Coffee Cooperative Canadian Roasting Society Opens in Montreal | Eater Montreal

"Housed in a warehouse on St-Patrick Street in the Sud-Ouest, this community co-roasting space is set up like a “WeWork, but for coffee roasting”: members pay a couple hundred dollars a month for access to roasting equipment and services. I found the facility very well-stocked, with two Probat roasters, a reverse osmosis water filter, cupping and brewing labs, and storage for green coffee, allowing café owners to come in once a week or every two weeks to roast without the six-figure startup costs (Kyres estimates over $100,000 to go it alone). The project—created by Andy Kyres of Tunnel Espresso and Scott Rao (formerly of Café Myriade)—also plans public events such as palate-training programs and eventually a coffee shop and food on site, though no timeline is set." - Tim Forster