Northern Lights Espresso
Tasting notes: black cherrycocoatoffee
Our house espresso since the first drum. Pulls sweet, forgives a sloppy tamp, still tastes like something through oat milk.
Roast Medium, 3 of 5
$19 / 340G
Roastery & two cafés — Minneapolis / St Paul
Roasted 300 feet from where you’re standing.
Small-batch coffee from the North Loop. Roasted Tuesdays and Fridays, on our bars all week, in your kitchen by Saturday.
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LOOP COFFEE ROASTERS · MPLS Northern Lights
Espresso black cherry · cocoa · toffee NLSMALL BATCH
LOOP COFFEE ROASTERS · MPLS Northern Lights
Espresso black cherry · cocoa · toffee NLSMALL BATCH
Brew card
RATIO1:16
WATER94 °C
DOSE28 g in
BLOOM45 s
Grind coarser than you think. Then a little coarser. Roasted at 812 N Washington Ave.
01 Roasts
Four coffees. We finish every lot before we buy the next.
Whole bean, 340 g, roast date printed on the tag. Ground to your brewer at the counter, free, if you ask.
Mississippi Mud
Tasting notes: molassessmokedark chocolate
For people who take it black and mean it. Old-fashioned dark roast, no apologies, excellent out of a dented percolator.
Roast Dark, 5 of 5
$17 / 340G
Huila, Colombia
Tasting notes: panelaorangealmond blossom
Washed, one farm, 1,750 metres. Tastes like orange peel and brown sugar. We get about thirty bags a year and then it’s gone.
Roast Light, 2 of 5
$21 / 340G
First Ave Decaf
Tasting notes: honeyalmondbaking spice
Sugarcane EA process, so it still tastes like coffee. Good enough that we’ve served it to people who never noticed.
Roast Medium, 3 of 5
$18 / 340G
02 Process
Green, roast, rest, brew.
Four steps, one room, eleven days from the dock to your kitchen. You can watch most of it from a stool at the counter on Washington Ave.
Green
We cup a sample before we buy, then take the whole lot if it’s good. Twelve bags at a time, not two hundred.
Roast
Tuesdays and Fridays on a 12-kilo drum, by a person who still watches every single batch.
Rest
The hardest part is waiting 48 hours for the gas to settle. We wait.
Brew
Bags go out Friday afternoon. Yours sits on a shelf for two days, not in a warehouse for two months.
03 Cafés
Two rooms, both worth the walk.
Pickup orders are ready in about ten minutes. Every bag on this page is on the shelf at both bars.
North Loop Roastery
Roasting on site
812 N Washington Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 555-0184
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 555-0184
| Mon – Fri | 6:30a – 5p |
|---|---|
| Saturday | 7a – 5p |
| Sunday | 7a – 3p |
| Roast days | Tue + Fri, from 7a |
You can watch the drum from the counter. It’s loud on Tuesdays and we’re sorry, sort of.
Raymond Ave Café
Saint Paul
1149 Raymond Ave
Saint Paul, MN 55108
(651) 555-0177
Saint Paul, MN 55108
(651) 555-0177
| Mon – Fri | 7a – 6p |
|---|---|
| Saturday | 7:30a – 6p |
| Sunday | 8a – 4p |
| Pickup until | 30 min before close |
The Raymond Ave shop has the good corner light.
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04 Subscription
Never run out again.
Pick a rhythm. We roast Tuesday or Friday, pack it the same afternoon, and it lands before you scrape the bottom of the last bag.
$14.45 $17 per 340 g bag, delivered free in Minnesota
Where most people land. $14.45 a bag, every other Friday, free shipping anywhere in Minnesota.
Skip a week, swap the roast or stop entirely from any email we send. No account to make, nothing to phone about.
You’re on the list.
First bag goes on the Friday truck. We’ll send the roast date and the grind we’d use — change either one by replying.
05 Wholesale
If you pour it, we’ll show up.
We wholesale to about a dozen cafés, two co-ops and one very good bakery. That comes with green-to-cup pricing, a dial-in session on your bar, and a standing Tuesday delivery you never have to chase.
- Wholesale line
- (612) 555-0184
- Minimum
- 5 lb a week
- Delivery
- Tuesdays, metro-wide
Got it — thank you.
Someone from the roastery will write back within a day with pricing and a sample box. If it’s urgent, the wholesale line rings the bar.
Rather taste it first?
Tell us what you pour now and we’ll send four 100 g samples and a price sheet, free, on the next Tuesday run.