A lineup of Kea Espresso Roasters coffees. All pictures courtesy of Kea Espresso Roasters.

Canadian specialty espresso hatchling Kea Espresso Roasters has unfold its wings in mountainous British Columbia, providing freshly roasted coffees guided by a spirit of curiosity. 

Referencing an alpine parrot species native to the South Island of New Zealand, the espresso firm that launched in April combines an appreciation for Kiwi espresso tradition and a rotating line of espresso field units beneath the title Discover. 

“One of many issues that excites me most about espresso is the massive vary of taste prospects which might be there to be explored,” Kea Espresso Roasters Founder and Roaster Matt Burns advised Each day Espresso Information. “We at all times need our roasts to focus on every espresso’s distinctive traits and qualities.”

Kea’s preliminary choices are at the moment in flight to clients all through Canada and america. The Discover sequence will proceed to supply a set of three coffees hailing from a single nation, area or farm, but that includes notable distinctions within the cup. The inaugural Discover set consists of three natural-process coffees from Ethiopia. 

Kea Espresso Roasters Founder Matt Burns.

“There’s numerous methods we may go along with the Discover sequence and I’m excited to see how that evolves,” mentioned Burns. “I actually like the concept of 1 varietal from one farm, processed three other ways. One other one I’m actually enthusiastic about doing is a number of varietals from one farm. It’s all about discovering the precise coffees, although, and the precise producers.”

The Discover line will rotate each three months or so, relying on logistics and availability. 

Burns involves the espresso enterprise with a background in net design and advertising and marketing, plus some foodservice and barista expertise in his earlier days. 

“Kea Espresso Roasters actually began as a passion that acquired manner out of hand,” mentioned Burns, who spent years consuming YouTube and web content material created by respected sources to study the roasting craft. “I hope I can convey all of these experiences and classes realized alongside the best way, to assist make Kea Espresso Roasters a enjoyable, partaking and approachable firm that prioritizes superior espresso experiences and makes them simply accessible for everybody.”

For Burns, the enjoyable started in New Zealand, the island nation that boasts impressively excessive per capita numbers of specialty cafes and roasteries.  

“Once we determined to arrange an organization to share the coffees we love with everybody, my thoughts simply saved going again to the place all of it started,” mentioned Burns. “It was New Zealand’s epic cafe tradition that first acquired me into espresso.”

Now the wearer of all hats at Kea, Burns mentioned he’s already hoping to relocate manufacturing into a bigger facility by early subsequent yr. Within the meantime, the main target is on rising the model and piquing the curiosities of extra new specialty espresso drinkers.

“We’ve acquired heaps we need to do to assist make the positioning much more helpful and a enjoyable place to come back and find out about and discover espresso,” mentioned Burns. “Alongside that, we’re additionally engaged on our wholesale program, to place Kea Espresso on cabinets and brew bars the place folks can get an ideal sense of what we’re all about.”

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