Counter Culture Coffee

I had an opportunity to attend a Bay Area Tasting at Ten and would highly recommend it! Every Friday at 10am, Counter Culture Coffee opens its doors to the public to taste delicious coffee and discuss sustainability in the coffee industry. What an eye opener (in more ways than one)! Each week showcases different offerings, giving me an excuse to come back again sometime. The tasting is fun, FREE, and super informative. They even offer a low-key tour of the roasting room afterward....read full review

Note that the Emeryville location doesn't serve coffee, except on Fridays at 10 am, when they are open to the public for free tasting (cuppings, to you!). It looks like some of their specialized classes are open to the public too, such as one that covers “brewing basics." I plan to drop in some Friday, but In the meantime I'm reviewing a bag of coffee I picked up at Whole Foods – an organic blend called Forty-Six. Normally it costs $13, but Whole Foods had it on sale...read full review

I attended the Friday 10:00am cupping recently and left smitten. If you are a coffee n*** and want to be the coffee version of those annoying people in wineries that wax poetic about "nose" and "body" you'll love it. We smelled and slurped 2 different Colombian coffees (my inner coffee n*** was disappointed there weren't more). So be like me and belly your soccer-mom-self up to the bar with all the hipsters and try it. We were also treated to a tour of the roasting facility. They...read full review