Return of the Ritual

For thousands of years, indigenous cultures consumed unroasted coffee — not for the jolt, but for clarity, focus, and ritual. Then roasting and mass production took over, and we forgot.

Majik Moka brings back the experience that can only be described as a return to lucid energy — where the mind locks in, the body stays calm, and momentum replaces urgency. Not a buzz. Not a high. A state of flow so clean it feels intentional, as if your nervous system finally remembered how it’s supposed to work.

Ripening vs Roasting

Majik Moka begins with unroasted green coffee beans—never burned, never rushed. Instead of roasting, we use a slow, gentle ripening process that naturally browns the beans without harsh heat.

This preserves delicate compounds that are typically lost in roasting and transforms the coffee into something entirely different: a smooth, light, tea-like brew with depth, warmth, and clarity.

What roasting destroys, ripening preserves. Chlorogenic acids, native polyphenols, and heat-sensitive antioxidants are largely destroyed during traditional roasting. These compounds support balanced blood sugar, reduce oxidative stress, and allow caffeine to be released more gradually.

The result: focused energy without anxiety, jitters, or crashes. Instead of stressing the nervous system, Majik Moka works with your body’s natural chemistry to deliver clean, steady wakefulness.

The Experience

You feel it almost immediately — not as a jolt, not as a buzz — but as a quiet switch flipping on. Your mind sharpens. Your body wakes up. Thoughts line up instead of racing.

There’s no spike, no jitter, no anxious edge. Just clear, steady energy that pulls you into focus and keeps you there. You don’t crash later because there’s nothing artificial to crash from.

It’s the kind of alertness that feels natural — like your system recognizing something it knows what to do with. Calm, awake, intentional. The way energy is supposed to feel.

Taste Meets Aroma

The first thing you notice is what’s missing. There’s no bitterness. No harsh edge. No roasted aftertaste clinging to your palate.

Instead, the cup is smooth and gently sweet, with a light, tea-like body and familiar cereal-honey notes that feel comforting rather than aggressive. The flavor is like a complete unique confection without being heavy — clean, round, and easy to drink like.

It tastes the it smells. Soft. Whole. Unforced.

Once you’ve had it this way, it’s hard to go back.

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The Origin of Magic Moka - Click Here to Read

The idea behind Majik Moka began long before it had a name.

It started in 1980, when our founder Rhett Madden was just a Boy Scout earning his wilderness survival merit badge. During that sweltering weekend in the forest, he learned to make herbal teas from arrowhead roots, wildflowers, and whatever plants could be foraged. The experience stuck with him — there was something elemental about turning raw, unprocessed ingredients into something warming and nourishing.


Twenty years later, that memory would spark everything.


The Question That Changed Everything
Summer 2000.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Rhett was now a coffee shop owner and roaster, and he’d just received the largest shipment of his career: 50 bags of green coffee beans — 7,500 pounds total — sent overnight from his uncle’s farm in Guatemala with one instruction: sell them fast.


The beans arrived in the middle of a brutal heat wave. As they sat untouched in his shop that first night, a simple question surfaced: Was roasting really the only way coffee was meant to be used?


He remembered that hot weekend earning his merit badge. The herbal teas. The wild ingredients. What if coffee could be brewed like tea?


Years of Trial and Error


What followed were years of experimentation — brewing green coffee beans like loose-leaf tea. Most attempts failed. But through persistence and a few happy accidents, Rhett eventually created something palatable: a drink he called Mocha Tea. He served it at his shop during those scorching Alabama summers, selling it like sweet tea to customers looking for an alternative to hot roasted coffee.


People loved it. But Rhett knew something was still missing.


The Secret in the Rainforest


Around 2005, while visiting his uncle’s farm in Cobán, Guatemala, Rhett met with local workers — descendants of the ancient Maya who had been cultivating coffee in those cloud forests for generations.
They told him about a secret ripening technique passed down through the centuries, one that had also been used with cacao long ago. It was a natural transformation that happened before roasting — a process that unlocked flavors and properties the modern coffee world had completely forgotten.


That conversation changed everything.

What Rhett discovered in those rainforests became the foundation of Majik Moka — a return to ancient wisdom, and a coffee experience unlike anything the world had tasted in centuries.

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