I assume if you’re a follower of the PT’s Coffee Blog, then you must be bound to the bean: As big a coffee nerd as the rest of us!

Birds of a feather, I suppose.

I assume, also, if you appreciate a pleasing cup of coffee as much as I, then you must at least have a basic understanding of (and thus, a principled respect for) the art of coffee.

Our friend John Dean, Brewmaster of Blind Tiger Brewery and Restaurant, has recently taken this appreciation and, for lack of a better term, fermented it.

Topeka’s only Brew-pub, located approximately five miles north of us at 37th and Kansas Ave., entered the nation’s largest beer competition, Denver’s Great American Beer Festival, Sat. Oct. 13. Dean and Brewer Alvaro Canizales took home a silver medal in the “Coffee Beer” category for their outstanding Java Porter.

Dean purchases green Ipanema from us regularly and has, in his pursuit of an outstanding coffee beer, triumphed in the art of home-roasting.

Coffee…and beer…all in one chilled pint glass.  You’ve got to try this award-winning brew to believe it.

Congrats, John and Al!

Cheers,

Bret

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