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Craft 42 Roasters
About Craft 42 Roasters
Roasting is where coffee actually gets its character, long before anyone reaches for a grinder. Craft 42 Roasters works out of 1178 High Road in Kelowna, and roasters in general occupy an interesting middle ground, part production and part retail, often selling beans by the bag to households and by the case to cafes and offices around a city.
Buying from a roaster rather than off a shelf gets you a better cup if you ask a few questions. Ask what was roasted most recently and how long the beans have rested, since freshness here is measured in weeks rather than months. Ask what roast level a given coffee is finished at and which brewing method it was developed for, because a bean dialled in for espresso can taste thin through a filter. Say what equipment you use at home, and ask for beans whole if you own a grinder, as grinding to order beats grinding in advance every time. Subscriptions, wholesale pricing and reusable packaging are all worth raising if you go through coffee steadily.
Kelowna has grown into the service centre for the whole valley, and small food and drink producers have found room in that alongside the tourism and wine trades that bring people in. For orders, or to ask what is currently in the roaster, the number is 289-339-4020, and the current range sits at craft42roasters.ca. Coffee keeps best in a cool dark cupboard rather than a freezer, which matters through an Okanagan July when a bag left in a hot car loses more than a week of freshness.
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