Vent wound up supplying coffee for the brewery’s AM Gold cream ale and Pajama Pants oatmeal stout. Walker said she first connected with Union Craft this past winter through a friend who told her the brewery was seeking a local roaster-collaborator. Most of the businesses, including Vent, are preparing to open by spring of 2018.
Earth Treks is also building a rock climbing gym there with 10,000 square feet of terrain. So far, the collective is filling up: the Baltimore Whiskey Company, The Charmery and Huckle’s brand hot sauce are all relocating production into spaces inside the warehouse. The brewery is building out its own 50,000-square-foot headquarters next door, with plans to move there from its Woodberry location just down the road next year. The six-year-old Woodberry brewery bought 138,000 square feet of space at the southern edge of Medfield (near I-83) last year, with plans to create a hub for Baltimore-born companies and merchants. Union Collective is a “Made-in-Baltimore”-themed community headed up by Union Craft Brewing. “It’s just as much about the community and relationships that you build as the quality.” “It just puts down a lot of the pretension” attached to some coffee shops, she said of her design. She said she hopes to achieve a similar “garage feel” in Medfield. While living out west, she worked for a coffee roaster in Reno that converted an old tow garage into a functional shop. Hamptons Espresso Buderim, Buderim, Queensland. Her company became the in-house roaster for Argosy Café in 2015. She moved back to Maryland from the West Coast in 2012, and worked at Spro in Hampden from May 2012 through 2014.
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Metered parking is available in a full lot in the rear of the restaurant. Walker has worked in Baltimore’s coffee scene for years, and has 11 years of experience in coffee altogether. We are conveniently located on 36th Street, commonly known as the Avenue in Hampden. In addition to serving coffee and baked goods, Walker also plans to showcase local artists’ work. We offer skill based favourites such as bread making, charcuterie and handmade canapes. For food, Walker plans to offer Baklava and Greek butter cookies, made with her own family recipes, and locally made pastries. At Hampden Deli, we are constantly changing our classes. Customers will be able to sit at picnic tables or stools at the espresso bar, with room for up to 45 people.ĭrink options will include espresso drinks, nitro cold brew, coffee “mock-tails,” Chemex pour-over coffee and Aeropress coffee. The shop will be designed to let in lots of natural light though a glass door and two skylights. The company’s new 1,900-square-foot café will be situated at the foot of what was once a loading dock for the warehouse at 1700 W.
Lines stretched out the door at Stumptown, where the people-watching was top-notch and I had out-of-this-world coffees from the El Injerto, Chicua and Buenavista estates in Guatemala.“The whole idea of the ‘Vent’ name is that people can come and let out their frustrations and worries, and just breathe and take in something better,” Walker said in an interview Wednesday. I had a berry bright Michicha natural from Ethiopia from the brew bar. Now the scene is beginning to burst, led by this cozy Eastern Market café, which was started by a former Counter Culture employee and brews up private-label coffee roasted by Counter Culture. The bad news: the good folks at Spro waited until after I moved to Guatemala to open a café just blocks from the house where I used to live! I had two outstanding Ethiopian pour-overs - Counter Culture’s Michicha Sidama natural and a washed Yirgacheffe from Origins.ĭC was a coffee wasteland when I lived there in the 1990s. and select the brew method - v60, Aeropress, Chemex, French press, vac pot, etc. The good news: Baltimore’s best espresso bar has now evolved into a unique coffee emporium that allows you to choose a coffee from among a half-dozen or so great roasters - Barefoot, Counter Culture, Intelligentsia, Origins Organic Coffee, Stumptown, etc. The good folks at Coffee Exchange sent me on the road with a Coffee Exchange Backpack Bottle (thanks, Charlie!) and a very complex coffee from Papua New Guinea. This Fair Trade roaster and community café is a CRS partner in the Fair Trade Coffee Project and a birthplace of Coffee Kids: co-owner Bill Fishbein co-founded the organization. Saint’s serves up Intelligentstia Direct Trade coffees on a clover in my hometown during my time there I was able to sample clover-brewed DT coffees from Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, Rwanda and Honduras. I enjoyed a Tanzanian peaberry with very pronounced blueberry notes. Mudhouse serves a mighty fine espresso and some very good coffees roasted nearby at Lexington Coffee Roasting. Here is the complete list with some notes on each. Monday’s photo essay on my holiday coffee-drinking adventures featured only some of the great coffeehouses I visited during my holiday.
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