We Love Coffee

We love coffee. Good coffee. DAMN FINE coffee. Our ongoing mission is to bring you the best coffee the country has to offer.  In addition to fine espresso and drip from our pals and anchor roaster at Halfwit - we'll be featuring different roasters from around the country every month for our manual brews and retail beans.  

But coffee isn't the only thing we love.  Of course there's Tea - and we've got some of the best available - courtesy of our pals at SpiritTea. We're also a fan of yummy treats - and we've got that covered.  We get daily deliveries from Floriole Bakery as well as vegan donuts from Do Rite Donuts. The kids love it. 

We also feel it's important to note that we use organic ingredients whenever possible as well as offer a number of dairy-free options. 

Our Featured Roaster

Every month we're going to feature unique roasters from around the country.  We feel it's important to showcase products that Chicago coffee lovers would otherwise not be able to enjoy.  

THIS MONTH'S ROASTER:
ONYX COFFEE LAB, Springdale, Arkansas

From their site:

No matter what beverage is created with coffee in our cafés, it all starts with the green coffee. We believe that no amount of roasting expertise or beverage mixology can take the place of the kind of green coffee that’s the result of intentionality at the farm level. Coffees that are grown and harvested to maintain quality and consistency from cherry ripeness to density then processed to continue that quality creates a coffee that is clean, flavorful and interesting from cup to cup. Our commitment to seeking out quality green coffee ranges from trips to origin were Jon, part owner, and green buyer, cups hundreds of coffees in search of the one or two that fits what we are looking for. At times this yields small, one bag micro-lots, picked and processed specifically for Onyx that has gone on to win Good Food Awards and place in regional and national barista competitions.

At times this yields bringing in a container to split within buying groups we work with to offer a great coffee for an extended time. We can’t visit every farm we would like to in the world, so the rest of the sourcing work is done in our lab. We roast and cup dozens of coffee samples a week - narrowing them down to coffees that taste great as an espresso, pallets of lots designed to make up Southern Weather, our house blend, and single bags of coffee we vac-pac and sell in small releases.

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