High Rise Coffee Roasters

The retail space is tiny. That's part of why a chunk of High Rise Coffee Roasters' loyal following lives somewhere other than Colorado Springs and keeps the online orders coming after moving away. The shop is small enough that the relationship with the beans matters more than the room itself.

Fresh-roasted organic is the baseline. They rotate about fourteen varieties, with the French roast and the espresso blend named most often by regulars, and a water-process decaf for people who care about decaffeination method. Dark-roast drinkers tend to leave happy.

Light-roast hunters should know one thing. At least one regular flagged the lighter roast as overroasted and acidic, which is a real signal worth taking seriously if your palate runs toward bright Ethiopian and Kenyan single origins. This isn't the shop for that style. It's the shop for a fresh dark bag and a quick stop.

Free parking right across the street, which sounds minor until you're trying to grab beans in a hurry in Colorado Springs. The fit here is bean buyers who want fresh-roasted whole bean to brew at home, or to ship to a new ZIP code when the move finally happens.