March 13, 2018

The Women’s Building of San Francisco is the oldest (since 1979!) women-owned and -operated community center in the country. Each year they welcome over 25,000 women and their families, connecting them with social services, community involvement opportunities, the arts, wellness, and educational events.

It also has a rad mural that covers two sides of the building and reaches five stories high. You’ve biked by it; you know what we’re talking about.

This Thursday, March 8^th, Four Barrel Coffee pitched in. We donated all proceeds from our batch brew sales, all day, to The Women’s Building. You can... read more...

This incredible winter-long collaboration with Creative Growth includes four elements:

1) Creative Growth artists exhibit their work, for sale at The Mill now through January 16, 2018.

2) Creative Growth-designed art labels appear on the new Four Barrel Coffee packaging, including seasonal releases from the following:

Colombia el Tablon (Aurie Ramirez),

Colombia Lucas Melo (Donald Mitchell),

Honduras Yojoa (Ying Gee Zhou),

Kenya Ruiruiru (Dan Miller),

Decaf Nicaragua Dipilto (Paul Fields).

All available now through seasonal availability. 

3) Four Barrel on Valencia St. hosts read more...

Scott Ungermann is not going to write an essay.

The beer nerds at Anchor Steam spent a long time developing their new coffee porter featuring Four Barrel’s cold coffee. We spent about twenty minutes asking their brewmaster, Scott Ungermann, questions about it while drinking one out of the bottle.

Four Barrel Coffee featured artist Julianna Bright doesn't want to be a ***k

We really wanted to talk to Julianna Bright about her art for the fancy new coffee bags, so we called her. We used a telephone. Here’s what she said:

“The seed for a lot of that style came from reencountering children’s illustrated books. I got a sense memory of being pre-literate. I remembered being a child, looking at pictures, and trying to figure out what they were about.”

That’s sort of why we called. Because we don’t know what those artworks are... read more...

Neither can we. Here’s the deal: The incredible new ice-cold kegs of not-cold-brew coffee that we’ve been trying to perfect for, oh, maybe forever (but who’s counting) are finally ready.

We serve it at The Mill, as well as Four Barrel in the Mission District, and SF's Portola neighborhood. Some of our friends around the Bay Area are also bringing in our kegs this week. Soon we'll offer kegs up north in Portland and down south in LA.  

When we say #notcoldbrew, what we mean is that we extract this coffee hot, at a temperature that makes scientific good sense. Then we immediately cool it way down without the intrusion of oxygen and other funky stuff. We're using only sweet and seasonal fully washed high-elevation Arabica coffees from East Africa for all of our bright, crisp, and clean offerings.

When we say offerings, what we mean is that we’re offering three different kinds of kegs:

LIMELIGHT: A light-roasted, bright & floral, fresh & fruity offering (currently Kenya Sawa Sawa)
HOUDINI: A body-driven, sweet & syrupy result of dark arts, science, & magic (currently Ethiopia Qorema)
NITRO: All that sweetness, infused with the creamy lusciousness of nitrogen.

When we say Nitro, we say it with a deep and whispering voice, pretending that we’re bad guys in Fast & Furious Part Twelve, and “Nitro” is the name of our custom motorcycle-tank-rocket.

And if you know someone who would like a couple kegs delivered to their cafe, restaurant, bar, or office, please have them zap us an email right now to this very real email address that we honestly check every day:
notcoldbrew@fourbarrelcoffee.com

Your Secret Keepers,
xo4B