A Denver-based coffee roaster is the jittery talk of New York City

The last time Akron/Family was in town, this past March on tour, it had one mission: to find the perfect cup of Colorado joe. The East Coast band (which brings its experimental folk-jam to the Bluebird Theater tonight, July 31) is obsessive about its coffee, and its favorite brew—Heartbreaker Espresso, sold exclusively at Cafe Grumpy in New York City—just happens to be roasted by Denver’s own Novo Coffee.

“The Heartbreaker just has that thing,” says Miles Seaton, multi-instrumentalist for the group. “It’s one of my favorite espressos ever. It becomes a situation where I have to leave the coffee shop or I will keep drinking it until I make myself sick—it’s that good.”

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