Carson Lynch and partner Bet Black make coffee divert in their new prolongation facility.
It’s called Rocket Fuel for a reason.
A few slugs of Carson Lynch’s potion, done with dim fry coffee, caramelized sugarine and Maine dairy, delivers lift off. Since attack a marketplace 9 years ago, Rocket Fuel has steadily powered a approach opposite New England.
“Coffee divert is a New England tradition, though it had depressed off in awareness,” pronounced Lynch, a former owners of The Gorham Grind, where Rocket Fuel launched in 2008. “Because of a marketplace success we were prepared to grow.”
Lynch pours coffee syrup in his new Biddeford facility.
Since 2011 Rocket Fuel sales has increasing fivefold. Last year he sole $54,000 of a high-test tonic. With a new prolongation trickery adult and using in Biddeford and accounts in Massachusetts such as Whole Foods Market and Roche Bros. backing up, he expects to double that this year.
“Out of nowhere there came a burst in recognition for a drink. Folks started roving from Portland to Gorham for Rocket Fuel,” he said. And when he couldn’t keep up, “the light went off and we pronounced we need to concentration on this.”
Lynch found a partner, combined a new association called Constellation Beverage, purchased a former deli in Biddeford in March, and sealed a Gorham cafeteria in early May. Expanding from a 350-square-foot prolongation space to 1,200 block feet nearby University of New England gives him room to grow.
“Most coffee milks ambience like divert coffee,” pronounced Lynch, “this is coffee milk, confidant and honeyed with staying power.” With a caffeine homogeneous of adult to 3 espresso shots, it packs a punch. “I wanted this divert to be coffee forward.”
Sold cold, frothed latte character or as a cocktail with Jameson whiskey, it’s a exile strike on a brunch circuit.
“It is really popular. We run out each week,” pronounced Lloyd Yesberger, horde during Bayside American Cafe in Portland. “It’s dangerous.”
But not too dangerous. Aware that some black coffee drinkers are wavering to imbibe, his recipe is attuned (much like his business plan) to reveal delayed and steady. “The lift from a splash is a prolonged arc and not a spike and crash,” he said.
In Oct Lynch skeleton to open Grounds Control, 169 Pool St, Biddeford, as a cafeteria and coffee divert tasting room.