Whisky Business
PRE-SALE and EXTREMELY limited! All orders containing Whisky Business will ship out around November 16! Enjoy the slow burn 🥃
You’ve waited all year, and it’s finally back. Whisky Business is the annual favourite regulars start asking about months ahead, and this year’s was a labour of love. Our Roasters have spent months rotating the barrels by hand, coaxing the oak and spirit character evenly into the greens, while we periodically tested the fragrance and saturation to know the exact moment they were ready to roast and blend.
That patience, dedication, and craft is why Whisky Business only comes around once a year in strictly limited numbers. One note before you pour: though these beans spent months drinking in the whisky character from otherwise empty barrels, the finished cup is zero-proof. Get it while it lasts, because when it’s gone, it’s gone until next year.
Aged in Barrels, Raised in Antigua
Beneath the barrel character sits a coffee worth the billing. Whisky Business is built on a fully washed community lot from the Antigua Valley of Guatemala, a storied region cradled by three looming volcanoes whose ash gives the soil its famous richness. It’s a blend of Bourbon, Caturra, and Typica cherry gathered from estates and smallholders across the valley, then processed centrally at a historic wet mill by the meticulous team at Los Volcanes. Dried in the Guatemalan sun, it carries the butterscotch-to-marzipan sweetness the region is known for, the perfect base to drink in all that oak and spirit. Two coffee traditions, one very good glass raised in your direction.
FAQ
Stuff Everyone’s AskingWe provide free shipping for all orders over $75 within Canada. Shipping can take anywhere from one to 10 days within Canada, longer if you're outside the country.
Your tracking number will be sent to the email address provided when your order has been processed. Funk Coffee is not responsible for delays in your package delivery. If you have any concerns with your delivery, or need to change delivery arrangements, please first check the status of the tracking number sent to you before contacting us.
Wholesale orders for customers in the Lower Mainland, placed by 12pm on Wednesdays, are delivered the next Thursday. That's also when we deliver any orders for pickup at FUNK Coffee Bar, located at 1025 Dunsmuir St, Vancouver. You will receive an email when your order is ready for pickup!
All sales are final. If your order was damaged along the way, please reach out to orders@funk.coffee so we can resolve this as quickly as possible.
Yes! We currently offer two locations where you can pick up your order — FUNK Coffee Bar and House of Funk Brewing. Simply choose the "Pickup in-store" option at checkout and select your desired pickup location.
We deliver orders to those locations for pickup on Thursday afternoons. To ensure your order is included, place it no later than 10am the previous Wednesday!
Such a key question. Once roasted, coffee can stay fresh for several weeks — even a full month or two, if it’s sealed in an airtight container away from heat, light, and moisture. As it happens, our 250g coffee cans keep beans beautifully fresh, with their opaque material and the oxygen-scavenging seal in the cap. We’ve even had great results from freezing the beans, again in airtight, watertight packaging.
We tend to find coffee is too fresh if it’s brewed right after roasting, as the beans haven’t had time to rest and degas. Try it and you’ll find all that gas actually disrupts the contact of water to grinds, causing uneven extraction. Give the beans 3-7 days to age, and you’ll enjoy those exciting funky flavours all the more.
At the Coffee Bar, we actually age our espresso for at least three weeks before service!
Ideally, one week after the roast date — but at our Coffee Bar, we rest our espresso (sealed in its bag and stored away from heat, light, and moisture) for three weeks.
We want our coffees to be a full expression of the varietal, terroir, and process that the producers have so masterfully cultivated. So we roast the beans just long enough for our good friend Maillard to bring those funky flavours to palatable, aromatic life. Any longer and the exciting, naturally-occuring acidity in the coffee starts to degrade, and the flavour vibrancy we’re crazy about begins to dim.
As we love to say — acidity is not a crime, and you deserve better than bitter!
No sweat — the tasting notes we list are simply the flavours that coffee reminds us of, not in any way a reflection of the ingredients. Our coffees do not interact with anything else in our roastery, except for our barrel-aged coffees. They may have been grown or shipped alongside other products but generally there are no lasting vestiges of any allergens.
Acidity is the stuff of life!! It’s acidity that makes our favourite foods so next-level delicious. Think about how much you’d miss the tangy tomato sauce on your pizza, the hot sauce on your chicken wings, or the ketchup on your fries…
That secret pickle juice addition makes potato salad a million times better. Bananas would taste only of sugar without a smidge of tartaric acid. And believe it or not, honey is quite acidic, landing somewhere between 3.2 and 4.5 on the pH scale (right up there with grapes, peaches, and tomatoes).
We roast our coffee light here at FUNK, which means the naturally occurring acids (citric, malic, acetic, lactic, etc.) that result from the unique combination of varietal, growing conditions, region, processing, etc. and create such exciting profiles, tend to degrade when exposed to higher temperatures for longer periods of time.
Quinic acid, meanwhile, develops as those acids degrade during roasting, creating sour, bitter, and astringent flavours. You deserve better than bitter, so we lean into bright, sparkling acidity!
So glad you asked! They’re emblematic of when we roasted coffee and brewed beer under the same roof as House of Funk. We were gifted the can concept by our beer brethren — the crowlers are usually made for holding beer, but they’re actually ideal for coffee: the aluminum is porous, shielding the contents from air and light; there’s an oxygen-scavenging seal in the cap that continues to draw oxygen out of the can even once opened; and the sides provide ample real estate for showcasing funky artistic collaborations.
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