Coffee Project NY Gets Busy with Roastery, Retail Bar and Training Campus in LIC

The new sell bar during a Coffee Project NY roastery and training campus in Long Island City, New York. Photo by Peter Ng, pleasantness of CPNY.

New York City-based on-going specialty coffee association Coffee Project NY has non-stop a third sell plcae inside a 3,750-square-foot space in Long Island City. The trickery will shortly also residence a company’s roasting operation, as good as a usually Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) Premier Training Campus in New York, tentative approval.

Co-owners Chi Sum Ngai and Kaleena Teoh non-stop a new emporium in 21-10 51st Ave in distant south Queens in Dec with considerable spreads of apparatus for sell and for training. On a bar of a compress 350-square-foot cafeteria space, a Victoria Arduino Mythos 2 grinder breaks beans in a run-up to descent on a Sanremo Café Racer Renegade espresso machine.

A Voga Ground Control Cyclops works a sorcery on incomparable batches of joe, while some-more counsel drips are achieved manually on Chemex, Origami, V60 and Kalita Wave brewers.

In a new lab, another Voga machine, a Ground Control Twin, brews exploratory batches alongside a some-more normal Fetco collection brewer. A Compak PK 100 grinder and a Faema Groundbreaker millstone contest for a honors of prepping grinds for shots pulled on a rigging geek’s dream swift of 4 espresso machines: a Faema E71E, a Sanremo Opera, a La Marzocco Linea Classic and a Victoria Arduino Black Eagle.

An Ikawa representation roaster is also benefaction in a 1,500-square-foot lab for tinkering with profiles and training about a processes staid to reveal in a new 1,000-square-foot CPNY roastery, where a 1-pound representation spit will lay a grounds for batches in a 25-pound-capacity San Franciscan SF25 prolongation roaster. Currently a company’s roasting takes place circuitously in a Regalia Roasting Collective.

Photo by Peter Ng, pleasantness of CPNY.

“We wanted a space to feel open and welcoming, so a partitions between a roastery, sell coffee bar and training lab are especially glass,” Ngai told Daily Coffee News. “The lighting that we chose for a sell coffee bar shines on a barista since we wanted to approach people’s pleasantness to a baristas’ skills.”

Lighting in a training lab is privately designed for several functions such as holding classes and training exercises, while red feeling exam lighting can be used during triangulations in Q grading and recreational classes.

Photo by Peter Ng, pleasantness of CPNY.

“There is a large, internal assembly for classes here since New York is so densely populated,” pronounced Ngai. “A lot of coffee attention professionals come by New York City for work and vacations and we wish they will cruise holding classes with us during those periods, too.”

Ngai and Teoh, both of whom are Authorized SCA Trainers (ASTs), will primarily be a teachers for both a SCA and recreational classes. Over time, Ngai pronounced she hopes additional staff members will join into a training revolution in sequence to offer some-more visit courses. CPNY is coordinating with Texas-based Gather Coffee Company to offer Q grading and Q cupping essentials classes.

“I am operative on removing my Q instructor license, [but] it will be a while before we validate to learn a class,” pronounced Ngai. “We are open to collaborating with other like-minded instructors and trainers so we can offer these Q classes some-more often, too.”

Photo by Peter Ng, pleasantness of CPNY.

While a new trickery supposing an fatiguing exclamation indicate to Coffee Project NY’s 2019, this year should be only as action-packed for a CPNY team, with mixed members purebred for a several 2020 US Coffee Championships events. Ngai pronounced a company’s fourth sell judgment is also scheduled to open this year.

Said Ngai, “Suffice to say, 2020 will be a bustling year and everybody on staff feels challenged in a good approach with all a new opportunities.”

Coffee Project NY is now open during 21-10 51st Ave. in Long Island City, Queens.