Counter Culture Coffee Moving into Ex-Grand Space in Union Square

The Boston Globe reports that Counter Culture Coffee, a company that sells fresh and sustainable coffee to shops and dealers and provides coffee education to the public, is coming to Union Square this summer.

According to the Globe, the coffee company will move into the .

Read the Boston Globe report here.

Counter Culture Coffee describes itself as "[d]edicated to finding and bringing to market the most exciting, authentic, and delicious coffees in the world," according to its website, which continues, "we approach our work with a passion for the ideal of coffee perfection, a dedication to real sustainability, and a commitment to cutting-edge education throughout the coffee chain."

The Union Square site will serve as a regional training center for the company's "Counter Intelligence" coffee education program, "an ever-evolving curricula of courses, seminars, and hands-on training labs designed to impart the knowledge and skills required to craft the most extraordinary coffee experiences possible," its website says.

If you think this will be another place to grab a latte and dive into an afternoon of heavy Facebooking on your MacBook Pro, it seems that's not the case. Rather, the company seems focused on bringing sustainable coffee to the market and educating coffee lovers. It's not a typical coffee shop, in other words.

However, according to its website, "Our weekly public coffee cuppings, held every Friday at 10 a.m. in our regional training centers, represent one of our proudest educational traditions. Fun and always educational, our cuppings provide coffee lovers of all skill levels the opportunity to experience, compare, and discuss a wide variety of coffees and their myriad, fascinating characteristics."

Union Square, are you excited for a cupping?