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Grounded in Stowe, PK Coffee opens café

PK Coffee is trading in its ephemeral beginnings for an actual café, giving the pocket of activity known as Mountain Road Village a place for folks to congregate, converse and caffeinate.

Katrina Veerman and Matt Carrell, busy the past year running PK Coffee as a pop-up service at Commodities Market and other places, open the doors on their new permanent place this weekend.

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Christohop

You have a great opportunity as a local coffee shop to support local products. This includes the support of your local coffee roasters. There are many competent coffee roasters with well established names around the country from coast to coast such as Stumptown, Intelligentsia, Counter Culture and Verve to name a few. While this may be easy from a marketing standpoint it does nothing for the talented folks in your neck of the woods. It should feel good to introduce your customers to a true local artisan and not to ride on brand name recognition..... One truly good way to do this would be to create a guest roaster program that highlights your favorite coffees from local roasters and not to single out brand recognition due to the fear of success. Look at the local bars in Stowe that carry local products and national brands, this is the education of the public through curation of an ever changing and improving product. Coffee deserves this opportunity and Stowe is ripe for this model. You have this opportunity to create a third wave model in Stowe that focuses on the quality of the coffee that is being produced by talented farmers worldwide and is chosen and roasted by local artisans. Roasting is an important art form but the processing and quality of coffee hinges upon support of these farmers coupled with continued local support. Find the best local coffees, insist upon organic every chance you get and know where your supply comes from. This kind of passion will not only help you to serve better coffee at your cafe but to also have a sustainable model that your customers will be proud to support.

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