By Day
Hopped Coffee, BunnyhopBrewed in Chattanooga; poured at Velo Coffee, 509 E. Main St.
By Night
Coffee BeerTake coffee into the night with a beer-forward bevvy. Here’s a quick list of our favorite pours brewed close enough to home that we might as well call them our own.Love Supreme, heaven and aleBrewed in ChattanoogaPoured at Heaven and Ale, 304 Cherokee Blvd.Gotta Get Up to get down, WiseacreBrewed in MemphisAvailable at select Food City locationsInfusion A, Hoppin’ Frog BreweryBrewed in Akron, OhioPoured at The Tap House, 3800 St. Elmo Ave.
Fans of IPAs who can’t get enough hops through their craft beer consumption can turn to another sort of brew – Velo’s BunnyHop – to get their fix along with a dose of caffeine. The brainchild of former employee Cody Baldwin (who now owns and operates local hostel En Root House with wife Lizzy), BunnyHop is a hopped cold-brew coffee. Introduced at Velo during the summer of 2015, it’s been growing steadily in sales and popularity ever since.
“We had seen a couple people use hops creatively in non-alcoholic drinks, and we had been playing around with coffee sodas here in the shop, but we hadn’t seen a coffee-centric drink that employed both hops and carbonation in the way we imagined,” Velo owner Andrew Gage says of the drink’s origins.
The concept was simple: combine a single-origin (not commercially blended) coffee, a single-origin local honey and a single variety of hops.