The Fabulous Caffe Marco

We had a wonderful day today learning more about the coffee roasting business. We took a trip to Paris. No, not France, but Kentucky (if you ever have the chance to go you should, it is a beautiful drive out Route 460 from I-75S, get off at Georgetown and follow the signs to 460. Past lots of horse farms, and then to Paris which has a wonderful, quaint Main Street). If you read farther back this month, Napoleon Ridge is looking to expand our home coffee roasting to commercial coffee roasting on the farm eventually, but probably in small storefront to start with.

Thank you to owner Mark Newberry, who performs all the functions within his company, coffee roaster, bean buyer, packing line and marketing...the whole bean, so to say. His store is just as you turn left off of Route 460 onto Main Steet. It is retail only, not a cafe for sitting and sipping, though you can buy a cup of coffee to drink while chatting with Mark and waiting for your coffee to be packaged if you are buying, or take a cup to go.

I spent three enjoyable hours listening, asking, and best of all, watching him roast beans. He has a beautiful Primo coffee roaster right there in the front room. He took the time to show me how the machine works, answer all my questions, show me his bean room - he was just so generous with his time. So make sure if you are ever in the Lexington/Frankfort/Paris area to either visit him or buy some of his wonderful coffee ( I took home several bags). Visit his website for more information and locations at : http://www.caffemarco.com/

I have developed and designed our coffee roaster logo in preparation...

Although now that I know how much the initial investment is going to be, I am going to have to get creative...coffee shares, anyone?