Yesterday we went equipment shopping in a cycle shop, when Sonja discovered a flyer pointing to a local coffee roaster. Since we make it a point of buying local whenever possible, we headed to the store & cafe located in a tiny side road in downtown Offenburg.
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| Arnold's Kaffee Manufaktur |
When we entered the building we were welcomed by the overwhelming good smell of fresh roasted coffee. The antique furniture and the grandma style decoration perfectly fits the architecture and the atmosphere. In the inner sanctum we find green beans from all over the world stacked along the wall, waiting to be processed.
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| Mr Arnold and his coffee roaster Photo source: here |
Roland went with the owner's recommendation for a Costa Rica and a Rwanda roast. Of course, excellent coffee comes with a certain price, but it also comes with an extraordinary taste, plus from a local shop.
And, isn't life too short for bad coffee anyway?
Yes, yes it is. So nice you have a local roaster. Our local roaster closed, then we lucked out in that our Saturday Coffee house started roasting their own coffee in town at one of their other locations.
ReplyDeleteLove that first picture. The old bicycle with the brightly painted building just looks wonderful to me, but I am a sucker for old bike pictures.
Brandy, if it weren't for the flyer in the cycle shop we wouldn't have known that such gem existed.
DeleteThe old bike had to be in the picture. I love the headlamp.
Too right it is!
ReplyDeleteAt the meeting that I'm attending in Denver, I ran into a colleague that had a small scale, coffee beans, grinder, french press, etc. and proceeded to make his own coffee and passing on the hotel coffee. He hasn't gotten to the point of roasting his own coffee but that is more due to the difficulty of finding green beans where he lives in Washington DC. When I was last in Ethiopia, everyone is a coffee snob. The open market only sold green beans as no one would buy beans that someone else roasted.
ReplyDeleteI like the first photo with the bike as well.
Bob, you're missing out by adding the sugar and cream...
Interesting thought, roasting your own beans! Altough I assume it would be very difficult to find green beans in Germany, too. But anyway I will have to look into this!
DeleteIn Ethiopia they roasted the beans for each pot of coffee on the small charcoal burner that they used for the coffee using a small steel pan until it was the color and had the aroma that they were looking for. There were western style coffee places selling the western style drinks and used pre-roasted coffee but it was mostly westerners in the shop.
DeleteAlthough I'm not a coffee-person, I love the smell. Nice find and I guess, it will be a long relationship between Roland and Mr Arnold's shop :-)?
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