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Publisher: Native Design Press
Published: Jan 13 2026
Pages: 432
Language: English
Writing a book seemed like a Pheidippidean task. One beyond my endurance, beyond my attention span, maybe beyond my abilities. But as we hit the twenty-year mark of the DoubleShot, I started looking back over my career and thinking about all the crazy and remarkable things that have happened. I've grown and matured and found a deeper well of patience and a team that supports what I do. I've found a rhythm to life, and it has allowed me to stop and think for once, not about what I should be doing, but about what happened and how I got here.
And so I've written. I've written things that no one knows about. I've written things I'd forgotten about. I've never been a big talker (I talk big but I don't talk a lot), and I don't particularly enjoy telling people about things I've done. But it was time, and I dug deep. I went back to the beginning, even earlier, and I explained my thoughts, my experiences, my perspective. I'm fortunate that I started journaling in my early twenties and have filled nearly thirty diaries with a bazillion words describing everything from the mundane day to my wildest dreams.
But this is more than the story of my coffee career. This is a book that will tell you what coffee is, where it comes from, where it came from, how it gets from tropical farms to your coffee table. I've tried to lay out everything you need to know to really appreciate coffee. So that whether you're brewing bad grocery store coffee or sipping on some of the finest beans in the world, your coffee experiences will be better by being fully informed.
Fans of our shop have been looking at me for years wondering what the hell was going on inside my skull, and I could never explain it. But I'm going to explain it. I'm going to tell you how I learned to run and how that taught me to run a business. I'm going to explain what it was like living without utilities for three-and-a-half years. Why I slept in a plastic chair on the streets of Long Beach. How I barely kept from peeing my pants with a pistol pointed at my forehead in Guatemala. And I'll tell you what I learned from all those experiences, and more.
It's not just my story, though. My mission from the start was about serving great coffee to people who appreciated it. Without them, there is no DoubleShot. Without them I have no purpose. This book is an extension of the coffee, if you will. It's a rear-view explanation of all the events you may have been a part of, or wondered about, or heard rumors about, or didn't know about. Where there were gaps in the knowledge they have been filled.
One day, heading to lunch, I saw a clean-cut young guy walking toward me. Straight toward me, as in awkwardly bee-lining for me. When he got close, he told me I make the best coffee on the planet. He told me he was a huge fan, and had been coming in since we were in the old location. I'm probably better at reading negative reviews than I am at taking compliments, so I clumsily thanked him and said something like, We try hard. But that guy is folk. He's why I wrote this book. Maybe you've been buying coffee from us online. Maybe you've never heard of DoubleShot Coffee Company. That's OK too, because no one ever heard of us until they did. And when you know, you know.
If coffee is a big part of your life (even more if DoubleShot is a big part of your life), this is a field guide for you. If you're even thinking of one day having a shop of your own, read here first. You might find it indispensable. If nothing else, I promise you'll enjoy it.
-- Brian Franklin, Roastmaster, DoubleShot Coffee Company
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