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Guess youve been wondering what happened to our blog? We've been really busy and heres the first update: Read More

I stole a (former) Starbucks Employee!

A few months a go I mentioned a guy named Geoff had come into the roastery and blogged about his visit. Soon after, Geoff and I started talking about him working at Detour and taking over the roasting. Over the course of a few months Geoff spent a few late nights with me learning the ins and outs of our roaster and for the last few weeks has been doing it all on his own. First off, I’m very glad to have found him and through our combined efforts, we have been making new discoveries and improvements to our roasts. Read More

Santa, did you tag my doors?

O.K., it wasn’t him and he looks tired. A friend of mine sent this to me when they were filming a Christmas movie right in front of our building. First off, we have decided to open our doors more often for all of you who think coffee is the best present you could get someone (isn’t it?)! Read More

The Neglected Blog…finally an update!

Wow, so I’ve been really neglectful not updating this blog. I’ve had a draft saved for too long now, the next post in my trip with the roaster late last year (which seems so long ago), I’ll post it soon but for now I’m giving a very long update Read More

Across the continent with a coffee Roaster – Missoula to Rapid City

…Well, I’ve been meaning to finish up the travelogue, so here we go. Waking up in Missoula, I saw the city for the first time in the daytime. It was a cold morning and espressomap.com had advised me that this was probably the last place for a while where I might find some good coffee. Read More

Openings

Well, it was a long road getting here but on Easter weekend we officially opened the roastery to the public. The last few weeks leading up to opening (besides working long days in my normal job) were spent getting things ready and tweaking roast profiles. We featured five coffees for the launch Read More