Archive: News

Let’s talk coffee grind size!

Being part of my coffee friends' and fans’ coffee journey is one of the best parts of my career. I like to think that at COROCO we make specialty coffee accessible for everyone. So when a customer called with a ...

Meet Kylee!

Born and raised in Cortland, Illinois since day one. She spent most of her days roaming around between Cortland, DeKalb, and Sycamore with her friends; being dumb teens trying to make something of themselves in the middle of corn country. ...

Meet Karen!

Karen Weckerly, Founder and CEO of COROCO Coffee Roaster Collective, had an unconventional start in coffee. Trained as a professional violinist from the age of two, she performed and taught professionally for a number of years. Happily married to Ryan ...

Behind The Scenes: Roast Development at COROCO

COROCO® is proud to roast all of the coffee we sell in store and online in-house in Sycamore, IL. Some of your favorites might be: Diner Coffee blends, Cask'd wine & spirit infused Coffee, and Hi! Hope single origin coffees. ...

DIY Coffee Bar at Home

Hi Coffee Friends! We have been talking a great deal about focusing on the good and happy things around us in the world lately, looking for silver linings and such. Rather than focus on what options are more limited, we can ...

When Coffee & Chocolate Meet

A Guest Blog By Chef Rudy Galindo This week, we’re so excited to have Chef Rudy Galindo join us as our Guest Blogger! Chef Rudy has been a local, private chef in Northern Illinois since 2015, and is a 2002 graduate ...

Coffee For Good

“Study after study has confirmed that there is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole—women and men alike— than one which involves women as central players. No other policy is as likely to raise economic productivity, lower ...

Diner Coffee Backstory

Hi Friends!  We thought that it would be fun to share a little of the backstory to some of our coffee brands, since we don’t always get a chance to visit with each other these days. First up, is Ryan and ...

DIY French Press Cold Brew

Cold brew coffee is great — it has all the caffeinating and cooling properties of an iced coffee, but it's brewed without any heat. Coffee grounds are soaked in cool water for several hours at a time to extract the ...