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Continued on page 20 Keep It Clean, Cold-Brewers You've got to make cold brew, so you've got keep your cold-brew gear clean. Cleaning for cold brew means more than wiping it down or rinsing it off—you've got to sanitize your equipment, too. While standard drip brewers only require a cleaning solution to remove coffee oils and residue, cold-brew equipment requires both cleaning and sanitization to maintain proper hygiene, due to the ambient temperature at which cold coffee is brewed. So just like they have for the last 80 years, the folks at Urnex have stepped up with a simple solution: The new 1-2-Cold Brew kit. The kit features a two-step process consisting of a liquid cleaner—Clearly Cold—as well as a liquid sanitizer—Complete Café—to ensure that every batch of cold-brewed coffee is both delicious and safe. www.urnex.com A Roaster for the People Bellwether Coffee is redefi ning the supply chain by empowering retailers to roast on-site, serve amazing coffees under their own brand, and benefi t from the highest industry margins. Sounds impossible, right? Get ready to have your roasting world rocked, folks: Bellwether's roaster is easier to install than an espresso machine, and makes roasting accessible to any café—just plug the ventless, zero-emission, electric roaster into a 220- volt plug. It's about the size of a standard refrigerator. "Our guiding light is inclusivity, and we've made every effort to abide by this principle," says Ricardo Lopez, Bellwether cofounder and CEO, who has worked with a coffee brain trust in the roaster development that includes Dani Goot, Gabe Boscana, Arno Holschuh, and Izzy Fraire. Users can bene- fi t from Bellwether's business-automation tools that allow a small café to become a roaster without increasing labor costs, with a full platform for green-coffee purchasing, available roast profi les (and info on how to create your own), and inventory tracking. www.bellwethercoffee.com AWAY TAKE 18 barista magazine