Jacob.

We spent Thursday collecting a ton of great gear that was loaned to us for the temporary shop. I have a Nuovo Simonelli Mythos on espresso grinding duty (along side a super jolly for decaf) and a three group La Marzocco Linea that runs like a champ. We salvaged two Zojirushi water boilers from the fire that will be boiling water for us and we were generously given a Ditting coffee grinder to break up the beans. Couple those with salvaged V60′s, French Press’, and Chemex’s and you have yourself a pretty tasty little slow bar.

All in all the space is great and we are very lucky that we are able to use it. We are opening tomorrow morning at 7am, one week to the day of the fire. We didn’t know that was going to happen. It almost felt like people were pushing us to open. The building was offerend to us first then the grinder, espresso machine and so on. We never had to search for this piece of gear or that it just happened and so fast that it kind of took us on an emmotional ride from open, closed and open again that we could have never done ourselves.

I don’t know if we are going to be busy tomorrow. I don’t know if it will take time for people to find us and decided to have a coffee but I can’t wait to serve people again. I have been served by so many people in this last week that making coffee seems kind of trivial but I need to do it. Every cup I make tomorrow will mean a little more than before the fire. Please come have one.

On another note there is a big event happening in London and you can read about it here.

I don’t fully understand what John Gordon has in store but its going to be a lot of fun! Thank you John, Square Mile, Hasbean, Extract Coffee Roasters, James Gourmet Coffee, Marco, The Kernel, KeepCup, East London Furniture, Puck Studio, Vespertine Press and Coffee Hit for everything you guys are doing!

Last but not least I would like to thank the amazing volunteer staff at Safehouse. These guys have been working non stop to get us back open. They have all driven many hours, cleaned some pretty gross stuff and given of their time so that our community could have coffee again. I am very proud of all of you guys!

Thanks coffee people, Griffinites, firefighters, police, local business people family and friends.