Espresso, for here please.

10 or 11 showed up last Friday night for our espresso tasting. Some had been in our shop before while others were first timers. We had 4 espresso all together, our 49th Parallel Epic opened up the event, followed by Ritual Sunday Blend, Barefoot The Boss with the Grand Finale of Sweet Tooth from Ritual, which was a Costa Rica Don Mayo, Finca La Loma. We tasted each blindly and had everyone write down on a chalk board what word or two described best what they tasted in each. We then disclosed which espresso they had just tasted and described the cupping and tasting notes from the Roaster to compare ours from theirs and then spoke very casually about each in terms of varietal, processing methods and so on. It was quite interesting to read what some of our customers jotted down, especially the description of Red bell pepper for our Epic. In the end, we hope that people got a very small piece of the big world of espresso and acquired perhaps a little better understanding and appreciation for the beverage. We're looking forward to the next one ( October) and hope to have more amazing coffee and roasters featured in our shop. We have a little left over from the event, so we'll be pulling shots of whatever's left for the week. If you have the "sweet tooth", it should be available for a couple more days.

Now, I'd like to mention a few words on our for HERE ONLY policy. The only beverage we'd like everyone to enjoy on site, comfortably seating or standing is our espresso. The final beverage is usually equal or less than 2ml in volume. You could technically drink itin one sip. This isn't our way to control your preferences or the pace at which you decide to live your life, it's all about the quality of the end product. The moment that the espresso is being pulled, it looses heat. That's why most all of our porcelain sits on top of the synesso, an attempt at keeping your beverage hot, they don't just sit there to look pretty ( and that they do). We also pre-heat your espresso cup with hot water right before extracting the espresso. We also serve all of our espresso on a bamboo tray with water, if you don't want the tray, we'll gladly hand you the cup/saucer.

Recap... Espresso for here only is good for me because:

1. It tastes better

2. It's a pleasing experience and the blue porcelain cups are mesmerizing and beautiful.

3. I can eliminate on waste, by saving a paper cup that will ultimately end up in the landfills.

A customer thanked for me today for slowing him down after I told him to have his espresso for here. "Prego!" ;)   Again, we're not trying to dictate how to drink your favorite espresso based beverage, we're just trying to encourage you to experience the beverage to its full potential.

Comments

[G_]

Amen, brother.

[Amelie]

It's sister.