I love autumn

Autumn.  It just comes when you need it doesn't it?! I'm so happy that the evenings have turned the corner in terms of heat. My wife, Jessica, brought out the quilt to keep us warm. 

I love the pumpkin lattes and pumpkin white mochas that are selling quickly. Chai teas are picking up steam. Autumn just makes me feel like a warm cafe latte. 

Last weekend jessi and I went out to the county (a magical place east of Pueblo) to purchase our pumpkins and corn. We decorated the front porch with the drying stalks. I love the change of seasons. My precocious son, Henry, just loves the line up of pumpkins. He believes them all to be his personal toys!  I don't blame him. They are too fun!

In any case I welcome everyone to share a cup of coffee with me on these cool mornings. Stop in to the cafe! Or order online and enjoy. Come visit Pueblo. It really does Autumn well. 

I love vinyl

Good evening friendly SRC lovers,

I've been working so hard on the coffee business for the past several years that I think I've neglected to share some other loves of mine. I love vinyl records. It's been a complete dream of mine since high school to collect and own all the Smashing Pumpkins on vinyl along side all of the Beatles vinyl. I always loved music and have spent thousands of hours searching and collecting my favorite tunes. 

Over the years I loved Sam Goody, CD Centre, Virgin Records, Tower Records, Ranch Records and more recently Beat Pharm. 

 What I've noticed is that my favorite shops have closed and moved online. It makes me wish for more of the tangible 1990s and 80s. Music was physical. It spun on a record player or in a CD player.  I enjoy the hunt. Flipping through bins. Ever wondering what will turn up next. 

Perhaps out of a market demand, or my own absolute love for sharing what I like...I've placed my first order of brand new vinyl records for my little shop at 3rd and Main. Solar Roast Coffee will soon have a small selection of new and used vinyls. I'm working with my best friend Dave Ray of Beat Pharm fame to procure the finest classic vinyls to augment the new records. 

I hope people enjoy flipping through the records nearly as much as I have enjoyed looking over lists of available albums. 

Coming in mid October. 

What's your favorite record? What do you want on vinyl?

Share the beans

It's not easy growing a business. It's a laborious and exciting process. Monday comes around and we check voicemail and the sales@solarroast.com email to see what came in. And it never ceases to amaze me to see the unread emails. Orders coming in from all over the country. People who love the beans and love what we make coast to coast. It is quite humbling to realize that people really get what we do. 

How do we grow? I have found that our number one goal is to simply share Solar Roast Coffee with others. I takes 100s of phone calls and emails to reach the coffee buyers, but eventually persistence wins over. Just this week a new store gave us a shot in Indiana. It took 26 connections to get that shot!

While in the same week another customer added us after 3 connections. 

It's thrilling. 

I'm going to make 100 phone calls this week and see who I meet! 

It really is just about sharing our love for coffee with others. 

When you make the worlds best coffee and only solar powered coffee, it's easy to share!

New office digs

I'm sitting in my new office that I share with my lovely wife Jessica!! It is so awesome to finally be out of the basement. No longer will I have to suffer through leaky water lines dripping onto and shorting out the phone lines! I have a few stories to tell about phone lines. But I don't want to bore you with my anecdotal realizations about telecommunications and water. 

In any case. Things are moving up! Our product sharing and support team has been most excellent. SRC can now be found in 42 states, including euphoria! 

Road Food

Make no mistake about it. I like burgers. Love them actually. And, every now and then I find one that hits me perfectly. Timing, bread, all of it. At Three Rivers Brewery in Farmington, NM I found a little bit of perfection. Guess which one Inchose?

Mike Loves Del Norte!

Pagosa Springs is so very cool!

Mike always has fun seeing "his" beans in packages in various places. I have fun watching Mike have fun.

Paradise Coffee - La Veta

A wonderful start to our trip! Thank You Gregg & Sharon!

Getting Ready

There is a lot of prep worked involved in heading out to these demo trips. We even have checklists:

Building a coffee empire ain't easy. But we work together. And with love,luck, and hard work we will be just fine.

Discussing the trip to Farmington & Durango!