Brew Culture Coffee — Restaurant in Denver

I’m a regular here and really enjoy this place a ton. It’s where I completed all my residency applications and studied for my competency exams and survived covid in the winter working from home. The owner is very kind and the atmosphere is lovely and perhaps most salient— the espresso is my favorite in town. I cannot stress this enough: their lattes are unparalleled. The high ceilings, wood, and plants all come together super well too, for a place you want to work from. And if you’re hungry there’s an assortment of baked goods or tasty burritos. Get the cardamom latte if you love yourself.

I was sitting right next to the person who left a review recently who mentioned a rude encounter with the employee (who is the owner) after she stayed in the cafe for at least an hour without purchasing anything, obliviously talking loudly on the phone and working on her laptop while paying customers waited for a place to sit. He was extremely kind and courteous to her. Just to state the obvious, if you’re going to enjoy the wifi and atmosphere of a place, least of all in a pandemic with restricted seating, the least you can do is buy a $2 topo chico. That’s common sense. What’s sad is that anyone at any time has a platform to air their grievances even if they’re baseless. TLDR; this place deserves...

Good, solid coffee with plenty of great espresso options and fantastic seating but sadly no pour overs.

Order: Campfire Cappuccino, Cappuccino, Kombucha Flight About: $14

Review: The first of our many coffee stops in Denver, Brew Culture felt like a bit of a hidden gem. It’s very hard to tell from the parking lot and almost impossible to tell from the street that there is a coffee shop in that location. But once you’re inside they have a fantastic seating area with plenty of chairs, outlets to plug your computer into study and honestly just a great environment.

We ended up ordering a Campfire Cappuccino, which was a seasonal whiskey-based cappuccino, their normal Cappuccino and a kombucha flight. It was all pretty good though I think the campfire Cappuccino was just a little bit underwhelming. I’m not entirely sure what I expected but it tasted a bit like what I a would imagine whisky and espresso mixed would be. I’m sure some people would love it but it wasn’t really for me.

Outside of that the espresso was really good, and we loved getting to try different kombucha without their flight. While I wish that they had options for pour overs I still think Brew Culture is an awesome cafe and a great place to...

I always want to try new coffee shops anywhere I go, and to see what they bring to the table, so my bar for "alright coffee" is pretty low. But everything here, from espresso, to matcha, to pastries, is just plain terrible.

We got the almond croissant, lemon poppyseed doughnut, matcha with pistachio milk, latte with whiskey & maple syrup, and a sweet chai with oat milk.

The pistachio milk is somehow both sour and bitter, and adding more honey made it somehow worse. The matcha tasted like dirt with just a hint of grass. And the pastries... They were very clearly day old at least, much too hard. But also, how do you make a doughnut taste like shrimp? How? Rebel Bread (their pastry supplier) makes fantastic pastries, we've been there many times, but these were horrible.

The service was good, and they did offer to replace the matcha drink when I asked about it, plus the cute decor and live music were beautiful. But I would not...