Product Description

COMING FALL 2024

We’re pretty serious about our coffee and can’t wait to unveil our coffee and espresso bar. We’ll offer coffee, espresso, a slow bar with Pour-Overs and flash brewed iced coffee, latte’s, cold brew, teas, and some other creative drinks we’ve got in our repertoire.

We also roast our own coffee, and will be doing that on-site (You can buy our coffee here: www.shortsleevescoffee.com). So while you drink, you may be surrounded by burlap sacks of coffee, and will watch and smell the journey of coffee roasting unfold. We’re excited to offer a window into that…we think it’s a really cool process.

At some point, we’ll open up events for the community to gather tasting coffees, learning how to brew coffee using different methods, and discussions surrounding sustainability, ethics, and how we find those things important in the coffee industry; and the implications we feel they have for just about every other industry.

SUMMARY:
Short Sleeves Coffee will offer its space as a hub for fantastic coffee served in a friendly way.

Seeking to build connection in Swannanoa through down-to-earth hospitality; all done over an intentionally prepared cup of coffee…we might say our goal succinctly like this:

Coffee and people; handled with care.

If we do those two things right, I’d say we’ve hit the mark.

ABOUT US (DANIEL & EMILY LANCASTER):
We’ve spent the last 10 years researching, working, and teaching in the coffee industry. You can read about our work here. It’s this experience in the coffee industry that has launched Daniel and Emily into building Short Sleeves Coffee. We’re excited to use our expertise to bring a truly craft coffee experience to residents of Swannanoa…showing people what beautiful things can come out of an otherwise ordinary brown bean.

With our 3 kids (Elliot, 5; Theodore, 3; and Louise, 2mos old), we have a strong desire to see Swannanoa change from a place commonly dubbed “Swanna-nowhere” to a place that people are excited about visiting, that locals have pride in, and that the community surrounding is thriving in. Particularly, we have a heart to see Beacon Village bloom, and truly believe that over our time here, we’ll see the marvelous unfolding of a beautiful neighborhood, community, and people over thousands of cups of coffee served.

THE SPACE:
Situated in Swannanoa’s historic Gas Station built in 1928, we’re excited about the moments already shared in this space and are looking forward to the many new moments to come.

We are thankful for the work of restoration that we can do in bringing this building back to life (maybe just serving a different kind of fuel now?).

We hope you feel our hospitality welcome you when you enter our space. By “our” space, we mean, well, the people of Swannanoa’s space.

We’re going to make you incredible coffee. We think our coffee is top notch…and we care about it deeply. However, we want to share it with you in a laid back, accessible, down to earth, friendly manner.

You’re gonna get excellent coffee, sure. However, more than that, with every cup you drink, and every time you step into our cafe, we invite you to remember the simple, ordinary things in life. We’ll encourage you to loosen up your tie…and maybe undo that top button too. You don’t have to put on layers and pretend here…there’s no dress code; just come in your short sleeves.