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Superior cafe: beer, gear, and coffee

Ron, the owner and founder of Superior Coffee

Iced coffee of the available drip medium roast coffee and pour over of El Salvador medium roast single origin

The bar in Superior Cafe was always hopping when I walked in

El Salvador Single Origin medium roast coffee roasted at Superior Coffee. I had this at the Superior Cafe as a to-order pour over. The coffee starts out with a full bodied bready flavor and the light and fruity notes follow. A well made and freshly roasted coffee that accents the flavor of the beans without masking their flavor and origin.

Tables in Superior Cafe, packaged and on their way somewhere, just like the green coffee beans that come into Superior Coffee’s roastery.

Coffee bar and gear shop. SO pour over or French press available to order as well as ready drip coffee. A selection of teas and herbal infusions.

Superior Cafe is located in the historic tourist district of Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, near the corner of Portage Street and Ashmun.

What makes this coffee shop a must see when visiting Sault Sainte Marie (home of the Soo Locks, Lake Superior State University, and the International Bridge to Canada) is that all their coffee is freshly and locally roasted. This is something that no other coffee shop in the Soo can beat and makes this shop a unique first in the city that originated the nickname of Wolverine for Michiganders.

I met with the owner, founder, and head roaster, Ron, who has completed the Boot Coffee Certificate in Roast Profiling & Cupping. He has a clear vision for his enterprise, selecting coffees from their countries of origin, green and in large bulk sacks, roasting the beans at his roastery only a couple miles away up the hill on Ashmun, and selling the whole beans at his roastery and coffee shop.

Superior Cafe is the best place to sample the roasts of Superior Coffee roastery. While the menu has a thorough selection of teas by their fermentation level (black, oolong, green, and white), as well as herbal infusions; they offer the most recently roasted single origins and blends from Superior Coffee as pour over or French press, made-to-order. Superior Cafe also serves espresso and espresso based drinks. In addition, Superior Cafe has ready-made dark roast or medium roast drip coffee that can be used as a hot coffee or iced coffee.

Superior Cafe has three main themes: beer, gear, and coffee. The alcoholic bar shares the long bar with the coffee bar and was hopping each time I stepped in. The gear shop and outfitter are set off from the coffee shop and bar in the same space. The atmosphere is that of a kayaking and hiking outpost crossed with the bar and coffee shop: as good a place as any to start or end a wilderness pilgrimage to the North.

My next post will have a gallery of photos from the Superior Coffee roastery along with more about this first in the Soo.

Useful Link: Superior Cafe Facebook Page