Switchback Coffee

Switchback Coffee Long weekend dialed in! Our Switchback Cafe is ready for you! Open all August Long Weekend 10-4 (Monday too!). Regular hours for the rest of summer are 10-4 Friday, Saturday & Sunday. Come check out where the magic begins in our roastery, grab a Shaken Espresso! We’ve got a small selection of Mosi Florentine Bakery Cafe & Gelateria pastries and Cold Comfort Ice Cream ice cream sandwiches, and freezies too! Grab a slice from Bicycle Pizza + Picnic and cool off with Junction Orchard & Cidery cider and soak it in ☀️

✨What supporting local looks like✨
From opposite shores of Prospect Lake, we support Power To Be and the support us right back! Through fundraising initiatives, gift in-kind & program-based coffee services provided for Power To Be & they support us right back by using local coffee for their volunteers and staff in their facility here on the edge of Prospect Lake. Give them a follow and show your support at www.powertobe.ca/donate

Why do we love these travel mugs?! They were designed with adventure in mind. Intentionally slim enough to fit anywhere (backpack, camping chair, car cup holder), leak-proof when it counts, and the mix of stainless steel outside + ceramic inside means hot things stay hot and cold things stay cold for hours (and don’t have that plasticky or metallic taste!). Our signature topographical map is textured, giving them a little bit of extra grip (and class!). Grab one today and get outside!

Tomorrow is another Orchard Market Junction Orchard & Cidery and we’re open all day for it! Come support local

We’ve had LOTS of wholesale orders to our lovely retail partners this week!! Find fresh beans & stock up for your weekend at:
Dan's Farm and Country Market
SALT | Sustainable Fashion
Salt Spring Chocolate
Red Barn Market
One Yoga Victoria
Junction Orchard & Cidery
Mosi Florentine Bakery Cafe & Gelateria
Spruce | Brentwood Bay
Brentwood Cycle
Hullabaloo Coffee & Ice Cream

Amazing bouquets by Badge available this weekend at our little cafe
Badge's Heartscent Blooms Junction Orchard & Cidery

Fresh from beautiful farm just down the road, we’ve got a few bouquets available at Junction. Swing by and get them before they’re gone!

Excited to share that our little cafe, as part of our roasting room, is officially open at Junction Cidery + Orchard. Thank you .ca .clothing for all your support, encouragement, and love along the way! Currently only open weekends, but looking to expand as interest grows!
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For the bold, there’s Boomerang Double Black. Never miss first chair.

Whenever we open a fresh bag of green beans, it’s nice to take a moment and a deep breath to get a sense of the coffee and possible flavour notes. Often you can pull out nuisances, even in the green beans. Our green coffee arrives in either 132lbs or 150lbs jute sacs within which is an inner, sealed bag. This protects the beans from the elements, and preserves freshness and flavour. Sometimes, when we open up the inner bag (for the first time since it’s left the country it was harvested in) remarkable, distinct aromas are immediately evident. In the case of Colombia Tolima, this is exactly what happened upon the first open; the air around us filled with the scent of dried apricot.
Musing with this aromatic-inspiration we decided to do something special with these beans. Colombian coffee beans are often wildly versatile; they can have subtle flavour notes such as citrusy-floral and stone fruit, well-balanced nuances of milk chocolate and peanuts, and withstand high-roasting temperatures bringing about dark chocolate almonds, and even caramel-smokiness. To showcase these remarkable green beans and how ‘roast’ alone can impact flavour, we’ve roasted them three different ways:
•A mild roast; we took the additional step to age the roasted beans with dried apricots for 14 days in order to further showcase this distinct flavour
•A medium roast has notes of milk chocolate covered peanuts
• A dark roast with slight smoke aroma, and tastes of dark chocolate and hazelnut.
📣This special *very limited* release of TOLIMA - A ROAST FLIGHT TRIO is available Dec 3rd and is a perfect gift for any coffee connoisseur on your list. Comment/DM if you’d like us to hold one for you.
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