Blind Dog Coffee Roasters was established in 2007, by founder Mark Berry in Reno, Nevada. Mark as a young child developed cancer that threatened his eyesight, through radiation he won the fight. Many years later, by the fall of his 49th birthday, he became legally blind.

No longer able to earn a living as he had done the past 30 years, Mark decided along with his family, that he would learn to professional roast coffee and in doing this Blind Dog Coffee Roasters was born. 
Working side by side with his family for several years, Mark decided it was time to retire and has passed along his company to his family.
  
Ian and Yuliya Berry, Mark’s son and daughter-in-law, now run the company’s factory in Gardnerville, Nevada. Blind Dog offers a full complement of gourmet roasts and blends – a product line aimed to carve out their share of a market dominated by java giants like Starbucks and Peet’s.
Packaged in its distinct lime green bag, Blind Dog Coffee is on the shelves of nearly every major grocer in Northern Nevada: Raley’s, Scholari’s, Smith’s, Safeway, four Walmarts, three Costco’s, Whole Foods, Natural Grocers, and Holiday Markets.

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Still clinging tight to the core values Mark has set in place; always wanting to offer the customers a specialty high-quality coffee at a fair price and being able to give back to the community, especially to the Northern Nevada Children's Cancer Foundation. With every cup of Blind Dog Coffee, you'll help give a child the chance to fight.
Blind Dog Coffee puts a smile on your face and a wag on your tail!
Coffee is now distinguished between so-called first, second and third “waves.” Third wave coffees are the local “artisan” roasts you’ll see hipsters drink at $5 a cup.

Its predecessor, “second wave coffee,” is the generation of joe ushered in by the Starbucks and Peet’s of the world. This wave turned coffee into a social event.

First wave coffee is the stuff our parents or grandparents drank. Folgers and Maxwell House, before the cans were repurposed for storing loose change when dad or mom said a curse word.

These are not discrete categories, however, as the Blind Dog brew, which belongs to the second wave, is just as artisanal as what you’ll find in the gourmet coffee shops.