Alright one, two, three, hell yeah!
(The crowd goes wild!)
Really good! This is the San Francisco
Coffee Festival 2019! And this year it is huge, it’s massive in here, probably 3 to
4 times bigger than last year! There’s way more vendors. We’re at the Fort Mason Festival
Pavilion, and yeah, the venue itself is giant there are over 90 vendors. There’re places
to sit this year. They have coffee and they have a bunch of tea vendors. Really, really
excited to get some coffee and get some tea today! Let’s go! We just got our first cup
of coffee from Counter Culture this is probably our favorite roaster because the beans are
just amazing. Super smooth! And today they have their rose water cappuccino and it’s
really good. So smooth and it’s so tasty, so smooth this coffee is honestly our favorite.
Onto coffee number two for the day this is Buddha Beans, this is a cold brew that they
have that actually is hemp-inspired so it has 2 mg of CBD in it so it’s CBD cold brew.
Super smooth! And onto our 3rd one is Motivate or Motivat coffee roasters, this one is Ethiopian
light roast pourover. Wow! Very smooth for a pourover, very fruity. Ethiopia coffee is
probably one of the best. 3 coffees deep and we’re gonna take a break and eat some mochi
donuts and mochi muffins. We got 4 here we go the original, we got the black sesame,
we got the Thai tea and we got the chai donut. There’re just so many flavors this year, so many more options.
So many roasteries from all around the Bay Area, from around Northern
California in general here and if you love coffee this is definitely the place to be!
Oh I got it!!!!
And for coffee number 4 we actually forgot to record drinking it because we were
so excited to drink it because it was so good but this is Quokka Brew, it’s a roastery
run by UC Berkeley students and they have some really, really smooth and really, really
strong cold brew, absolutely loved what we had. So naturally, Phil and I are very fast
talkers so with more caffeine and coffee, we’re gonna talk really, really, really,
really fast. So I’m trying my best right now to talk much slower and annunciate, but
it’s gonna go out the roof later. Is it working??? 4 coffees deep, I can already catch
myself going a little bit too fast, if we’re going too fast, there are subtitles. This
is their nitro cold brew, this is from Peerless coffee, I’ve never heard of them before
but they make great lattes and draft lattes. Oh it has honey in it! You can definitely
taste the honey. This is really good! Onto number 6 now, this is from Rise Nitro Brewing
Company I asked where they were from and they said they were from Stamford and I asked oh
like from the Office? This comes from their canned nitro cold brew with oat milk, let’s give it a try.
It’s really smooth and really good oh my gosh. Onto number 7, Temple Coffee,
this is their Kenya roast. It’s really good flavor. It’s a pourover made with a Chemex.
So Sextant coffee has affogato! Oh my god this my favorite, affogato if you’ve never
heard of it or had it before it is espresso over ice cream. Oh my god espresso and ice cream
are probably one of the best combos ever.
Is this number 9? Because I'm losing
count… Anyway this is from the Crown, this is a Costa Rice naturally processed coffee,
a really bright and clear-tasting cup of coffee from Costa Rica! We got some samples here from La Colombe.
This is the caramel oat milk. I’ve seen on store shelves like Trader Joe’s
they have an original draft latte and also a vanilla draft latte, but this mocha draft
latte, I’ve never tried it before. Big fans of La Colombe, went to their stores in New York.
So we’re gonna take a quick coffee break and get some tea behind us right now.
In the middle of the festival is a lot of tea vendors so cleanse our palette a little bit
and then have more coffee. Hojicha latte from U Dessert Story, I love hojicha it’s like
really concentrated tea. Hojicha gets its brown color from the branches of green tea,
they don’t really use leaves, so that’s why it’s brown. This is Thaiwala, they’re
selling Thai tea concentrate, this one is the non-dairy one. Not as punchy as I’m
used to but it’s still really good. This is Topo Chico, this is mineral water, good
for coffee or chasing between espressos. This sparkling water here is super refreshing right
now, we definitely need it. Love coffee, love tea, but this is a Good palette cleanser.
