Athens Coffee Holding & Roasting Gets Going in Georgia

"Athens Coffee Holding & Roasting Company opened its first cafe alongside its roastery last month, courtesy of the team behind popular local shop Sips Espresso Café. The cozy new cafe occupies a fully remodeled 1,000-square-foot 1930s house that was part of a residential area for workers at a nearby denim factory. Guests can now sit in jute coffee-sack-upholstered chairs inside the historic home or on the front porch, while the commercial roastery and baking kitchen operate in adjoining rooms."

""The building was ready for the bulldozer," Athens Coffee Holding & Roasting Co-Founder Quintin Robison told Daily Coffee News. The house, one of only three remaining from the original worker housing, had been remodeled after a 1990s fire and used as rental property. Said Robison,"There wasn't much to save architecturally, so we had a fresh slate inside." Meanwhile, the former denim factory down the block has been converted into a mixed-use complex housing a brewery, restaurants, hotel and offices, drawing foot traffic to the area."

"Sweets baked fresh daily are displayed in a pastry case at the Athens Coffee counter, while through a doorway customers can peek into the adjoining room where head roaster Ethan Mullenax runs a copper-clad 12-kilo US Roaster Corp machine. Some of those coffees make their way to Sips Espresso Café, which Robison and his wife and partner, Lindsay Powell, took over in 2014 and converted to a multiroaster cafe."

Athens Coffee Holding & Roasting Company opened a cafe adjacent to its roastery in a remodeled 1,000-square-foot 1930s house that once housed denim factory workers. The space offers indoor seating with jute coffee-sack-upholstered chairs and a front porch, while a commercial roastery and baking kitchen operate in adjoining rooms. The nearby former denim factory has become a mixed-use complex that increases foot traffic. Head roaster Ethan Mullenax leads green coffee sourcing and profile development, using extended development times to enhance body and mouthfeel. Daily pastries are baked on site, and some roasts supply Sips Espresso Café.

Read at Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine