Rose Park Coffee Roasters

A Giesen W15 has been running since around mid-2018, and every one of the nine single origins on the retail line carries region, elevation, producer, varietal and process — everything except a roast date. Phillips has said outright that a well-dialed batch brewer holds consistency in a cafe better than a pour-over does, and none of the three Rose Park shops runs a pour-over bar.

• An early start
• Batch filter of a single origin
• Buying beans for home
• A neighborhood sit

Rose Park roasts its own on a Giesen W15, installed around mid-2018, with green sourced through three named importers (Cafe Imports, Red Fox Coffee Merchants and InterAmerican Coffee) for a rotating line of nine single origins plus three blends. Lot pages go deep, the Kenya Uteuzi Jimbo reading Embu, 1,300–1,900 masl, Batian/SL28/SL34/Ruiru 11, washed, though no roast date appears on any product page.

Camp Design built this room out end to end — concept, custom furniture, custom lighting, signage and the hand lettering — including the “Welcome to the Process” wall that Rose Park liked enough to make the design theme of its next two shops. A tagline painted on a wall in 2014 that later told two more rooms what to look like is a decent argument for getting the first one right.