Great Espresso is All Smiles with New Roasting Operation in LADaily Espresso Information through Roast Mag

Great Espresso Roasters House owners Chris Owens, Doug Meils and Elliott Lau. Picture through Marissa Feldman, courtesy of Great Espresso Roasters.

A brand new logo referred to as Great Espresso Roasters is cheering up espresso drinkers during Los Angeles and farther afield via quality-focused sourcing and roasting.

The concept that comes from a trio of seasoned LA-based espresso pros — Chris Owens, Doug Meils and Elliott Lau — every of whom has ties to the influential former espresso logo Good-looking Espresso Roasters.

The brand new roasting corporate is a spouse to the downtown Los Angeles espresso store, Great Espresso, which Lau joined in 2017 below the possession of founder Tyler Wells (every other Good-looking alum). Lau took possession of the store in 2020.

Great in the past carried coffees from a large number of roasters, together with some that have been roasted through Owens and Meils in several capacities, whilst managing to live to tell the tale the COVID-19 pandemic, “in spite of being in the midst of two large place of business structures,” in step with Lau. The store now serves because the retail face of the brand new Great roasting logo.

Elliott Lau at Great. Picture through Elliott-Augusto Piccio, courtesy of Great Espresso Roasters. 

Mentioned Lau, “I grew up as a barista in single-roaster stores, and sought after to provide that very same enjoy to my visitors and group of workers.”

Meils, who now serves because the Great head roaster, brings greater than two decades of espresso enjoy to the mission, together with stints at Intelligentsia Espresso, Good-looking and Tectonic Espresso.

“I’m at all times having a look to get traces that ship the cleanest and sweetest cup,” mentioned Meils, who oversees a 15-kilo Mill Town Roasters gadget in a facility in Inglewood. “I believe this aligns, kind of, with what I’ve performed previously at Good-looking and different roasters, simplest I’m much better at it now.”

Owens takes the lead on inexperienced espresso shopping for Great, using enjoy accumulated at espresso corporations similar to Gimme! Espresso, Counter Tradition Espresso, Ritual Espresso Roasters and Intelligentsia, the latter of which he left to co-create Good-looking greater than a decade in the past.

“Even if I’ve relationships with a number of nice importers right here within the U.S., I actually need to spotlight a few the exporters I paintings with: Benjamin Paz from Honduras and Nadine Rasch from Guatemala,” Owens informed DCN. “I’ve been pals with them for a few years and they have got been instrumental in serving to to connect to the manufacturers with whom we’re running.”

For his phase, Meils tries to focus on essentially the most fascinating traits of every of the coffees, together with reflections of post-harvest processing strategies.

New baggage coming from Great Espresso Roasters.

“As tacky as this sounds, I additionally concentrate to the espresso greater than previously,” mentioned Meils. “I need to get the most productive out of the espresso. Previously I’d pressure my taste of roasting at the bean, however that doesn’t at all times determine.”

With e-commerce and the wholesale industry now off the bottom, Great Espresso Roasters will quickly be rolling out a line of merch led through Meils. In the meantime, Lau is these days pursuing partnerships with apparatus suppliers for added products and services for wholesale shoppers.

In a contemporary press liberate pronouncing the Great Espresso release, Owens succinctly said, “At Great Espresso Roasters, we will be able to purchase tasty espresso, pay our manufacturer companions slightly, price our consumers a cheap value and be great to other folks.”

Great Espresso DTLA is positioned at 515 Flower St, Suite 1960, in Los Angeles. Inform DCN’s editors about your new espresso store or roastery right here.