Coffee Here

There are more coffee joints than breweries in the Coachella Valley and Palm Springs Life has reviewed some of its local purveyors in The Joy of Coffee. 

I was surprised when I read that the beans used at Ernest Coffee were from a roaster in Oregon. Cafe La Jefe's beans come from Colorado.  But most of our local cafes get their beans from local roasters.

I created the following list using the information from the Palm Springs Life article to keep track of where these places are. You know, just in case I'm out and about and a need a coffee. (I have personally sampled the places noted in red.)

Local Coffee Joint	Location	Roaster		Try
Cafe La Jefe	Palm Springs	Sisters Coffee Company	CO	café de olla
Sixth Street Coffee	Coachella	Arcade Coffee Roasters	CA	horchata latte
Bluebird Day	Palm Springs	Joshua Tree Coffee Company	CA	chai affogato, cold brew
Ernest Coffee	Palm Springs	Stumptown	OR	pistachio-rose latte, espresso
Everbloom Coffee	Indio			butterscotch iced latte
Koffi	Palm Springs, Rancho Mirage	house roasted	CA
location TBD	Palm Desert	818 Coffee	CA

There are other notable coffee places about town that were not included in the Palm Springs Life article:

• Cartel Roasting Co has multiple locations in AZ and one in Palm Springs.
• Coachella Valley Coffee in Palm Springs supplies the coffee for PSP Coffee House at the Palm Spring Airport and where I personally get my own supply of coffee. 
• Idyllwild Coffee Roasters is a short drive away in Idyllwild.
• IW Coffee in Indian Wells also brews coffee from Joshua Tree Coffee.

According to the Desert Sun, we will soon have a new coffee roaster (and tap house!) in downtown Coachella at Coachella General. 

Coffee and beer at the same location? We could not be more pleased.

Take note the next time you're vacationing in the desert: There's plenty of local coffee houses to try. And, while the local beers here are very good, there aren't nearly enough breweries. 

Cheers!

Today

 ... is National Beer Day.

The Cullen–Harrison Act, named for its sponsors, Senator Pat Harrison and Representative Thomas H. Cullen, enacted by the United States Congress on March 21, 1933, and signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt the following day, legalized the sale in the United States of beer with an alcohol content of 3.2% (by weight) and wine of similarly low alcohol content, thought to be too low to be intoxicating, effective April 7, 1933. Upon signing the legislation, Roosevelt made his famous remark, "I think this would be a good time for a beer."

          Wikipedia

Too bad it's not Friday. 

Oh, well. Thursday's close enough for me.