Welcome!

This website was made by 4 coffee loving students from the University of Missouri St. Louis to serve as a coffee lover’s guide to St Louis. We love our city’s coffee and we hope you do too!

Until the 1920s, Saint Louis was the biggest coffee-roasting city worldwide, boasting a little over 70 coffee roasting facilities. We have compiled a list of a couple of the most beloved coffee roasters of Saint Louis, information about them and their roasting process, as well as the history of their coffee beans. These coffee roasters have more than just an influence on the public at their own businesses, they also provide too many other local coffee shops in the Saint Louis area. Here we have listed a few local coffee shops, many of which purchase their coffee from the local roasters. We have also included a bit of information about each coffee shop and what they in turn offer to the coffee loving world. Since this site is dedicated to the coffee lover, we will also include information about the roasting process and a little bit of history on the coffee origins.

This site will serve as your guide to all things coffee in Saint Louis. To navigate through the site, look to the top right corner of the page. There you will see the names of our 5 different webpages including: “Home”(the page you are on right now), “Intro to Coffee”, “Coffee Shop History”, “Local Roasters”, and “Local Coffee Shops.” To visit any of these pages just click on the name of the page you would like to see.

Our “Intro to Coffee” page will give you a basic knowledge of coffee; it will tell you about how and where coffee is grown, different types of coffee beans, how it is roasted, and the effects of coffee.

The “Coffee Shop History” page will inform you of the interesting history of coffee shops throughout the years. It will give you a look into the minds of past coffee lovers and show how different events shaped coffee shops into what they are today.

On our “Local Roasters” page, we list 4 different Saint Louis coffee roasters that we consider to be the best in the area. We will inform you of their different roasting techniques and other interesting features that make them unique. We will also tell you how and where you can buy their coffee.
And finally, our “Local Coffee Shops” page will list our favorite local coffee shops. We will give you a brief summary of what makes them so special and provide you with links to their website, directions, and other helpful places.

To ensure that you have the best Saint Louis coffee experience; we have thoroughly studied up on Saint Louis coffee. We have read countless articles, reviews, and visited several coffee locations to decide which roasters and coffee shops to include in our site.

We hope this site is helpful. Thanks for visiting! If you have and questions, comments or concerns, you can e-mail us at stl.coffee@yahoo.com

 

Have a nice day!

 
~Sarah Wilson, Jessepreet Babbra, Justin Dowdy, and Akash Patel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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