The Resupply Blog

Black Rifle went public. Their DTC revenue dropped. Yours didn't have to go with it. Here's what a veteran coffee subscription looks like when the founder still owns it, still roasts it, and still has something to prove.

I'm a veteran, a former Black Rifle Coffee customer, and I built a competing coffee company. That makes me either the least qualified person to write this review, or the most. What they built was real. What they became is a different story — and if you've been feeling like something changed, you're not imagining it.

Nobody goes to a combat zone for the coffee. But everyone who's been there has a coffee story. Here's the unofficial field manual for surviving deployment on whatever caffeine you could scrounge — ranked from the bottom of the barrel to the stuff that made you briefly forget where you were.

Charlottesville's coffee scene is the real deal. But in a city with two national defense activities and a significant veteran population, there's exactly one veteran-owned coffee brand operating here. One.

One veteran. Five hundred dollars. Three weeks. No presale, no announcement, no safety net. Just a question nobody could answer and a decision to answer it.

"Specialty coffee shop" is on every sign and every bag. Most of them don't deserve the label. Here's how to tell the difference.

There's a veteran-owned roaster in Charlottesville doing wholesale, white label, and co-packing for cafes and businesses across the greater Albemarle area. Most people don't know it exists yet.

Civilian coffee culture has gotten out of hand. The 12-modifier orders. The $400 pour-over setups. The complaints about "astringency." A veteran's field assessment of what went wrong — and how to fix it.

Veteran-owned coffee companies aren't built on passion. They're built on something harder to fake — a standard that was set long before the first roast. Here's what that actually means, and why it matters where you spend your money.

At Aerial Resupply Coffee, we believe every service member's love language is different — and so is their coffee order. One branch is standing post in the rain at 0300 running on pure spite and a thermos of medium roast....

Gary Chapman wrote the book on love languages. He just forgot to interview anyone who's ever been yelled at by a drill sergeant. Here are the 5 love languages Gary missed — and why veterans have been speaking them fluently the whole time.

There comes a point for a lot of veterans when energy drinks stop feeling like a solution and start feeling like a problem. They used to work. You could knock one back, power through a long day, and keep moving....

I haven’t talked much about the Aerial Resupply Coffee investment raise lately. Part of that is intentional. Part of that is me doing what I always do, which is putting my head down, roasting coffee, shipping orders, trying to keep...

  In the world of military logistics, "beans and bullets" are the two most critical pillars of operational success. While bullets win the skirmish, it is the beans—specifically the coffee beans—that win the war. Throughout American history, coffee has been...

There are smells that follow you for life. Not in a traumatic way. Not even in a bad way all the time. But in a “one whiff and you’re back there” kind of way. You can be sitting in a...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Charlottesville, VA — January 2026 Aerial Resupply Coffee, a veteran-owned coffee and tea company founded by U.S. Army veteran Mike Klemmer, continues its mission to support those who support others by expanding its operations in Charlottesville, Virginia....

THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST The Hammer became aware of General Patton the way a man became aware of incoming artillery, not through sound, but through certainty. The air behind him tightened. The room seemed to shrink by inches. The...

Colonel Buck “The Hammer” Thomas did not hate Christmas. Hate required emotion, and emotion was a liability best managed by people in public affairs or junior officers still learning the cost of sincerity. The Hammer did not hate Christmas. He...

If you’ve ever poured a cup of coffee that tasted like pride, purpose, and pure American grit, you probably have Black Rifle Coffee Company to thank for blazing the trail. They built a movement — veteran-owned coffee that stood for...

Purpose: Deliver a naturally sweet, low-stress latte that sustains focus and morale without sugar spikes. Lifeline forms the core—bright, smooth, and balanced—fortified with honey and cinnamon for warmth and clarity. Outcome: Sustained calm alertness. Time-on-target: ≈6 minutes.   Section I...

Purpose: Execute a stealth-level latte that strikes with chocolate and hazelnut precision. Spectre brings the deep roast edge; Nutella adds covert sweetness and texture. Outcome: Silky, rich, and mission-ready. Time-on-target: ≈7 minutes.   Section I — Equipment & Supply Loadout...