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Anarchy Coffee Roasters
About Anarchy Coffee Roasters
Roasting is a different business from pouring, and a company that does both tends to end up on a street like Banks Road rather than on a shopping strip. Anarchy Coffee Roasters works from 310 Banks Rd, in the pocket of light industrial and service buildings tucked behind the Harvey Avenue corridor below Dilworth Mountain.
Buying from a roaster is worth doing deliberately. Roast date matters more than anything printed on the front of a bag, and a week or two off the drum is usually where filter coffee tastes best, so ask when the batch in your hand came out. Grind is the other decision. If you have a grinder at home, take the beans whole; if you do not, say exactly what you are brewing with, because the setting for an espresso machine and the setting for a drip basket are nowhere near each other. Bag sizes, wholesale terms and standing orders differ from one roastery to the next, and a call to 250 878 2099 or a look at anarchycoffeeroasters.com will sort out what applies here before you make the trip.
Banks Road is easy to reach and just as easy to drive straight past. It sits a turn off the main highway route through the city, minutes from downtown and from the Glenmore neighbourhoods on the valley floor, with parking far less fraught than anything near the lake. Coming across from Rutland or down off Black Mountain, this is one of the simpler stops in Kelowna to fold into a run of errands, and the surrounding streets are quiet enough that the loading traffic never really bites.
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