Ellefson Coffee Co., a boutique coffee code of MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson, is holding a grand opening of a brick-and-mortar store this weekend (April 7-9) in David‘s former hometown of Jackson, Minnesota (population: 3,299).
In further to Ellefson himself, today’s festivities featured a special uest coming by comedian and “That Metal Show” co-host Don Jamieson. Check out video footage below. On arrangement during Ellefson Coffee Co. is a “Museum Of Deth,” featuring henceforth displayed artifacts and memorabilia from Ellefson‘s personal collection, including highlights such as David‘s Jackson High marching rope uniform, as good as memorabilia from other artists, including MACHINE HEAD, Max Cavalera (SEPULTURA, SOULFLY), COAL CHAMBER, and associate 2017 Grammy nominees KORN. In further to portion a accumulation of tradition blends of Ellefson Coffee Co. brands, including Roast In Peace, She Wolf, Kenya Thrash, and Urban Legend, Ellefson Coffee Co. is a sell opening for Ellefson coffee products and memorabilia, as good as a satellite sell opening for titles and sell from Ellefson‘s EMP Label Group. Additionally, a store will act as an central tradesman for Jackson Guitars and SIT Strings, as good as name equipment from Puck Hcky, Dean Guitars and more. Ellefson Coffee Co. creatively non-stop in Jan as a partnership between Ellefson and Susan Reiter, who concluded to rebrand her shop, Coffee Choices, as Ellefson Coffee Co. You can compensate Ellefson Coffee Co. a revisit during 404 Second St., Jackson, MN, 56143. Ellefson, 52, was innate and lifted in Jackson, located nearby a Iowa border, only underneath 3 hours southwest of St. Paul. He and his family have lived in Scottsdale, Arizona given 1993. Asked by Metal Insider final year how a thought of carrying his possess line of coffee came about, Ellefson said: “I’ve been a coffee lover, a coffee fiend even during times, for many of my adult life. The time we initial had it as a teenager, we didn’t caring for it. But by a time we changed to Cali, we used to go to [former MEGADETH drummer] Dijon Carruthers‘s residence and we would lay around and splash coffee. In a unequivocally beginning days of MEGADETH, summer and tumble of 1983, Dijon indeed got me into coffee. And he and we became friends and low-pitched buddies, and coffee was arrange of a decoction between us. As coffee grew on via a years in America, a Starbucks series happened. What we favourite about that was a coherence of coffee. we remember a initial time we had Starbucks coffee was when we still lived in Los Angeles. A plcae non-stop and it had this coffeehouse experience. The final few years furloughed with MEGADETH, we done debate videos and a speed of a day was to find a nearest Starbucks. Part of it was about a adore of coffee, partial of it was this knowledge of a coffeehouse culture.” He continued: “Me and my EMP Label Group team, we were articulate about coffee and we was introduced to Paul Waggoner, who has Parliament Coffee Roasters and is also a guitar actor in BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME. He and we struck adult a genuine good coffee friendship. we didn’t even know he played in that band. A crony had given me a introduction, so we strike him adult and we had some email exchanges and finally we got on a phone and talked about coffee and struck adult a friendship. He sent me some beans and we satisfied he and we had identical tastes and we can speak about intricacies of coffee and we totally follow any other’s cues on a flavors and branding. Because he’s a metalhead and knows my world, we have a lot in common. It’s a unequivocally cold try that we have, so we branded Ellefson Coffee Company as a possess association and we used Paul to source my beans and to do my roasting. We launched it with online orders. Unlike wine, when we wish things to perturbation and a longer it sits, a improved it tastes, we wish coffee to be roasted immediately and shipped to your door. What we are doing now, we are holding orders and afterwards about each dual weeks we fry and afterwards boat immediately so when it shows adult to your door, it’s uninformed from a roaster.”
