San Diego Espresso Legend Returns with Chuck’s Roast and Patton ConsultingDaily Espresso Information through Roast Mag

October 29, 2024

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Chuck Patton on the helm of a Giesen WS1 within a shared house on the Espresso Cycle roastery in San Diego. Courtesy picture.

A pioneering determine within the San Diego espresso scene within the early 2000s and 2010s lately re-emerged with a brand new roasting industry and a twin center of attention on small-batch, top of the range coffees and seed-to-cup training and consulting.

Chuck Patton, who based San Diego’s Chook Rock Espresso Roasters in 2002 and grew it into an award-winning roastery and small cafe chain, final month introduced a boutique roasting logo known as Chuck’s Roast. The sibling industry is Patton Espresso Consulting, in which Patton will be offering cuppings, espresso critiques, roasting categories and different products and services.

Each companies mirror Patton’s reignited interest for espresso following a temporary hiatus from the business. Patton bought Chook Rock to fellow espresso entrepreneur Jeff Taylor of PT’s Roasting in 2017, and shortly after left the espresso industry.

“I surely wanted a wreck from espresso so after the sale I went again to instructing English composition at USD,” Patton stated. “After a few 12 months, the considered dipping again into the espresso industry began to take grasp. Numerous ‘what-ifs’ began to shape: What if I may just do it on an ultra-small scale? What if I may just handiest roast coffees I truly like? What if I made espresso training paramount?”

With on-line gross sales, Chuck’s Roast is involved in small batches of single-origin coffees. The corporate is debuting with a unmarried roasted espresso from Yemen sourced via Cafe Imports.

“With this logo, I get again to what were given me serious about espresso within the first position: discovering that tremendous espresso, running to expand a right kind roast profile for it after which turning other folks directly to it,” Patton lately instructed DCN. “I’m really not going to fret about discovering a espresso that everybody will like. In keeping with the scale of this operation, I will be able to now not be doing blends, decaf, or darkish roasts, nor will I be apprehensive about purchasing a espresso this is ‘too dear.’ If I don’t truly love the espresso, it gained’t be bought by the use of Chuck’s Roast.”

The brand new house of Chuck’s roast is if truth be told within the new Ocean Seaside cafe and roastery of San Diego-born Espresso Cycle Roasting (DCN hopes to have extra in this quickly). Espresso Cycle founder Chris O’Brien was once a Chook Rock worker of 7 years ahead of putting out on his personal in Pacific Seaside.

Within, Patton is roasting on a devoted Giesen W1S system that he purchased and imported throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and had since been sitting crated in his storage.

“[Chris] has performed an excellent activity rising his logo over the previous few years and has evolved an improbable following,” Patton stated. “When he began to construct out his new roastery/cafe in Ocean Seaside a number of months in the past, he reached out to me to look if I sought after to put in the Giesen there, and I’m happy he did.”

Whilst a lot of the early luck at Chook Rock may well be attributed to Patton’s personal interest for inexperienced espresso sourcing and direct buying and selling actions, Patton stated he plans to loosen up a little extra at the sourcing entrance.

“I will be able to be depending on one of the higher espresso importers who I’ve labored with prior to now, and I’m having a look ahead to running with one of the more moderen inexperienced espresso firms in the market as neatly who didn’t exist once we bought,” Patton stated. “I will be able to do no less than one or two starting place journeys consistent with 12 months, most commonly prone to Guatemala and Panama and most likely Colombia as soon as my quantity justifies it.”

At the training/consulting facet, Patton stated he additionally plans to wreck reasonably from the business norms.

“The espresso roasting categories will range a little from what others are providing lately and shall be extra cost effectively priced,” he stated. “I’m additionally providing advertising and marketing session to espresso farms at starting place.”

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