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Spotlight on Pure Delight coffee beans

Niklas Isaac is a coffee connoisseur. Before landing in the Capital City a year ago, he lived in New Orleans, playing jazz guitar, and in Denver, Colorado.

“I’ve been making coffee all along the way,” Isaac says.

In January, Isaac started purchasing sustainable, specialty grade coffee beans and roasting them, selling the beans under the moniker Pure Delight.

“Coffee is graded on a 100-point scale,” he says. “We don’t buy coffee that is graded any lower than an 80. We buy the nicest coffee we can get our hands on. I pride myself on knowing the back-story of these beans, too, knowing where and how it is processed. I only buy it that way.”

For Isaac, this is all about doing what he loves. His entire family loves coffee. His first job was as a barista. Until now, his main jobs have been serving up cups of joe wherever he’s lived.

“About a year ago, I decided I wanted to learn how to roast and got further into researching it,” he says. “Even when I was 14 or 15 years old, I loved hanging out in coffee shops. It’s one of my favorite places to be. I thought being a barista was a dream job. I just really got into it.”

So far, Isaac’s Pure Delight has been available by a bicycle delivery system around the Capital Heights and Mid City areas. Interested coffee drinkers can purchase a bag through puredelightcoffee.com, and they will get their bag the next day, he says. Pure Delight also ships anywhere in the U.S. Recently, Isaac obtained his first wholesale account with Lagniappe Records, which is serving Pure Delight’s French press coffee at the record store’s new location at 705 St. Joseph St.