Elemental Coffee Roasters to add bar at its new facility in Oklahoma

Elemental Coffee Roasters hopes to recruit a loyal crowd of coffee geeks to the new coffee bar it is fashioning out of a former garage in Midtown.

Starting Jan. 18, the company plans to roll up the garage door from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. at its new home at 815 N. Hudson Ave. to serve gourmet coffee to the morning downtown crowd Monday through Saturday.The back room of the warehouse is filled with burlap sacks and boxes of green coffee beans shipped from exotic locales like Guatemala and Kenya. Various scientific-looking measuring devices and Bunsen burners are strewn across a long table where Elemental's owners taste-test or "cup" all of the different coffees that pass through the warehouse."The one thing we want to express is our love of coffee," he said.The company is currently housed in a brick warehouse in an industrial area at 1825 W. Main St.The partners buy one coffee out of every 90 it tries in its taste- testing laboratory.* ATTEMPTED THEFT -Slaithwaite, Jan 6. Suspect approaches victim and attempts to place necklace around her neck, however, suspect then removes existing necklace and attempts to steal it. A member of public intervenes and suspect makes off. Suspect believed to be of Eastern European appearance then driven off by man in a black car.One of the men was wearing a black hooded jumper with a pink trim around the hood, and a pair of jeans with '96' written on the back."The staff member was left shocked and shaken by the experience.The other wore a black hooded top with white piping on the back.* ARSON -Cowlersley, Jan 6. Quarterlight smashed then vandals threw papers into vehicle and set it alight, causing extensive damage. * CRIMINAL DAMAGE -Four Horse Shoes, Market Street, Milnsbridge, Jan 9. Pub windows smashed with stones. Suspect made off chased by witness. * VEHICLE CRIME -Golcar, Jan 8. Suspect jumped in driver's seat of car with engine running while second suspect jumped into passenger side. Vehicle made off at speed and was later found burnt out.Police launched a probe after the raid, which happened at the garage on Barrack Road, was reported at around 2.55am on Saturday, November 6. Yet despite officers carrying out extensive inquiries, the thieves have not yet been traced.CONTACT: Dave Whitteron, Neighbourhood Watch Liaison, Kirkburton Police Station, Telephone: 01484-436840 or email: dw368@westyorkshire.pnn.police.uk or call Crimestoppers on 0800-555-111THIS is the terrifying moment raiders smashed their way into a city petrol station to steal cash and cigs.Thief got in through unlocked window. * ATTEMPTED ROBBERY -Golcar, Jan 8. Suspects approached motorist waiting in vehicle, opened offside door and tried to take vehicle keys, but victim drove off in vehicle leaving suspects behind.

"The one thing we want to express is our love of coffee," he said.

Author: Brianna Bailey