Khristian Bombeck is a longtime coffee pro and snowboarding junkie who ran a coffee roastery and café with wife Heather for over a decade in Bozeman, Montana. They relocated to Salt Lake City to launch Alpha Dominche, a company that aims to produce cutting-edge coffee...
Miami native Wade Windsor moved to California for surfing and studies and eventually settled in Long Beach with wife Lindsay. They operate Lord Windsor Roasters near downtown, where Wade roasts coffee according to a mantra: “do it right, roast it light.” I recently corresponded with...
Apparently, coffee wasn’t complex enough for Ceremony Coffee Roasters, a company based in Annapolis, Maryland. Yes, the beverage boasts over 800 flavor influencing components, yet Ceremony Director of Wholesale Ronnie Haas and Head Roaster Andy Sprenger decided to harness coffee’s power of absorption for good...
When Intelligentsia Coffee opened the doors to their now-iconic Sunset Junction coffee bar, the Chicago-based company honored their adopted city with a signature coffee cocktail that still holds up six years later. The beverage combines four shots of Black Cat espresso, rich Straus Family Creamery...
Sam Penix grew up in the spring training hub of Sarasota, Florida, moved to New York and fell for specialty coffee at Gimme! He joined Everyman Espresso, became the owner and now operates two cafes in Manhattan. On January 16, we met at Everyman Espresso...
In Orange County, Jeff Duggan has become synonymous with specialty coffee. The trained chemist and tech world veteran started roasting beans at home in 2000, experimented with commercial roasting at Irvine’s Layer Cake Bakery and launched Portola Coffee Lab in full at OC Mart Mix...