Like a lot of young people in love, Jeremiah Kinser used to find any excuse to be around his now fiance, Laura Tolliver.
As a student at Kennesaw State near Atlanta, he was accustomed to having lots of entertainment options, so when the two moved back to the North Georgia area where they’d both grown up, he found that hanging out at the Starbucks in the less cosmopolitan Dalton where she worked served two missions for him.
“I used to love listening to the workers there, the really knowledgeable ones, talk about coffee,” he said.
Coffee became a passion for him and six years ago he started the Chattanooga Coffee Crawl as a way to share his love. He was so passionate about it, in fact, he didn’t even charge to take small groups of strangers around to local coffee shops.
Today, the tours cost $25, and he has added a new coffee-related venture with the creation of the Chattanooga Coffee Box, an online enterprise that will deliver coffees from local roasters and shops to your door.