INDEPENDENT STORYTELLING PLATFORM DOCUMENTING GRASSROOTS RACE CULTURE AND THE COMMUNITIES BEHIND IT
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Event coffee catering wasn’t something I set out to do. But somewhere between roasting my own beans and chasing the rhythm of gravel and mountain bike races and trail work days, it all came together.
Loam Coffee became something more than a roaster. It became a mobile coffee experience, grounded in the outdoors and fueled by people who show up for the hard and beautiful things.
The light was soft, the gravel still damp from the night before. Riders rolled in slowly, quiet in that pre-race way with legs tense and minds somewhere between stoke and nerves. I had already fired up the kettle in Nacho the Van, the smell of freshly ground beans mixing with pine and chain lube in the cool morning air. It wasn’t anything fancy. Just coffee, a little conversation, and the quiet satisfaction of showing up.
That’s the version of Loam Coffee I’ve grown to love most.
When I started Loam Coffee in 2015, I was only focused on roasting and selling bags of coffee. That was it. But things change. Businesses grow and evolve over time. Loam Coffee is going through an evolution right now.
Coffee. Photography. Why not bring them together?
Recently, Loam Coffee teamed up with Mudslinger Events to serve coffee at the Oregon 24-hour mountain bike race outside of Bend, Oregon. By the end, everyone was hot, sweaty, and exhausted, but at least there was coffee! Serving coffee to mountain bikers is special. It’s even more so when they’re slugging it out in a non-stop 24-hour race. Here’s what happened …
My dream of buying, living out of, and serving coffee in a swank Sprinter van was upended the day I was offered to buy a 1995 Chevy Sportvan for $200. My $100k dream Sprinter van would have to wait. Thus the legend of Nacho the MTB Van was born.
