Blue Bottle, Bushwick

A study in quality control at the Bay Area coffee roaster's new Brooklyn facility

With 35 locations across California, New York and Tokyo, and with nine more hitting the East Coast this year, some coffee fanatics might wonder if Oakland, CA-based Blue Bottle isn’t becoming Starbucks for the hipster generation. As we learned on a recent visit to their new cafe and roasting facility in Bushwick, Brooklyn, scaling up doesn’t mean Blue Bottle’s standards have gone mainstream. In fact, …

Timbuk2 + Blue Bottle Coffee: Travel Brew Kit

Craft the perfect cup wherever the road takes you

For true coffee lovers, enjoying a well-crafted cup isn’t just a luxury, it’s a daily necessity. Exploring new places near and far sometimes leads us to enlightening coffee discoveries by way of small-town roasters but, more often than not, it results in stale gas station java and chain store cappuccinos. Luckily, the coffee-obsessed crew at San Francisco-based Blue Bottle Coffee teamed up with their neighbors …