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Uppers Blend
Guatemalan and Ethiopian coffees blended for the house espresso.
Curator’s note
Mark Bell found the idea in an American expat's coffee shop in Mazatlán, and after twenty years of nonprofit work he sold his Ocean Beach condo to open OB Beans with three friends in May 2017, the four of them doing the demolition and selling at farmers markets first, half of every sale to charity. Ben Nease and Ryan Bardelli grew up together in OB and went to Point Loma High, Taylor Langstaff and Ben were at Point Loma Nazarene together, and Mark met them all through the same nonprofit work.
The Coffee
The espresso is the Uppers blend of Guatemala and Ethiopia, built for the milk drinks with a chocolate base, and the Gaviota house blend of El Salvador and Guatemala is the staple cup, with a Dawn Patrol dark roast, a half-caf and a Swiss Water decaf behind it. The single origins change through the year, and the matcha is Nekohama.
- Gaviota House Blend
El Salvador, Guatemala, Ataco, El Salvador and Jutiapa, Guatemala · 4,000-4500' in Ataco and 3,750-5,000' in Jutiapa
- Roast
- Medium
- Process
- Washed
toffee · honey · classic
- Dawn Patrol
Chiapas, Mexico and Guji, Ethiopia · 3,600-4,800' in Chiapas and 6,300-6,750' in Guji
- Roast
- Medium-dark
- Process
- Washed / Natural
dark chocolate · dried fruit · full bodied
- Uppers Blend
Guatemala, Ethiopia, Jutiapa, Guatemala and Guji, Ethiopia · 3,750-5,000' in Jutiapa and 6,300-6,750' in Guji
- Roast
- Medium-light
- Process
- Washed / Natural
brown sugar · cherry · balanced
- Middles Half-Caf
Multi-Country Origin
- Roast
- Medium
- Process
- Washed
molasses · hazelnut · cherry
- Hawaiian Ka'u Blend
Hawaiʻi, Kaʻū, Hawaiʻi · 600m
- Roast
- Medium-dark
- Process
- Washed Blend
- Producer
- Elepoki Coffee, grown by the Koi family
almond · chocolate · brown sugar
- El Salvador Divisadero Natural
El Salvador, Apaneca · 4500'
- Roast
- Light
- Process
- Natural
- Producer
- Mauricio Salvera (Finca Divisadero)
strawberry · cocoa
- Buena Onda Mexico
Mexico, Mexico · 1800 m
- Roast
- Medium-dark
- Process
- Washed
hazelnut · maple · rich
- Lowers Decaf
Multi-Country Origin
- Roast
- Medium-dark
- Process
- Washed
molasses · hazelnut · rich
The Vibe
OB Beans is lettered across the awning of a storefront on Newport Avenue with one sidewalk table at the glass, and inside a wall carries DOING GOOD FARM TO CUP in large black type over the bar stools. Burlap sacks of green coffee stand in the roastery at the back, and the drinks go out on round wood tables, one of them outside under a painted leaf mural.
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