A lot of people drink coffee but most don’t turn that love of it into a thriving small business. But that’s just what Karissa Savage and Frieda Cornejo have done.
“Coffee has been our thing,” said Savage. “We go to different coffee shops every time we’re traveling and it has just been part of our culture as a couple so it was a no brainer when we had the opportunity to start roasting our own coffee, we were like lets do coffee, we love it, we’re passionate about it.”
They’re importing green coffee beans from Peru and roasting them in Calgary to create their own brand called Motherlode Coffee. The business is based in Calgary and opened in June 2020.
“At the beginning it was like we love coffee, love the smell of coffee, love the culture of coffee, but we didn’t really know that specific taste,” said Savage. “So it took a lot of trial and error, a lot of training our taste palates, a lot of cupping sessions.”
The two began to recognize the different aspects of…
