Today for My #CoffeeADay Initiative, Paul and Neal Warner and I talked about how they hustle to elevate the coffee game in Indianapolis.
My CoffeeADay Initiative: 1 cup of coffee with 1 person, every day.
I called Paul and Neal the Coffee Brothers. I’m pretty sure I’m not the first to label them as such.
Paul and Neal along with Paul’s wife, Audreyalice are the Co-Owners of Indianapolis’ newest craft coffee bar, Coat Check Coffee. It’s always interesting to learn where small business owners’ journeys begin. None of the Coat Check Co-Owners came from the coffee industry. In fact, Paul and Neal have music education and production backgrounds.
Neal had a coffee awakening in 2010 that eventually led him on a journey from Madison, Wisconsin to Athens, Georgia and finally to Indianapolis. It’s been a whirlwind education that’s placed him in the who’s who of coffee in Indianapolis.
When the brothers decided to team up and then also team up with the Athenaeum Foundation, their goal became to not only elevate the coffee game but the coffee experience in Indianapolis.
Now, surrounded by the richness of the historic Athenaeum building, Young Actor’s Theater, Indy Metro Church, the Rathskellar and the YMCA, Paul and Neal are combining high-quality local roasts, grass-fed milks and award-winning baristas to give city-dwellers and theater-goers a family-friendly coffee experience like no other.
What are you trying to elevate in your community?
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Learn more about the Coat Check Coffee story on their website.