Category: Roasters
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Roastery Tour: East One
Join us on a coffee roaster tour at East One Coffee in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. 10am, Saturday, February 5 This is a free event, but please bring a few bucks to tip the barista staff. We will taste coffees, see coffee roasted and learn more about how coffee roasters make decisions that influence the flavors…
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East One Coffee Roasters, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
To roast and then brew perfect coffee is part science, part dance. This isn’t a metaphor. The best coffee roasters I’ve met had the exacting deliberateness of lab techs with pipettes in windowless labs. The best baristas I’ve met had the proprioception of dancers. Selina Ullrich, Coffee Director for East One Coffee Roasters in Carroll…
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Ninth Street Espresso Roastery
Inside the Chelsea Market, Ninth Street Espresso, which has been serving great coffee since 2001 in their original location, roasts around 2000 pounds of coffee a week, one smallish batch at a time. For the first 12 years, Ninth Street sourced their coffee from other great roasters, before they took the leap in 2013…
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Gimme! Coffee Roastery Tour
Outside Ithaca, NY: The Gimme! Coffee Roastery Ithaca, New York in late May is all green pastoral bliss, bees careening in pollen-drunk paths and cool mist aspirating from the breath of falling water. Outside of town, outside of the buzz of late blooming adolescence from Cornell University and Ithaca College, Gimme! Coffee is roasting…
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Bryant Park Coffee Tour!
Join us as we break open our summer tour series with a coffee tour of Bryant Park! Bryant Park has recently broken out in a rash of great coffee! In addition to great coffee inside Grand Central, La Colombe, Culture Espresso, Blue Bottle, Zibetto, and BlueStone Lane have all begun to brew within a block or…
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City of Saints Coffee Roasters
City of Saints Coffee Roasters coffee brings coffee geekery, delicious treats and inclusion to the East Village scene. Location: 79 East 10th Street (near Astor Place–East Village) Hours: 7-7 Monday-Friday & 8-6 Saturday & 9-5 Sunday Open Since: Summer 2015 Amenities: Wifi, 10 bar chairs, 3-10 spots on benches in good weather, no outlets, no…
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Gabriel Boscana: A Labor of/for Love
A special post, cross-posted at Angel’s Cup, an amazing coffee subscription service and correspondence course in coffee tasting, reviewed here. Forty-five minutes from Philadelphia, along a country road with no street lights and no roundabouts, in the middle of an acre of land, in the garage of a 1940s ranch house, made by one man’s…
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Gotham Coffee Roasters: FlatIron Coffee
Location: 23 W. 19th Street (between fifth and sixth avenue) Hours:Weekdays 8am-7pm/ Weekends 9am -6pm Open Since: January 2017 Amenities: no wifi, no bathroom, seating for 8 Must Try: single origin espresso or single origin pour-over Owner: Chris Calkins (Prodigy Coffee) Roaster: Roasting out the Pulley Collective in Red Hook, BK Gotham Coffee Roasters is crafting interesting coffees…
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Ninth Street Espresso
In the far galaxy of the East Village, you’ll find one of the pioneering voices of independent coffee in New York City… Ninth Street Espresso! Six words or less: Single Roast, Quality Beans, Many Conversations Locations: 700 E. 9th Street (Between Avenues C &D)–the original location, profiled here Others: 75 9th Ave (Inside Chelsea Market)-the roastery…
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Oren, the Roaster Behind Oren’s Daily Roast
The Backstory: Oren’s Daily Roast It was 1978. You could buy a Sony Walkman for $200. You could buy a cup of Joe for under a dollar. Oren Bloostein, a young English major fresh from U-PENN graduation, moved into an apartment on 66th street between 1st and 2nd Avenue. He’d been accepted to the…
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