We were a mobile coffee bar, but we opened a brick & mortar in Salida, CO!! Find us at Compact HQ: 129 W 3rd St, Alley Door, Salida, CO 81201. You can still hire us to work on your machines, book a class, or join our coffee refill program!

We don’t cater as much as we used to, but we will still serve small events inside or outside.

We now cater by hosting at our brick & mortar Compact HQ! Send us an email at hq@compactcoffee.co with your event details.

Off-site? No problem, we can cater coffee by the gallon.

Compact HQ is at 129 W 3rd St, Salida, CO 81201 in downtown Salida. Find us in the alley by looking for the door with the purple trim. Follow us on social media or sign up for email updates on the website to stay in touch as we host roaster cuppings, workshops, and more!

You can register for a class here! Don’t see a date that works for you? We can set up a private class for you and/or your group. Send us an email at hq@compactcoffee.co to request a private class.

Absolutely! If you don’t live in Salida, we’ll travel to your coffee shop and teach behind your own bar. We’ve taught as many as 12 baristas at one time. Inquire at hq@compactcoffee.co

An hour and a half, but plan for two hours if you want to stick around to chat & drink all the coffees you practiced making.

Not at all! We welcome all home baristas and coffee lovers alike. It’s a lot of fun for us to teach beginners too.

Nope, but feel free to bring your own equipment if you’d like! Our shop also sells the pitchers and other barista items you may find useful to take back home to use.

We do not! We showcase a new roaster once a month. We always sample a roaster’s current offerings before we choose a single origin to bring into our refill program for the following month. It’s the best part of our job is to pick coffee for you all!

Yes! Just send us a text at 719-626-1372 and we’ll bring you a refill.

Yep! We offer pick-ups at our Compact HQ location in Salida, CO at 129 W 3rd St via Alley Box!

We’re part-timers. We spend about 2-3 months per year traveling in our van total.

Yes! You can check it out here. I doubt I even know how to log in anymore, but hey - you can follow us and find out if we ever post on there again.

Yes, we did! We built our cart in early 2018 and finished building out our van in 2020. We’ve actually had multiple carts and we’ve rebuilt the same van three times!

Yes and no! We opened Compact HQ which is technically not a full coffee shop, but it is also a tech & training bar where we’ll have limited hours where you can come hang out & sip on a coffee while shopping for home barista & van life things! More to come on that.