We are nonetheless catching our breath after the vacations, however we wish to glance again on 2019 earlier than it fades too a ways into the rearview… it was once a large 12 months for us!
We are proud to have won accolades from the Excellent Meals Basis, Meals & Wine mag, Espresso Overview, and others for the standard of our espresso. In the meantime, more than a few upcoming initiatives have us very excited for the approaching 12 months.
Maximum necessary, harvests from our Direct Industry companions Finca El Socorro (Guatemala), Los angeles Palma y El Tucán (Colombia), Finca Los Planes (El Salvador), Café Granja Los angeles Esperanza (Colombia), Finca Santa Maria (Colombia), Finca Las Mercedes (El Salvador), Finca Villa Loyola (Colombia), and Hacienda Los angeles Esmeralda (Panama) blew us away in 2019. We will be able to’t wait to look what those manufacturers have in retailer for us in 2020!
Here is a glance again on some highlights of the 12 months:
– Our roast of Hacienda Los angeles Esmeralda Mario Herbal is a finalist for the 2020 Excellent Meals Awards, spotting high quality in addition to social and environmental sustainability. Winners in each and every class shall be introduced this month.
– Espresso Overview awarded 95 Issues to Sudan Rume Herbal from Café Granja Los angeles Esperanza and named it the #3 Espresso of 2019. It was once additionally featured on Uncrate following Espresso Overview’s top ranking. Should you ignored out on Sudan Rume this 12 months, do not be disturbed: we think the brand new harvest to reach subsequent month!
– Espresso Overview awarded 93 Issues to Finca Las Mercedes Los angeles Avila SL28. This was once some of the first viable harvests of the lot, so we are very excited to look the way it develops over the approaching years.
– Meals & Wine referred to as us “some of the nation’s maximum influential espresso roasters” of their roundup of the Very best Espresso in Each and every State 2019.
– Equipment Patrol named PT’s some of the 25 Very best Espresso Roasters in The usa, calling us “a craft espresso stalwart with a stacked trophy case.” (Their photograph of our bag of Maracaturra is on the most sensible of this web page.)
– We opened two new cafes: a swish coffee bar in downtown Kansas Town (pictured above) and a full-service cafe and eating place, entire with a drive-thru, in Topeka’s Wheatfield Village. Each are open 7 days every week.
– In the meantime, plans are coming in combination for our subsequent cafe, in a mid-century former fuel station in Overland Park, KS.
– It was once a really perfect 12 months for collaborations with different native companies! We labored with the Topeka Whiskey Society on a scrumptious bourbon barrel-aged espresso, which is to be had now in restricted amounts at our cafes. Again within the springtime native brewery Satisfied Bassett Brewing used our Chilly Entrance Signature Mix for his or her common Barista Blonde Ale. Espresso-infused chocolate bars produced in collaboration with Topeka-based Hazel Hill Chocolate are within the works!
– Our cafe in downtown KC started a composting program with KC Can Compost, a company that employs previously homeless other folks in a supportive paintings setting and decreases waste produced through KC’s cafes, bars, and eating places.
– We reached extra shoppers than ever on-line. Thanks for opting for PT’s!
What do you wish to see from PT’s in 2020? Go away a remark under to tell us! Or, as all the time, be happy to shoot us an e mail: information@ptscoffee.com.
