For casual coffee drinkers in Denver, an exciting new option for a diverse selection of cups has arrived with the opening of the first retail bar from three-year-old Moru Specialty Coffee Roasters.

Yet for the specialty coffee industry of Colorado and beyond, this new shop is only the tip of a widely progressive iceberg.

Not long after Scott Mowrey and Kenneth Ruterbories roasted the first batch of Moru coffee over Thanksgiving weekend in 2016, the company created RoasterShare Denver, a cooperative educational and training space for other aspiring start-ups and shop-owners to build knowledge and rent time on MORU roasting and cupping equipment. [Read the full article… ]