The SF Weekly writes about a coffee pop-up created by Fernando Diaz:

Diaz buys a good portion of his beans off his grandfather’s farm (the rest from another producer in Chiapas), beans which he then roasts under the mentorship of a friend at Uncommon Grounds in Berkeley. After that, you’ll find him popping up in the Mission with a folding table and three-cup pourover brewing set up shimmied from some thin copper pipes, grinding and brewing for $2 a cup. His right hand man is a friend, Travis Cabello. Together, they pop up all over 24th street. Sometimes, in the very early morning, they seem to be the only living things in the Mission.

The full story is here.

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