Best coffee in the bay!! Friday tastings rule. Thanx for the great coffee and info!!
Loren Thomas
What a hidden gem! Amazing coffee, values, and team. Their (free) weekly Friday coffee tastings are my new favorite local activity. Thanks for the treat and coffee facts!
Peter Farejowicz
This location isn’t a typical cafe that serves coffee but is open on Fridays weekly at 10am for a free coffee tasting. I dropped by as they were serving a blend sourced from India as well as a tea pairing.
Staff here is super informative / friendly and walks you through the tasting. Glad I was able to make it to one of these sessions!
Kiki Farnell
Wow! Utterly delicious coffee. We ran out the other day and used a price-equivalent brand…disaster. I went out that day and bought a few bags.
Jain Kumud
Loved it! Grt packaging Easy to carry Tastes gud Must try
be Light
Amazing roastery with some of the most complex and ethically sourced coffee in the world ??☕☕??
Andrew Esmeier
Amazing roastery with some of the most complex and ethically sourced coffee in the world ??☕☕??
James Kirby
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 for $11 – pretty good for a 12 oz bag compared to some of the other Bay Area “third wave†coffee roasters.
James K
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 for $11 – pretty good for a 12 oz bag compared to some of the other Bay Area “third wave” coffee roasters.It was a strange concoction: a dark roast of blended Colombian and Ethiopian coffees (my bag was 50% Colombia (Los Vascos), 38% Ethiopia yirgacheffe (Idido), and 12% Ethiopia natural sundried (Aramo), but apparently the composition of blend Forty-Six varies over time). I love Ethiopian coffee and I’m pretty sure it’s not common to combine it with Colombian and then give it a dark roast. But it worked! I love natural sundried beans, where the full cherry is dried in the sun where the bean can take up some of the fruity sweetness from the cherry pulp, and perhaps this was evident from the small percentage in the blend – there was definitely something good in there and I wish there was more of it. It smelled wonderful (It was roasted on 02/09 – just the day before I bought it!) and did live up to the notes on the package - chocolate, full-bodied. Overall, I think it deserved 5/5 stars for quality and price and I look forward to trying their single origin coffees.For social and environmental impact I’m giving Counter Culture 5/5 “green” stars. That’s right – green stars. You can’t see them yet, but we’ll have them someday - please join in. This rating comes down to the social and environmental responsibility of Counter Culture as a company and the coffee I bought in particular. Starting with the bag that it comes in – it’s compostable! Most bags, even those with paper on the outside, have a non-compostable plastic lining. This one can be composted after you remove the plastic valve and closure tie. The coffee itself is organic and Counter Culture has a third-party-certified direct trade system for fair pricing. They do a great job with transparency, publishing their coffee prices in their sustainability reports – you can even select by country of origin and see prices paid for each farm. Their average (FOB) price paid in 2014 for a single-origin coffee, weighted by poundage, was $3.37. They paid between $4 and $7 per pound Colombian organic coffees.They are essentially carbon neutral for their own operations: they calculate their entire carbon footprint, including travel and shipping, and purchase wind power or finance tree planting to offset it. They also say they are working on reducing energy use - the Emeryville roastery was established partly to reduce shipping from Durham (their only roastery until now). There is clearly still room for improvement – to take one example, they could increase donations to their Seeds program (“supporting projects in coffee-growing communities that improve the natural environment and promote education”) from their current level of one penny per pound of coffee bought. But the nice thing is that they are making an effort to be fully transparent in their reporting (both as hard numbers and also in blog form) and I think they serve as a good example to other companies.
Zakary French
Not always open to public! Seminars like the weekly Tastings at Ten are open invite and visible on the Counter Culture site. Beautiful, minimalist space with super knowledgeable and friendly staff. Great coffee and great insights to be found here.
Stop by every Friday morning for a Tasting at Ten.
Zakary French (Radruler)
Not always open to public! Seminars like the weekly Tastings at Ten are open invite and visible on the Counter Culture site. Beautiful, minimalist space with super knowledgeable and friendly staff. Great coffee and great insights to be found here.
