About

Denton Coffee Collab is a nano coffee roaster in Denton, TX run by Jeremy and Shannon Ottens. Jeremy currently works full time in the financial services industry and roasted coffee professionally for 6 years prior. Shannon is a dance instructor at A Time To Dance Studio in Corinth, TX. Both have a dream of serving Denton with their passion and gift for hospitality. While we run this alongside our full time jobs and raising two daughters, our hope is to have a physical café and roastery in the coming years.

Our approach to coffee is a balanced one (pun intended). We recognize that the greatest power of coffee is not in impressing folks with the advances in coffee processing and preparation, but a harkening to home and home away from home. As such, our goal is to produce something that you can be proud to serve to your own guests and perhaps something that reminds you of sweet memories with sweeter friends. The Collab is all about bringing down barriers and celebrating the beautiful things!

Our roasting style seeks balance, sweetness, and solubility among lots that yield big, buttery, flavor.  In many cases we trade roasting darker for roasting longer because it reduces acidity while increasing sweetness and body. In roasting for solubility, we desire that our coffee be easy to extract and forgiving to brew. So if the only available water is the incredibly hard Denton city water, and a $10 coffee-maker, our coffee will still shine. That said, we love to keep things on the menu to titillate the taste-buds of the most progressive of coffee-drinkers.

While we don't have a large green buying history, the average price of our green coffee is $6.60/lb. shipped to our door as of September 2024. We hope that as we grow in volume, we'll be able to bring down the shipping costs of sourcing small quantities, giving us even more ability to invest in the quality of our products.

Thanks for reading. We hope that you and your guests enjoy the fruits of our labor.

<3 Jeremy & Shannon

 

Fruit of the Earth
  In your death, birth
Burned and broken
  Boiled devotion
Matchless fragrant
  Rich or vagrant
All are welcome
  Come and drink from
     This kind of warmth

-A coffee poem by Jeremy Ottens