Where are you located, and who are your go-to success roasters within the area?

What do you like about them - and are there any stand-out offerings you’d recommend?

  • dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I’m in Sacramento, California, USA and am a coffee roaster so I like my roastery. I don’t know the rules about self promo here so I’ll say around me (that aren’t me) the best are Mast, Temple, and Camelia.

    Mast has the best coffee actually roasted in Sacramento if you brew your own, but the drinks in their cafes are always lackluster. Temple’s drinks are on point but I feel like they haven’t scaled well on the roasting side. Camelia has good coffee and I personally really like their packaging.

    • Anomander@kbin.socialOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Mast has the best coffee actually roasted in Sacramento if you brew your own, but the drinks in their cafes are always lackluster. Temple’s drinks are on point but I feel like they haven’t scaled well on the roasting side.

      I think it’s wild how this happens, and how (relatively) common it is. We have a few businesses in town here that fall into that same issue - either they roast really well and phone it in on drinks in cafe, or the cafe is excellent but the in-house roasting just doesn’t meet the bar.

      Though the big nominee I would have had for that award shifted their roasting program last fall and now the coffee is kind of crummy in addition to lackluster drinks in-cafe.

      My absolute favourite case there is a company whose cafes do a phenomenal job of making their coffee taste normal, but take some home and those beans are consistently roasted like someone back at the factory is trying to craft bean-shaped satire of Specialty light roasts. It would be art if it was deliberate, but they’re completely straight-faced and earnest that they roast the absolute best coffee in the city and anyone who doesn’t agree is an uncultured boor who doesn’t really like coffee. I wish I was kidding.