Bushwick's Superlost Coffee Makes Facebook Debut

BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN — The only thing not-Bushwick about a new coffee that hit the interwebs this week is the bean.

Superlost Coffee — a single-origin coffee roaster based in Bushwick that uses work from local artists to sell their caffeinated goods — began selling their first batch of coffee on Monday.

The roasting of the coffee, the making of the art and the printing of the bags all happen in Bushwick, and for each $20 half-pound bag sold, 50 cents goes to the farmer and 50 cents goes to the artist whose work appears on the front, according to co-owners David Roa and Craig Deahl.

The beans hail from a farm in Caicedonia, a region in Colombia known for its high altitude coffee, and Roa and Deahl describe the coffee they produce as chocolatey with notes of raspberry and citrus.

The first batch is called Solo Sábado — which means “only Saturday” in Spanish — because for 150 years the coffee bean farmers in Caicedonia, Colombia come together to roast their beans, but only on Saturday.

The bag itself was designed by comic book artist Michael Zolla and appears to be a shrine resting on a split coffee bean with one very excited little person exclaiming “!”

That's right. First edition bags are officially on sale!!!! Link in bio! Artist: Michael Zolla
A post shared by Superlost (@superlostcoffee) on Aug 24, 2017 at 4:10pm PDT

More information about Superlost Coffee is available on Facebook, where the coffee is being sold, or on the Superlost website.

Header photo courtesy of Pixabay