10 Speed Coffee-Calabasas
Curator’s note
Coffee is the fourth thing this building does, after dinner, a full bar and a bike shop, and at the counter it comes out narrow: espresso, batch drip, a 48-hour cold brew, no manual brew at all. The Colombia carbonic-honey co-ferment cold brew is the one lot-specific coffee on the board.
Brewed from 10 Speed's own Kickstand Blend, roasted in house: juicy red berry and milk chocolate in a full-bodied cup with smooth acidity.
Eggs, bacon, yellow cheddar, arugula, herb aioli, and grilled sourdough.
The coffee
The whole brand's coffee roasts here in micro-batches on a five-kilo Probat, with region, process, and tasting notes published across four retail bags including the Mexico Oaxaca Pluma Juquila and a Kickstand blend of Ethiopia and Guatemala. No bag lists a roast date, and the Mexico bag's own description currently says the coffee is from Ethiopia.
- Kickstand Blend
red berry · milk chocolate
- Mexico Oaxaca Pluma Juquila
- Typica Pluma, Bourbon
- Fully washed and dried in sun
- Smallholder farmers living near neighboring towns
mango · dark chocolate
- Papua New Guinea Arufa Natural
- Blue Mountain, Arusha, Mundo Novo, Bourbon
- Full natural and dried on raised beds
- Producers around Kagamuga Dry Mill
strawberry · lemon curd · brown sugar
- Honduras Mercedes Natural
- Parainema, Pacas, Catuai, Icatu
- Anaerobically fermented natural
- 280 farmers organized around Mercedes
dried cherry · banana · white wine
- Guatemala Swiss Water (Decaf)
- Washed and decaffeinated at the Swiss Water facility in Vancouver, BC.
- Cooperatively grown
medium bodied · dark chocolate
The room
Charlie Pyott Design drew close to a hundred pieces for this room inside Pedalers Fork (the drip stands, the lighting, all the furniture), set into Louis Skelton's building of floor-to-ceiling windows and open-beamed ceilings over Calabasas Creek. The loft coffee space even carries a custom cantilevering rolling ladder, which is a lot of engineering for a mezzanine.
The vibe
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People
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