Blue Bottle Coffee

Over the last few years, there’s been a lot of clamoring from our customers who don’t live in the Bay Area or New York if there were a way to get our cold coffee in stores near them. We had to tell them that it wasn’t the case, but it got us wondering if were even possible to make a product which was delicious, didn’t use heat during any part of the steeping, bottling, and pasteurizing process, and have it taste just as delicious as in our shops. We might have cracked the code! We will be featuring a bottled New Orleans, and a bottled Kyoto (black) coffee starting December 26th for a limited time in our shops in the Ferry Building and at our roastery in Oakland. The drinks are steeped in cold water at St. George Spirits, and bottled and pasteurized near our roastery in Oakland. The ingredients are identical to the drinks in our shops. All of us at Blue Bottle are super excited about these drinks and think they are delicious. We hope you do too. If you have a chance to try them, please let us know what you think by answering a few questions here.

it will really help us out before we do the next bottling.
thanks!

we had a great time presenting today’s pop up coffee salon in the oakland cupping room. we promise: more soon.

This Sunday, September 18th, we are trying out a Japanese-style coffee salon in the cupping room of our Oakland Roastery. We are featuring two processing methods of our Aida Battle selection El Majahual lots in five preparation methods: three hot, two cold. The salon will be open from 11-3. Please stop by! No reservations are necessary. And there will be toast and cake.

“I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it – overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby,

Maybe it was beginner’s luck, but in our second summer in the city, we have lined up four lovely spots to drink coffee in three of New York’s five boroughs. We’re still working on the Bronx and Staten Island.

The Highline
(Chelsea Market passage)
m-th 9am-5pm
fri-sun 9am-7pm
iced coffee, beans, house-made granola and other treats.
Full coffee bar coming soon!
Ends November 2011 –ish

Rockaway Beach
full espresso bar, individually prepared drip coffee,
iced coffee, beans, house-made granola and other treats.
m-f 8am-4pm
weekends 8am-6pm
ends labor day

New Amsterdam Market
Sundays 11am-4pm
Individually prepared drip coffee, iced coffee, beans, house-made granola and other treats.
Ends December 17, 2011

Smorgasburg
Saturdays 9am-5pm
Individually prepared drip coffee, iced coffee, beans, house-made granola and other treats.
Ends late November 2011

This Memorial Day weekend, we opened our little shed on Rockaway Beach! We are sharing it with Brooklyn’s delicious Caracas Arepa Bar. Find us at 106-01 Shore Front Parkway, Queens, or, in other words, right on the boardwalk at 106th Street – a beer-can’s throw from the Atlantic ocean. We’ll be open until Labor Day from 8-4 during the week, and 8-6 on weekends. We have a full espresso bar, individually prepared drip coffee, and lots of iced coffee. Possibly enough iced coffee.

Read this post from the New York Times to learn more about our distinguished neighbors – Rockaway Tacos, Robertas, The Meat Hook, Babycakes, and many more – serving up and down the boardwalk.

Our new cups are super adorable, and lined with corn-starch derived film. They are compostable in all jurisdictions where we operate – SF, Oakland, and Brooklyn. More importantly, we’ve found compostable lids that don’t leak. Our previous lids were a significant part of our plastic landfill waste. So make sure you look for a green bin to toss your cups and lids. Or stick around! We love it when you order for here.

we had a great time making coffee and dessert in the cupping room for our Kemgin release. Keep your eyes out … we plan on doing these with new coffees every month or so.
Photos by Luz Elena Castro and Kaori Egami

Please join us at our Oakland Roastery for an event celebrating Good Food Month’s Coffee Week. The event will feature three different preparations of our Good Food Award-winning Ethiopian Kemgin plus food pairings by Blue Bottle Coffee’s pastry chef, Caitlin Williams Freeman. Representatives from Blue Bottle Coffee will be on hand to discuss the Kemgin project and answer any and all questions about coffee and dessert

The ticket price includes 1/4 lb of Kemgin coffee beans.

Two seatings
2:00 pm and 3:30pm
$21.50

One- Chemex preparation of Kemgin paired with

Warm frankinsense gingerbread with whipped salted butter

Two- Nel Drip of Kemgin paired with

Basket of beignets with rum caramel dipping sauce

Three- Slow, cold iced drip of Kemgin, Evian ice paired with

Salted candied pecans

we love this cafe!

So much great coffee this weekend! our Ethiopian Kemgin will be sampled with all the other Good Food Award – winning coffees at today’s Ferry Plaza Farmers’ Market between 8-2. Free! Also our Kemgin will be available by the cup at our Ferry Building shop, and at our Roastery in Oakland. The Kemgin will be on Siphon at our shop on Mint Plaza. Also, we will have our favorites leading up to the Brazil Cup of Excellence auctions at the free public cupping at our roastery sunday January 16 and we’ll be serving the majestic Sulawesi Toarca Jaya Peaberry as an espresso on the La Marzocco Strada at our roastery in Oakland.