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Mad Lab roasts the coffee in Downtown Los Angeles.
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Curator’s note
Nobody in coffee wanted to teach anybody when Andrew Sinclair started, so he taught himself to roast on a sample roaster he rigged from a toaster oven and a rotisserie. A friend's crack about the test tubes and beakers around it ("It's like a mad lab!") named the company he and his wife, Sarah, started in 2015.
The Coffee
Mad Lab's house values hold the bar to measuring every critical input and to bringing the conversation back to what is in the cup and why it tastes that way. The Culver bar pours espresso, a Cup O' Coffee and iced coffee, and the decaf is a Honduras through the Mountain Water Process.
- Tropical Co-ferment
Colombia, San Adolfo, Acevedo, Huila · 1750 m.a.s.L.
- Varietals
- Purple Caturra
- Process
- Natural Anaerobic Co-ferment
- Producer
- Finca Monteblanco, Rodrigo Sanchez
Daiquiri · Red Kool-Aid · Passionfruit
- Dolly BlendPour-over
Ethiopia, Iwariti · 2,000 meters
- Varietals
- 74112
- Process
- Natural (dual-profiled)
Sweet Honey · Apple Pie · Blenheim Apricot · Dark Fruit
- Razzle-Dazzle Blend
1700 - 2000 Meters
- Varietals
- Castillo, Caturra
- Process
- Washed + Wine Yeast Co-Ferment
Peach Crisp · Maple Cream · Fragrant Plum Rose · Blissful
- Doc Brown Blend
Ethiopia, Guji + Yirgacheffe · 2,000–2,150 meters
- Varietals
- 74112
- Process
- Natural / Washed
Chocolate · Marshmallow Fluff · Fig Jam
- Coconut Lemonade Co-ferment
Colombia, San Adolfo, Acevedo, Huila · 1750 m.a.s.L.
- Varietals
- Purple Caturra
- Process
- Natural Anaerobic Co-ferment
- Producer
- Finca Monteblanco, Rodrigo Sanchez
Coconut · Lemon Rind · Meringue
- Honduras Mountain Water Processed DecafPour-over
Honduras
- Process
- Mountain Water Process
- Dark Brown Blend
Ethiopia, Guji + Yirgacheffe · 2,000–2,150 meters
- Roast
- Dark
- Varietals
- 74112
- Process
- Natural / Washed
Dark Chocolate · Caramel Drizzle · S'mores
The Vibe
Mad Lab's Culver Boulevard shop is painted black down to the pavement, with MADLAB COFFEE ROASTERS in white neon over a grid of black-framed windows and ivy climbing one wall. Inside, the counter and the retail shelving behind it are terracotta, and out front green wire chairs gather around small round tables on the sidewalk.
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