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Mugshot Espresso Blend
Alibi blends natural, honey and washed coffees.
Cream Top Latte
Honeycomb Toffee Latte
The latte comes with toffee shards in the glass.
Alibi x Letterpress Mocha Chocolate Bar
A collaboration with Letterpress Chocolate: cacao and coffee are small batch roasted separately, then the coffee is brewed with the cacao butter.
Curator’s note
Will Hyndman, from Seattle, and Derek Jaeschke, from the Milwaukee and Chicago side, formed Alibi in 2016 around a new (old) roaster refurbished in Derek's garage. Will likes a proper cappuccino and Derek takes his coffee black.
The Coffee
The board's trademarks are the cream top lattes, plain and salted caramel, with a honeycomb toffee latte and a horchata cold brew alongside the drip, matcha, chai and a pour-over list. Nighthawk is the decaf, Spirograph the Swiss Water half-caff, and the R+D bag is a mystery coffee the roaster is working on.
- Mugshot Espresso Blend
- Process
- Natural, honey and washed
chocolate · nutty
- Brasil Capim Branco
Brazil, High Cerrado · 1,100 m
- Varietals
- Red Catuai, Yellow Catuai, Yellow Icatu
- Process
- Natural, Honey
caramel · chocolate · strawberry
- Colombia Gaitania
Colombia, Gaitania, Tolima · 1,600–2,000 m
- Varietals
- Caturra
- Process
- Natural, African raised bed style drying
toffee · toast · grapefruit
- Ethiopia Yirgacheffe
Ethiopia, Yirgacheffe · 900–1,500 m
- Roast
- Light
- Varietals
- Bourbon, Arabica
- Process
- Washed
sweet grass · almond · melon
- Frank Sumatra
Indonesia
cedar · spice
- Guatemala Huehuetanengo
Guatemala, Huehuetenango · 1,600–1,700 m
- Varietals
- Typica, Catuai
- Process
- Washed
chocolate cream · citrus
- Jamoke Specialty Dark
- Roast
- Dark
roasty · chocolatey · nut forward
- Nighthawk Decaf
gingersnap · malt · fudge
- Spirograph Half Caff
- Process
- Swiss Water Process
honeysuckle · brittle · citrus
The Vibe
The first Alibi was the 1922 room on Venice Boulevard, and the room that replaced it has a red-brick front with the script name on a white panel over black-framed glass doors and 1798 in steel numerals, with a white bistro table out on the sidewalk. Inside, a white counter on dark cabinets runs under amber glass ceiling lights, with a La Marzocco on the bar, kraft bags of the roast on wood shelves, a white-tiled back wall and a pass-through window to the back room.
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