Unpacking Coffee with Kandace and Ray: Supercrown Coffee Roasters

In this week’s episode of Unpacking Coffee, Kandace and Ray chat with Darleen Scherer, who earlier this year opened Supercrown Coffee Roasters in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y.

A former barista competition judge and executive committee member of the Specialty Coffee Association of America’s Roaster’s Guild, Scherer is especially well-known in coffee circles as the co-founder of Gorilla Coffee, an upscale roastery that launched in 2002. She left Gorilla in late 2014, eventually launching Supercrown around a 1,700-square-foot roasting headquarters and retail bar at 8 Wilson Avenue.

Scherer plans an ambitious online subscription program consisting of at least 52 coffees annually, offered in weekly or twice-monthly packages. Single-origin coffees in 8.8-ounce-capacity compostable Biotrē bags will be packed inside recycled cardboard boxes that include photo corners to hold swappable cards, customized for each coffee. Here’s more:

Unpacking Coffee is a weekly show discovering new coffee roasters one episode at a time led by Kandace and Ray of the Portland-based studio Needmore Designs, which specializes in coffee, wine and lifestyle brands.