Leaving the corporate coffee world of San Francisco and Los Angeles in the 80’s, after stints at Pasqua and The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. Clive Richardson was drawn to Calistoga by an old colleague Jack Martin to venture out independently and they opened the Calistoga Roastery on July 3rd 1992. Moving to its current location in 2004 the focus remains the . . .
First and only solely Fair Trade, Organic, micro-roastery and retail coffee shop in Calistoga and or the Napa Valley. Yo el Rey Roasting is a sustainable, seasonal, independent, artisan, socially, humanistically, and environmentally conscious, micro-roastery and retail coffee shop. Our beans are roasted to a medium-ish roast profile to lock in . . .
Roasting coffee is based on cooking a complex starch into a pleasing caramelized sugar. Each bean requires a specific roasting profile: the time and temperature required for turning a green coffee bean into a brown roasted coffee bean. Coffee under roasted tastes of grass, and coffee over roasted tastes of burnt rancid carbon. The Napa Valley Coffee Roasting . . .
COMMING THIS SUMMER: An Italian inspired espresso bar, café & gelateria located in the beautiful town of St. Helena, in the heart of the Napa Valley. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff serves the finest Italian coffees, gelato, pastries and of course a wide selection of authentic panini’s. Come and enjoy your morning espresso and cornetto, perhaps . . .
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