Kickstarter

Five years ago, I began my own personal quest to create an amazing coffee experience at home. I read books, I experimented and spent years developing a coffee craft. Now I'm ready to bring that experience to the streets of San Francisco and beyond. And I'm appealing to you to help me officially launch in January.

In a city that's littered with exceptional coffee experiences, I think there's more to bring coffee lovers and/or anyone seeking the highest-quality ingredients. Enter DRIP'D Coffee, the first truly mobile coffee bar that will use certified raw milk, in addition to the best local coffee, local organic [pasteurized] whole milk, organic pastries and cold brew bottled iced coffee.

DRIP'D Coffee's Mission

This isn't solely about profit, but truly for my personal love and drive to create a personal experience with each customer. DRIP'D will begin as a part-time passion project, operating primarily on weekends in San Francisco for the first year. I'm going to give up 99% of my free time to follow a dream of serving coffee to coffee-loving people, and hopefully make a great deal of new friends along the way.

I want DRIP'D to be completely mobile, to be flexible enough to offer instructional coffee classes (e.g., espresso making 101), with the ability to cater private events. The design of the cart will reflect a old-fashioned reclaimed wood style to create a unique experience unlike anything else outdoors.

The idea and passion is there. Help me bring it to reality!

I have a 32-page business plan and have worked out all the details on equipment and cost, will power the cart with direct [cleaner-burning] propane and battery power, using no gasoline or generators.

Sightglass here in San Francisco is on board to provide coffee, which is an amazing company to have support us from the start. Please, go check out Sightglass to see all the amazing things they're doing in the coffee world.

                      ABOVE: Just a couple things we're working on...

A Quick Word about Raw Dairy

Raw milk can be served in California (I've verified with the SF Health Department) from two certified raw dairies: Organic Pastures and Claravale. I personally love the taste of raw milk, but more than anything, I want to offer people the choice of milk with their coffee, something that's never been done in this type of setting.

I occasionally get asked if steaming raw milk does in fact pasteurize it. From the extensive research I've been able to do, the amount of time steaming milk for espresso (about 7-12 seconds) doesn't even come close to the total time and temperature required to pasteurize milk. So even steamed milk retains most of its living state. Regardless, certified raw milk dairies in CA are held to the strictest of quality standards, and the cows that produce milk at these dairies are the healthiest you will find. You can rest assured you're getting top quality milk. But if you're not into raw, that's fine too. We'll offer organic [pasteurized] milk, as well.

What We Need from You!

The company will start with the support of my wife Melissa, friends and family, but we don't have enough startup money to launch DRIP'D by January 2013. So we're appealing to you, the Kickstarter community, to help give us the push to make this dream a reality.  

Starting a mobile food facility in San Francisco is like opening a mini restaurant. There are extensive startup fees dealing with permits/health department fees ($3 - 5K), shared kitchen space, storage, equipment ($10K) and more.

In return for helping us reach our goal, we're offering an awesome array of perks, from local coffee cards to cold brew iced coffee, custom t-shirts (designed by an award-winning local designer), instructional classes and more.

A huge thanks for everyone and their support or for taking the time to read this far!