This is from Tea People, which is the Boba Guys family, I think this where they source
all the teas for the teas at Boba Guys, their Malibu cocktail, coconut green tea with strawberry
puree and the spearmint. Now we’re gonna take a little break and snack on some Third
Culture mochi donuts actually. Got the chai latte one, it matches my body suit, definitely
tastes like chai, which is amazing.
One really cool thing they have this year that they didn’t
have last year is that they have Coffee Convos, so they basically have short lectures throughout
the weekend where they talk about coffee-related topics it’s really interesting if you’re
passionate about learning about coffee and how to brew. I think this is super cool and
I love that they’re doing this this year! We got some samples here from Lee’s Sandwiches,
they actually have a Lee’s Coffee booth and they have the ca phe sua da, which is
the Vietnamese iced coffee. They gave us 2 original ca phe sua das and that’s the strong
one. This is super, super good actually! It’s that really strong coffee flavor and the really
sweet condensed milk. Who knew that Lee’s had concentrate bottles? I thought it was
just like a storefront where you buy banh mi and stuff but they sell it too and it’s
actually really good! Lot of craft roasteries here and you know, your typical local stuff
but Lee’s Coffee, definitely super good, too! So I lost count, but this is number 10,
11 or 12, I don’t know but Cafe Reveille is one of my favorite coffees in San Francisco
they make really great cappuccinos and their cafes are just really cute and adorable, they
have cute pink tables and they have cute coffee that’s super aesthetic too. And if it hasn’t
been clear already, the SF Coffee Festival is the premier event for coffee-lovers in
San Francisco and the Bay Area. There’s something for everybody here, if you love
coffee, you’ll love the festival. This is a nitro cold brew from Allegro, they’re
actually sold at Whole Foods in their Whole Foods bars, things like that. One of my favorite
nitro cold brews actually and I don’t say that often because I don’t love nitro as
much as Phil. This is Califia’s, it’s a nitro oat milk latte and there’s a lot
of it this year. It’s like the new popular drink! Today we ran into tons of you guys
who watched our video from last year and it was really fun, so if you ever see us in San
Francisco and wanna say hi, feel free to come up to us! We love meeting you guys, so don’t
be shy :) This is from Cento, it’s actually a roastery that’s based in South of Market
in San Francisco (Soma) and they have here this African blend, really good, has my favorite
Yirgacheffe in it, it’s a really clear and chocolatey tasting kind of coffee. So each
session here is 3 hours long, and we’ve been here for about 2 hours drinking coffee
nonstop, and I’m feeling pretty good, how about you?! I’m pretty wired! We stopped
in for some Verve this is a roaster we really like in Santa Cruz, they have their nitro
flash brew here where you flash with hot water and then you do a cold brew technique, this
is really good, really smooth, absolutely love it. At Bluestone Lane now for a piccolo
latte, this really cute and adorable little small latte right here. We actually covered
Bluestone Lane in our Top 10 Union Square video, if you haven’t seen it yet, make
sure to check it out. We really love this place, it’s based in New York, but they
really strive for that Australian coffee culture, which is awesome. So much interesting coffee-related
stuff here beyond just coffee, they actually have Painted with Coffee, which is art made
with coffee, literally. They have coffee paintings of Bob Marley and Harvey Milk with coffee
as the medium, actually. Yeah it’s a coffee festival, but there are tons of other vendors
now this year, there are honey, a lot of food around us, there’s a lot of tea, so there’s
honestly a lot of things for everyone here. This is super worth it for us and next year
we might for go the VIP, pay a little bit more, get an extra hour, get some extra goodies.
SF Coffee Festival is definitely great for anybody who loves coffee. It’s a much bigger
venue than last year, so I thoroughly enjoyed that there was much more room. The weather
was perfect, it’s not too hot in here and yeah we overall really enjoyed it! Thinking
about whether or not to go to the Coffee Festival? We highly recommend it! If you haven’t already,
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