Lake Tahoe coffee roasters share how passion, science and remarkable beans are the recipe for fabulous flavor
It’s a gorgeous day in March, and Ralph Backstrom, co-owner of Pacific Crest Coffee in Truckee, has the roll-up door next to his coffee roaster wide open.
Fresh Sierra air mixes with the sweet smell of freshly roasted coffee in perfect harmony. It’s an exquisite atmosphere any coffee connoisseur might choose to live in for eternity.
Backstrom is jazzed, not for the delightful aroma he’s created, but for nailing the roast of a special batch of beans from a Guatemalan farm he visited the previous spring…