From a impulse we travel by a doorway of Yellow Brick Coffee’s off-the-beaten-path location, it’s apparent you’ve wandered into a place that cares about coffee, coffee knowledge, and many importantly, community.
A cozy, parlor-like run area and a long, wooden community list wave we to dawdle while we sip and season a cafe’s delicately sourced, single-origin brews.
Coffee beans roasting during Yellow Brick Coffee (Credit: Jackie Tran)
Meanwhile, a opposite staff, that mostly includes Yellow Brick’s CEO David Perreira, are discerning to rivet we in a review about brewing techniques, informal origins, roasting styles and more.
Single-origin coffee on-demand roasts
Every crater of coffee has a story to tell, and a folks during Yellow Brick are not usually vehement about that, though creation that believe permitted to everyone.
“Specialty coffee has a notice of being pretentious. It doesn’t have to be. High peculiarity doesn’t have to meant ‘high-quality and snobby’ and we’re committed to creation this believe some-more approachable,” pronounced David.
Coffee beans roasting during Yellow Brick Coffee (Credit: Jackie Tran)
Specializing in single-origin coffee and on-demand roasts, Yellow Brick operates some-more like a qualification brewery than a traditional, industrial coffee roaster.
A clever importance on peculiarity and product traceability is a priority while hand-crafting any fry to best fit a singular inlet and pointed season records of any coffee.
While Yellow Brick’s whole bean and by-the-cup offerings change often, a association consistently offers high-quality regionally sourced coffee varieties from Africa, Mexico, and both South and Central America.
Drip coffee during Yellow Brick Coffee (Credit: Jackie Tran)
Current favorites embody a Ethiopia coffee with pointed floral, fruit and hibiscus notes, an El Salvador coffee mix that is naturally processed with strawberry tough candy and blueberry soda, and a Kenya coffee with black currant and mango.
For those new to exploring and experimenting with opposite flavors of coffee, The Yellow Brick Box is a good option. It’s a sampler of 4 particular 4 unit bags and provides business a practical universe debate of bean varieties.
Passing a torch
Yellow Brick was founded in 2011 by David’s sister, Anna Perreira.
While operative in a New York City financial industry, Anna’s home divided from home was her favorite area cafe-roastery, where she became spooky with training some-more about a origins, history, and scholarship of her daily cup.
With David’s help, she non-stop a company’s cafe-roastery in 2014, eventually withdrawal a company’s day-to-day operations in David’s hands. Since then, a association has grown steadily, never abandoning a first joining to peculiarity and coffee education.
Interior during Yellow Brick Coffee (Credit: Jackie Tran)
Expanding in a community
As it continues to enhance and offer unchanging events, such as tastings and classes during a South Dodge cafeteria location, Yellow Brick has combined a unchanging participation during a Heirloom Farmers Market during Rillito Park.
Yellow Brick also offers subscription services. The innovative use allows a association to build adult a flourishing indiscriminate business among small, internal businesses, as good as many internal food establishments.
When it comes to grill partnerships Yellow Brick is anticipating to change a diversion by focusing on coffee as an altogether partial of a excellent dining experience—much like one would span food with booze or beer.
Pour-over coffee during Yellow Brick Coffee (Credit: Jackie Tran)
With that in mind, Yellow Brick is operative with chefs and grill owners to yield a best varieties and roasts to enrich a singular flavors of their food offerings.
“You never wish to finish a good dish with a bad crater of coffee,” pronounced David.
Yellow Brick is also vehement to be operative on several intriguing initial offerings, including a probable partnership with a folks behind Whiskey Del Bac. In another venture, Yellow Brick is providing a coffee member of a designed cannabis mix during a Tucson-based hospital The Green Halo.
Yellow Brick Coffee spit David Perreira (Credit: Jackie Tran)
Looking brazen to a future
While Yellow Brick has built a constant following even with a apart location, a roastery would adore to have some-more “drop-in” trade and chances to correlate with a coffee extraordinary public.
Looking ahead, David says that a association hopes to launch a flagship plcae that is some-more available and permitted to existent and destiny customers. Whether that will meant a second plcae or a pierce for a existent roastery stays to be determined.
“We unequivocally wish to find a right place for Yellow Brick, and demeanour brazen to opening a place really distinguished in a nearby future.”
Yellow Brick Coffee, located during 3220 S. Dodge Blvd., Suite 1, and is open from 7 a.m. – 2 p.m. Monday – Friday.
For some-more information, including sum on arriving roasting and cupping classes, revisit yellowbrickcoffee.com or call a emporium during (520) 226-4068.