A better cup of coffee
Smoky Hollow Roaster’s Dale Inghram with his industrial size roaster. Photo A really good cup of coffee changed Dale Inghram’s life. Inghram was a voiceover performer who had risen to doing Super Bowl commercials and being the voice of the Bravo Network, and… well, let’s let him tell it. “One of the great things about voiceover work is that there’s a lot of free time, and I spent some that time in coffee shops. I fell in love with coffee like the ones at Above Average Coffee, with the whole environment and experience. One day I was having a cup in in Blue Butterfly Coffee Shop on Main Street, which is five blocks from my house, and I thought, I wonder if they’d sell this place. I asked the owner, and she replied, ‘I put it up for sale last week.’ I talked with my wife and said, if we’re going to have a coffee shop, this is where we’re going to do it. She agreed and all of a sudden we owned a coffee shop.” The first days didn’t go smoothly. “The first day we owned it, the refrigerator broke. For the successive seven weekends, something major broke and we bought a new commercial espresso machine. There was a lot of trial by fire, fixed by trial and error. I started researching…
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