Best coffee in the bay!! Friday tastings rule. Thanx for the great coffee and info!!
What a hidden gem! Amazing coffee, values, and team. Their (free) weekly Friday coffee tastings are my new favorite local activity. Thanks for the treat and coffee facts!
This location isn’t a typical cafe that serves coffee but is open on Fridays weekly at 10am for a free coffee tasting. I dropped by as they were serving a blend sourced from India as well as a tea pairing.
Staff here is super informative / friendly and walks you through the tasting. Glad I was able to make it to one of these sessions!
Wow! Utterly delicious coffee. We ran out the other day and used a price-equivalent brand…disaster. I went out that day and bought a few bags.
Loved it! Grt packaging Easy to carry Tastes gud Must try
Amazing roastery with some of the most complex and ethically sourced coffee in the world ??☕☕??
Amazing roastery with some of the most complex and ethically sourced coffee in the world ??☕☕??
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 for $11 – pretty good for a 12 oz bag compared to some of the other Bay Area “third wave†coffee roasters.
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 for $11 – pretty good for a 12 oz bag compared to some of the other Bay Area “third wave” coffee roasters.It was a strange concoction: a dark roast of blended Colombian and Ethiopian coffees (my bag was 50% Colombia (Los Vascos), 38% Ethiopia yirgacheffe (Idido), and 12% Ethiopia natural sundried (Aramo), but apparently the composition of blend Forty-Six varies over time). I love Ethiopian coffee and I’m pretty sure it’s not common to combine it with Colombian and then give it a dark roast. But it worked! I love natural sundried beans, where the full cherry is dried in the sun where the bean can take up some of the fruity sweetness from the cherry pulp, and perhaps this was evident from the small percentage in the blend – there was definitely something good in there and I wish there was more of it. It smelled wonderful (It was roasted on 02/09 – just the day before I bought it!) and did live up to the notes on the package - chocolate, full-bodied. Overall, I think it deserved 5/5 stars for quality and price and I look forward to trying their single origin coffees.For social and environmental impact I’m giving Counter Culture 5/5 “green” stars. That’s right – green stars. You can’t see them yet, but we’ll have them someday - please join in. This rating comes down to the social and environmental responsibility of Counter Culture as a company and the coffee I bought in particular. Starting with the bag that it comes in – it’s compostable! Most bags, even those with paper on the outside, have a non-compostable plastic lining. This one can be composted after you remove the plastic valve and closure tie. The coffee itself is organic and Counter Culture has a third-party-certified direct trade system for fair pricing. They do a great job with transparency, publishing their coffee prices in their sustainability reports – you can even select by country of origin and see prices paid for each farm. Their average (FOB) price paid in 2014 for a single-origin coffee, weighted by poundage, was $3.37. They paid between $4 and $7 per pound Colombian organic coffees.They are essentially carbon neutral for their own operations: they calculate their entire carbon footprint, including travel and shipping, and purchase wind power or finance tree planting to offset it. They also say they are working on reducing energy use - the Emeryville roastery was established partly to reduce shipping from Durham (their only roastery until now). There is clearly still room for improvement – to take one example, they could increase donations to their Seeds program (“supporting projects in coffee-growing communities that improve the natural environment and promote education”) from their current level of one penny per pound of coffee bought. But the nice thing is that they are making an effort to be fully transparent in their reporting (both as hard numbers and also in blog form) and I think they serve as a good example to other companies.
Not always open to public! Seminars like the weekly Tastings at Ten are open invite and visible on the Counter Culture site. Beautiful, minimalist space with super knowledgeable and friendly staff. Great coffee and great insights to be found here.
Restaurantji Recommends
Stop by every Friday morning for a Tasting at Ten.
Not always open to public! Seminars like the weekly Tastings at Ten are open invite and visible on the Counter Culture site. Beautiful, minimalist space with super knowledgeable and friendly staff. Great coffee and great insights to be found here.
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