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Have a crater of joe with decoction brothers Nelson and Andrew Lewis, a owners of Coffee on a Red in Bossier City.
The equine veterinarians by trade have channeled their passion for uninformed roasts to launch a new business and radical classroom.
Coffee on a Red—a name desirous by a vicinity to a Red River—is located during 100 Greenacres Blvd. off Benton Road in Bossier City. The coffee emporium is conveniently grouped in a quarrel of other businesses including Raceway gas station, AutoBody Express, and a automobile mall.
The coffee emporium offers an collection of coffees, teas, lemonade, and locally done baked goods.
The menu facilities hot, cold, and nitro decoction coffees, season and iced coffee, espresso drinks, and frozen espresso blends. The Red Wave, Velvet Topped Cold Brew, House Cream Shakerato, and Creme Frappe are a few signature selections.
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The tea inventory offers a accumulation of renouned loose-leaf tea flavors, such as Earl Grey, Organic Green, Jasmine, Hibiscus, and Pomeberry. Specialty teas options embody Chai or Green Tea Latte or customer-choice mix for a Iced Lunar Tea, Nitro Lunar Tea, and Iced Lunar Tea Lemonade.
Non-caffeinated drinks embody a Italian Iced Lemonade.
Custom requests are acquire and add-ons are available.
Coffee on a Red’s soothing opening began on Monday with drive-thru-only service, due to a coronavirus pestilence mandates. The hours of operations are temporarily condensed though gradually stretched any week as staff employing and training continues.
Currently, a business hours are 6 a.m. to noon from Monday by Saturday. The emporium will be sealed on Sundays.
Coffee on a Red maintains a firmness of a beverages by creation peculiarity and mutation a priority.
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“All of a mixture are top-quality ingredients,” Nelson Lewis said. “We’re not going to be sacrificing mixture to urge a distinction margin. It’s not going to happen.”
The coffee is roasted to order. Coffee beans are orders frequently from GEVA Coffee in Houston, belligerent immediately, and brewed within dual weeks of being roasted to say freshness, Lewis said.
“Coffee is a produce. The some-more it sits on a shelf, a some-more it loses a flavor,” he said.
The menu facilities variations of renouned coffee drinks, though with a opposite turn in taste, he said. The baristas take measures to equivocate burnt or sour tastes. Everything’s handmade, he said, and no apparatus is automated—espresso machines have handles tranquil by baristas against to a push-button system.
In early ambience tests, business who typically don’t like a ambience of black coffee have enjoyed theirs and there were few requests from others for additional sweeteners, Lewis said.
“The healthy sugars of a divert element a coffee,” he said.
Cold-brew coffees are brewed on normal for 16 hours. Cold-brew teas are steeped overnight.
“They’re steeped 10 to 12 hours as against to 4 mins over prohibited H2O and it’s a totally opposite flavor,” he said.
Coffee on a Red is partnering with Whisk Dessert Bar’s Chef Blake Jackson to offer uninformed honeyed and delicious pastries and baked products that will element a libation menu. No food will be solidified or pre-cooked and a delicately curated preference will rotate, Lewis said.
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Classic muffins, scones, and cookies are options, though Jackson will take liberties to whip adult singular creations. A integrate of delicious picks are kolaches with freshly-made buns with an choice of smoked duck or pepper preserve or Sample Farms’ sausage. Sweet treats to try are a cinnamon streusel muffin and honeyed potato muffins, chocolate chip scone, lemon wrinkle cookie, and a tiger armandes.
To perspective a full menu, visit coffeeonthered.com.
Coffee upsurge and education
Coffee on a Red was built from a belligerent adult with a Lewis brothers putting suspicion into any aspect of a pattern and a shop’s functions.
The building possesses a purify pattern with section and nation timber accents and vast windows permitting for healthy sunlight. Natural timber tables and chairs are prepped for dine-in customers, as good as a friendly alcove of high-back leather chairs and a sofa. The high-chair bar opposite puts guest during a forefront of a baristas during work. A tucked-away discussion room is versed with a list sourroundings for private meetings and gatherings. Patio seating is to come.
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Coffee on a Red is devised to be a source of handcrafted, peculiarity products, and a matter for preparation and community.“I’ve always wanted to have something like this, though we wanted another level,” Lewis said.
For several years, Lewis complicated coffee shops opposite a nation and deliberate how he could raise a indication with accents of enlightenment and song of a New Orleans jazz bar blended with an atmosphere of local fine-dining restaurants, he said.
Coffee on a Red is dictated to be a place where guest not usually splash coffee though leave with durability lessons about a craft.
“We wish to teach people on a differences in coffee, how we can have unequivocally good coffee during home, and how we can have unequivocally good coffee during a emporium if we only do some small things to urge it,” Lewis said.
The retail line will embody finished coffees for at-home brewing.
Once a coffee emporium is in full operational mode, guest might design interactive practice such as live song sets by internal artists and “Coffee Cuppings” led by consultant baristas.
Coffee Cuppings are tasting sessions in that guest might representation a moody of coffee and learn about any roast’s start and season profiles from House mix to Guatemalan to Ethiopian and more. Educational events will be hosted to denote how to urge coffee done during home during a low cost, Lewis said.
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“You can make good season coffee and pour-over coffee during home that will blow those other things away,” he said. “You’re going to get that training sourroundings and you’re going to know because you’re celebration that specialty coffee.”
At Coffee on a Red, guest will come for a ambience of a coffee and stay for a environment, Lewis said.
“Our large idea is to unequivocally be happy and illuminate that behind to people,” he said. “Just have a unequivocally cold experience… If we like to get what you’re profitable for you’re going to like entrance here.”
If we go
What: Coffee on a Red
Where: 100 Greenacres Blvd., Bossier City
Hours: 6 a.m. to noon Monday by Saturday
Closed Sunday
(Hours theme to change)
Info: For some-more information, revisit coffeeonthered.com or follow facebook.com/coffeeonthered/ or call (318) 935-0639.