Doug Klein, who is a Consuming Ambitions top contributor of great foodie ideas (such as Fisher Farm), tipped me off to some excellent coffee he enjoyed recently at the San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market. The Blue Bottle Coffee Company describes its "Artisanal Microroasting" process thus:
We take Freshness and small-batch roasting to an extreme not considered practical anywhere else in the coffee business. We use only the best certified organic coffees, occasionally using beautiful coffees that are farmed traditionally without pesticides.
After roasting, coffee beans exhale CO2 for several hours. Instead of keeping our beans in bins, we mix the blends and bag them within 4 hours of roasting to harness the CO2 to keep oxygen (and, hence, oxidation) out of the bags.
We never preblend our coffees thus assuring the ideal roast profile for each bean used in a blend. All varietals are roasted individually, then mixed into our blends.
Blue Bottle is based in Oakland but has "an odd but convivial little coffee kiosk" in San Francisco's Hayes Valley on Linden Street (near Gough) as well as the Ferry Plaza market location. For those of you out of the area, check out the Blue Bottle web store. Based on Doug's recommendation and the rave reviews online, I can't wait to try this coffee. Thanks again, Doug!
Blue Bottle Coffee Company
1552 Beach St. #R
Oakland, CA 94608
510-653-3394
315 Linden Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 252-7535
1 Ferry Bldg
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 291-3276
Ok, I finally got to go to the Linden St "store" yesterday. It literally is a garage in an alley, but it is a way cool place to have coffee, especially on a nice day. Hot tip (not on the menu): get the "Gibralter". A double expresso with some milk floated on the top that has the most incredible flavor you can imagine!!
Posted by: Doug Klein | June 05, 2007 at 05:47 PM