Cold brew by the bottle is now available at dwelltime! Over the last three months we have been experimenting with bottling cold brew, and we’re proud to release a take-home version of Cambridge Cold Brew – our variation on traditional cold brewing techniques. Currently we’re offering Los Lobos from Costa Rica (sweet citrus, cocoa, nicely balanced, [...]
Continue Reading →This week we’ll be holding a public coffee cupping focused on contrasting the range of flavors that are possible based on origin, processing and transport — from earthy, raisin-y natural processed coffees, nutty Brazilian coffees and sweet citric Costa Ricans. Join us at the cupping table this Thursday, July 26 at 3PM.
Continue Reading →This weekend we’ll have a special barside coffee menu. We’ll be offering a barside syphon menu. Syphons (also known as vacuum pots) are full-immersion brewers that use cloth filtration, and they produce our favorite filter coffees — the results accentuate and amplify the origin flavors we appreciate, and produce an unparalleled aroma and mouthfeel. [...]
Continue Reading →The Costa Rican coffees have arrived on bar, among the first of our direct-trade coffees to arrive for the summer season. These coffees run the gammut from super-sweet citrus to cocoa, smooth juicy mouthfeels to heavy honey. We’ll be holding a cupping this Thursday 3 PM at the shop to give you a chance to [...]
Continue Reading →After a few days of waiting to receive table legs, we started building the new tables for the cafe this week. We like big tables; they’re flexible for groups of different sizes, and fosters egalitarianism and a sense of community. Our newest addition will be right in the window spot, currently occupied by a long, [...]
Continue Reading →At any given time we have a number of background projects in the works. We’ve been working to be able to bottle and sell larger quantities of cold brew for at-home consumption. Near the end of the day yesterday we unexpectedly got our delivery of bottles a few days early — the entire eight-foot tall, 1500 [...]
Continue Reading →Our afternoon pastry menu rotates every few weeks; our pastry chef bakes small runs of select items that are released in the afternoon. We’ll periodically be posting these selections online. The menu for the beginning of July is focused on exploring foods that cross the ‘sweet-savory’ boundary. Your best chance of finding these items is [...]
Continue Reading →Our hearing before the Board of Zoning Appeal for expanded seating happened last Thursday . The board was impressed by the more than 2200 signatures we presented, as well as numerous letters supporting our petition. The evidence that we provided showed conclusively that more than 90% of our supporters walk or bike to dwelltime and [...]
Continue Reading →We’d like to ask your help on an important matter. dwelltime’s reception in the neighborhood since opening our doors last April has been terrific. We could not be happier. Our biggest obstacle to achieving our full vision has been the lack of sufficient seating space. dwelltime’s lack of off-street parking limits our current seating capacity to [...]
Continue Reading →This Thursday, we’ll be offering a tasting flight of barismo’s Ethiopian Yirgacheffe. This is a lot from a speciality coffee program under the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange. Ethiopia is a challenging country to work in as a company that sources coffee, but we found this lot to be promising and it has been our most popular [...]
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