Inside the brand new Cafe Kreyol roastery and manufacturing headquarters in Manassas, Virginia. All photographs courtesy of Cafe Kreyol.

Virginia-based Café Kreyol, the 2023 Roast journal Roaster of the Yr within the macro class, not too long ago relocated into an expanded manufacturing facility.

Spanning greater than 10,000 sq. ft inside an industrial complicated in Manassas, the brand new manufacturing headquarters contains the manufacturing roastery with a Loring S70 Peregrine roaster, packaging tools, inexperienced espresso warehousing and storage, places of work, a quality-control and cupping lab, and lecture rooms.

“We have been already busting on the seams in 2022, and once we gained Roaster of the Yr, our enterprise grew dramatically,” Cafe Kreyol President Joseph Stazzone not too long ago advised DCN. “We greater than doubled in measurement for our manufacturing in a yr, which we have been now not in a position to sustain with.”

Cafe Kreyol plans to make use of its new cupping laboratory to host Espresso High quality Institute  (CQI) sanctioned courses, and in addition to host shopping for events related to the Cup of Excellence inexperienced espresso competitors.

Cafe Kreyol maintains an bold direct-trading program, growing long-term, equitable relationships with espresso producers, whereas additionally specializing in high-end microlots. The corporate has constructed partnerships with producer teams in much less frequent espresso origins similar to Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with a acknowledged mission to assist alleviate poverty in coffee-growing communities. Cafe Kreyol additionally imports and sells inexperienced espresso.

Along with opening alternatives for instructional programming, the transfer into the bigger facility may also enable for expanded inexperienced espresso operations.

Stated Stazzone, “We have now been engaged on rising our presence in Ethiopia, and sharing these particular coffees an increasing number of with our clients.”

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