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READER'S PICK: Coffee, Etc. has more than 200 flavors
and blends, all roasted in small-batch roasters. For non-experts,
they've even rated the strength of the beans from mild to "full
mega wow!" From Jamaican Blue Mountain to the trendiest truffle-flavored
novelty, they have the roasts that make our readers rise and shine.
READERS' POLL RUNNER-UP: Cuppuccinos Coffee House, 3400 E. Speedway
A REAL SCREAM: Ron Rose, one of the few people in the Old Pueblo to earn his keep by roasting coffee beans for the local market, approaches coffee as a collector might appraise a Picasso. Endlessly picky about the green coffee beans he imports from around the world, Rose roasts 400 to 600 pounds a week, and every ounce of his product makes its way to restaurants and coffeehouses like Cuppuccino's, the Cup Café, and Tubac's Chile Pepper Café. Most of Rose's business comes from commercial accounts; he limits his retail sales to a few hours at Downtown Saturday Night, the Palomino Plaza Farmer's Market, and chance walk-ins at his Wilde Rose storefront in the downtown Hotel Congress building, 8 N. Fifth Ave. There you can buy house blends ranging from moderately priced Kenyan and "monsooned Malabar" varieties to expensive Jamaican Blue Mountain. In case you miss Rose--and, if you're a caffeine head, you owe it to yourself to pay this master a visit--you can buy his wares at the aforementioned venues, as well as the Food Conspiracy on Fourth Avenue.
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