Ryan Jones, Co-Founder and Co-Owner
This year has certainly been strange, but we are hopeful that 2021 will be looking much brighter for Lincoln Road! I wanted to take a second and reflect on 2020 and share the good things that have happened with your support.
Expansion
With a shift in focus to distribution and e-commerce, we now support six coffee shops in central Appalachia, provide high-quality freshly roasted coffee and now EXPANDING! Without the support of these shops and your support online we wouldn’t be where we are today. Every cup of coffee that you drink at your local coffee shop and every pound of coffee we ship matters and we appreciate it more than you know. Our expansion project is almost complete and we CANNOT WAIT. At this location, we will produce quality products, host special events around music, art and coffee. We will expand our cold brew coffee offerings and hope to have curbside pickup and delivery available in the future! Stay tuned for more updates and progress pictures.
New Product Offerings
We are excited to expand our offerings. Payton and I sat on my back porch and roasted nearly 30 different varieties of coffee and chose the Ethiopia and Kenya coffee. The Ethiopia coffee was unlike anything we had tried before. Notes of blueberries, raspberries, lemon and chocolate. What’s not to love?! You can expect more coffee varieties in 2021, because we are always trying new things!
This year, a lot of our customers bought coffee as an act of kindness for others which may have been the best gift of 2020. As a result, we listened and added “thank you” and “miss you” postcards. This is a great way to show someone that you’re thinking of them. At checkout, you can leave a handwritten message and our team personally writes all of them! This project has brought our mission to a new level!
Use code ‘LATER2020’ for 20% OFF orders over $30 until Jan 31
Ryan and Payton sample roasting 30 different varieties of coffee
#TogetherKY Coffee
We launched #TogetherKY coffee that supports families that have been affected by COVID-19. Our mission is to do good things and this coffee was a small way of us supporting those in our communities. We will be continuing this effort into 2021.
Lincoln Road Coffee Lounge - Norton, VA
Launching a new business in the middle of a pandemic was a bit scary, but y’all showed up and we felt your support. It has been great to finally welcome you to the coffee lounge in downtown Norton. With your help, we shattered our goals and are grateful for all of the positive reviews, tags on Instagram and the helpful feedback. Our desire is to see the lounge shaped by the community. This lounge is truly just the beginning.
Lincoln Road was founded in Southwest Virginia as a cold brew coffee company. It’s amazing how far we’ve come since the days of selling cold brew out of mason jars and out of the coffee trailer at events. Our vision has always been to launch a physical location in Southwest Virginia and never lose sight of our roots. This community has supported us from day one so we are thrilled to give back. We have an amazing team at this location, and everyone cares about doing good for the community we serve. I can’t say enough good things about our managing partner, Blake Slayer, who has been supporting Lincoln Road since the early days. We were glad to bring him on as a partner this year and couldn’t have grown without him!!
https://lincolnroad.coffee/lincolnroadcoffeeloungenorton
Faith Life Market
Faith Life Market opened their doors in downtown Pikeville on division street this year. This is a ministry that we care a lot about and so glad that we can continue to support it. Jared Arnett and his team are doing so many good things for our community through this ministry that you may not even know about.
We sold and moved all of our equipment from our coffee shop in Pikeville to their location and helped them get going! It's so good to see our community come out and support this awesome ministry. Each cup of coffee or bag of #FaithLife coffee goes to support a need in our community. Faith Life Market has thrift items, handmade crafts, books, gifts, WIFI and Lincoln Road coffee! They’re working to inspire and equip people to live out their faith in Jesus Christ with purpose. You can plan on us continuing to support this mission in 2021!
https://www.faithlifemarket.com/
FUN
We have had a blast this year roasting coffee and fulfilling orders from all over the country. Typically, when we roast, we’re listening to some really good tunes, sometimes dancing (only when I’m alone haha) and always enjoying every second of growing this dream. Good tunes are essential to a good roast. We can’t wait to share more fun in our new space in 2021!
Our team is very grateful for the opportunities that were presented to us this year and hope that we can continue to serve our communities and make an impact. Here's to drinking good coffee and doing good things! Cheers everyone!
Happy New Year!
Ryan Jones, Co-Owner and Co-Founder
#DoGoodThings