Inside Counter Culture’s New Bay Area Roastery and Training Center

Counter Culture Coffee took a big step in its ongoing Westward expansion this past weekend with the opening of its new Bay Area roastery and training lab, a 12,000-plus square-foot facility at 1329 64th Street in Emeryville. It is the importer and roaster’s ninth regional training center (Durham, Asheville, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.), and Counter Culture […]

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Now Brewing and Ping-Ponging in D.C.’s Park View: Colony Club

Colony Club, a new coffee bar, craft drinks bar and ping-pongery, opened last week in Park View, an historic Washington D.C. neighborhood just north of Howard University. Commercial activity along Park View’s main artery, Georgia Avenue, has ebbed and flowed over the decades, and Colony Club is tucked in amongst numerous redevelopment projects at 3118 Georgia Ave. “We hope that […]

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Peet’s Acquires Mighty Leaf Tea, Opens and Closes Midwest Stores

Peet’s Coffee & Tea has acquired Mighty Leaf Tea in partnership with the private investment firm Next World Group for an undisclosed amount. Mighty Leaf, which like Peet’s has a corporate headquarters in the Bay Area, will continue to operate independently, but will “have full access to Peet’s resources, capabilities and scale,” Peet’s said in an announcement Friday. Next World […]



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D.C. Roastery Vigilante Coffee Opens First Public Outpost in Hyatsville

After two years of building wholesale accounts and putting in time at farmers markets, flea markets and pop ups, Washington D.C.’s Vigilante Coffee is opening a brick-and-mortar roastery and small bar in Hyatsville, Md. The grand opening is scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, July 19, at the Vigilante Coffee Co. Roastery and Cafe, located in a former Ford Model-T dealership at […]



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Katie Carguilo to Help Lead Counter Culture Coffee’s Westward Charge

Of Counter Culture Coffee‘s eight existing regional training center’s, the Chicago outpost its Westernmost. That’s about to change big time, as the company is moving “fully into the West,” in the words of CCC’s Katie Carguilo, who has recently been assigned the title West Coast Coffee Analyst, a new leadership role within the expanding company’s Coffee Department. After beginnings at […]



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