Roasted to order in Canada and shipped inside days of the roast date, which is printed on the bag rather than a best-before eighteen months out. Single origins and one house blend, on subscription or not.
$19 to $32 for 340gHow we choose
Why the shelf is short
1
It has to be repairable
Burrs wear out, gaskets perish and switches fail. If the maker sells the part, the thing lasts. If it does not, we are selling somebody a future landfill item at a premium.
2
It has to be here
Nothing gets listed that is not already in a Canadian warehouse with its duty settled. A drop-shipped listing that quietly imports one parcel per order is how the customs bill gets back into the transaction.
3
It has to beat the thing below it
Every step up the shelf has to be defensible in a sentence. Where the cheaper option is genuinely the right answer, the page says so, which costs us margin and is the only reason to trust the rest of it.
4
We have to have used it
No listing goes up on a spec sheet alone. The write-up says what the thing is bad at, because everything is bad at something and a page that pretends otherwise is an advertisement.
A peaberry is what grows when a coffee cherry produces one round seed instead of the usual two flat ones. It happens in roughly five per cent of a crop, it cannot be planted for on purpose, and it has to be pulled out of the lot by hand. That is the whole idea of the shop, so it is the name.
Guides
Written for the question, not for the sale
Almost every buying guide that ranks for these searches is written for an American reader, quotes American prices and links to a shop that will hand a Canadian a customs bill. These will not do that. They are being written now and will publish before the store opens.
- Do I pay duty on coffee gear shipped to Canada? What is actually owed, who collects it, and why the brokerage fee is the part that stings. In progress.
- Hand grinder or electric, and when the answer changes The honest crossover point, in dollars and in minutes a morning. In progress.
- Grind size for every brewer, with a way to check it A reference table, and how to tell from the cup that you are wrong. In progress.
- Reading a roast date, and what stale actually tastes like Why the bag says roasted on rather than best before. In progress.
- Water, which is the ingredient nobody buys What Canadian tap water does to extraction, city by city. In progress.
Questions
Reasonable things to ask
Will I be charged duty or customs on an order?
No. Everything is imported in bulk with the duty settled before it is listed, and then shipped to you domestically. A domestic parcel does not cross a border, so there is no clearance, no duty and no brokerage fee. Sales tax is charged at your province's rate and shown at checkout.
How long does delivery take?
Two to five business days to most Canadian addresses, longer to the territories and to remote postal codes. Beans are roasted to order, which adds a day or two before the parcel moves and is the reason they arrive fresh.
Do you ship to the United States?
Not at first. Sending a parcel south now means a formal customs entry and a duty bill on the American end, which is exactly the experience this shop exists to avoid. If that changes, it will change with the price shown landed rather than as a surprise.
Who roasts the beans?
Canadian roasters, named on every bag with the roast date. Nothing is re-bagged anonymously and nothing sits in a warehouse waiting for an order.
Why so few products?
Because a shelf of forty grinders is not a choice, it is a search problem handed back to the customer. Carrying five means each one can be used, written about honestly and stocked deeply enough that it is actually in the warehouse when it says it is.
Is anything on the site actually for sale yet?
Not yet. The supply agreements are being signed and the first stock is being placed. This page exists early and says so plainly, because the guides above take months to become useful and there is no reason to start them the week the doors open.
One email when it opens
No newsletter, no countdown, no launch sequence. One message saying the shop is open, and then nothing until you buy something.
Until the list has a proper confirmed sign-up behind it, this is a plain email. That is deliberate: a form that collects an address without confirming it is a form that cannot prove consent.