Sharing stories and adventures about all things coffee, stories, and stoke
How do you normally brew coffee? Do you brew coffee differently at home compared to when you’re on a week-long bikepacking trip or exploring the high desert backroads in your conversion van? By the way, there’s no right or wrong answer here. If you feel stuck, would you like some more ideas and options?
Nacho the van has come a long way from being an 11-passenger van used to carry collegiate athletes to games all over the Pacific Northwest. At the same time, there’s still a LONG way to go. Since I bought the van from the university where I teach, many students know its backstory as they see it sitting in the school parking lot. Some joke, saying, “Yeah … it still looks a little sketchy.”
So, what is the latest on the Nacho conversion process?
Yep, you read that correctly. Moving forward, when you buy ANY coffee or apparel from Loam Coffee, there are no shipping fees attached … like, at all.
So, why am I doing this?
One of the questions I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is how much it costs to brew a good cup of coffee. Many who are not members of the specialty coffee nerd club (which I’m a member of) look in from the outside and are baffled that we won’t think twice about spending $150 on a gooseneck water kettle, $150 on a Bluetooth scale, $350 on a coffee grinder, and so on. Is all of that really necessary?
Taking it a step further, can I brew a good cup of coffee on a $20 Mr. Coffee drip brewer?
While the title of this article sounds like I'm about ready to pick a fight, let me explain. I'll share a story about serving coffee to those who are not coffee nerds.
Yeah, I said coffee nerds.
We … yes, "we," get all nerded out about coffee. Talking about how coffee is processed, the varietals, cupping, roast profiles, flavor notes, and so on really is a lot of fun. Like, A LOT. However, if our customer is the very tiny slice of coffee drinkers out there who actually nerd out about this, then we might as well be speaking an unintelligible language.
When I started Loam Coffee in 2015, I was only focused on roasting and selling bags of coffee. That was it. But things change. Businesses grow and evolve over time. Loam Coffee is going through an evolution right now.
Coffee. Photography. Why not bring them together?
