Driven Coffee Roasters

Driven Coffee Roasters is not a coffee shop, and a regular will tell you so before you ask. The Chanhassen, Minnesota operation runs as a roastery and wholesale business rather than a sit-down cafe. The pickup happens at the roastery, the bags go out to wholesale accounts and home customers, and the room is not built for lingering. Knowing that going in changes how you treat the place. The wholesale and fundraising side is where the real volume lives. Driven runs partnerships through the MoneyDolly app, which is unusual enough in the small-roaster world to be worth flagging, and they have a presence at Shakopee Brewhall along with other wholesale accounts around the region. The roasters know their beans, and customers picking up bags get walked through flavor profiles by staff who can match the roast to what the home brewer is going to do with it. The Tolima single-origin from Colombia is one of the calling-card bags. The Minneapolis Mud blend anchors the everyday-drinker side. Between those two, most home espresso brewers and drip drinkers in the Twin Cities can find their everyday bag and their treat-myself bag without leaving the lineup. Subscription and online ordering are the natural fit, and the website is set up for it. So is wholesale buying for cafes, restaurants, and offices around the Twin Cities, and fundraising organizers running coffee as part of a school or club program. If you are looking for a cafe to settle in with a book, this is not the address, and the regulars will say so directly. If you want a Minnesota roaster who will help you pick the right bag and ship it to you, Driven is the operation, and the Tolima or the Minneapolis Mud is the right place to start.