Typically you get the bear. Typically the bear will get you.

However on the new Little Bear Espresso in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an inclusive and supportive strategy to espresso has made for an important cafe expertise that’s open to everybody. This cafe opened earlier this yr and joins a small cub-grouping of Little Bear places throughout the better ABQ space. Let’s take a more in-depth look.

The 2024 Construct-Outs of Espresso is introduced by Ceado and Dona. The 2024 Construct-Outs of Espresso is sponsored by Pacific Barista Collection, La Marzocco, Acaia, and Ghirardelli. 

As informed to Sprudge by Sarah Gonzales.

For many who aren’t acquainted, will you inform us about your organization?

Little Bear Espresso is a specialty espresso firm and roastery serving fully-traceable, ethically-sourced, specialty-grade espresso in Albuquerque, since 2017. With the slogan, Love Individuals Use Espresso, Little Bear works to be an inclusive, supportive house for the group and supply an expertise as nice as their espresso. Little Bear espresso has three cafes in Albuquerque: the unique cafe in Uptown, the commercial, transformed classic storage cafe in Nob Hill on historic Route 66, and the intense and ethereal Civic Plaza location in Downtown Albuquerque. Little Bear’s ardour for good drink goes past espresso; within the evenings the Nob Hill cafe turns into Little Bear PM, a viby pure wine bar serving premiere pure wines, beer, and cocktails.

Are you able to inform us a bit concerning the new house?

This cafe’s house and inside attracts inspiration from nature and is curated to have a unique really feel and id from its previous cafes. The house is ethereal, stuffed with pure mild, muted earth tones, walled with leafy, inexperienced vegetation, and includes a customized work from Marquez Torres and a collaboration piece with Torres and NEO THREAD. It’s a quaint cafe, excellent for catching up with associates or coworkers, a relaxed espresso break or studying a great ebook underneath the fronds of the foxtail palm tree. We take into account it Little Bear’s prettiest cafe but.

 

What’s your strategy to espresso?

We’re people-people over coffee-people. However we’re additionally, very a lot so, coffee-people.

We’re proud to deliberately and ethically supply all of our coffees. We’re constantly creating direct partnerships and friendships with producers and farmers to make sure that each espresso we buy primarily advantages the people concerned in its manufacturing. At Little Bear, distinctive taste must be a given, however the most effective coffees are those that purposefully enhance the communities they arrive from.

At Little Bear Espresso, we work to carry the most effective coffees the world has to supply and create areas which are as thoughtfully-designed as they’re welcoming; all in an effort to encourage extra shared moments and make new associates.

Our ethos is easy: Love Individuals, Use Espresso.

Any machines, coffees, particular gear lined up?

We now have a few new coffees hitting the cabinets, one we’re enthusiastic about is a Java from Colombia. Our Colombia Huila La Bonita is fruit-forward and extremely distinctive within the cup; with notes of passionfruit, inexperienced apple sweet, and guava. It got here extremely beneficial by our producer and buddy, Luis, and it doesn’t disappoint!

Our gear:
Espresso machine – Synesso S200
Grinders – Mahlkönig EK43, E65S, K30
Brewers – Fetco CBS
Pour overs – Hario Swap, V60
Water – Reverse osmosis filtration system

How is your challenge contemplating sustainability?

A whole lot of consideration and intention went into the planning and constructing of this cafe. We labored exhausting to protect and make the most of a lot of the present supplies, gear, and structure for minimal development waste.

Moreover, this yr, we had been proud to seek out companions and make the swap to completely recyclable to-go cups and retail espresso baggage. Considerably decreasing sediment waste for on-line gross sales and in all three of our cafes.

What’s your hopeful goal opening date/month?

We had our grand opening earlier this yr on January twenty fifth, 2024

Are you working with craftspeople, architects, and/or creatives that you just’d like to say?

There have been so many unbelievable and proficient people that introduced life to this cafe. We’d like to say: Isaac Fox designer, visionary and craftsman, Tim Fox woodworking sage, Josh Vaive serving to hand and jack of all trades, and artists and associates NEO THREAD and Marquez Torres aka Wishbone Ink.

Thanks!

Thanks in your time!

The 2024 Construct-Outs of Espresso is introduced by Ceado and Dona. The 2024 Construct-Outs of Espresso is sponsored by Pacific Barista Collection, La Marzocco, Acaia, and Ghirardelli.