About Dark moon
Dark Moon Coffee Roasters was created from the passion of roasting coffee and striving to make the next cup of coffee better than the last. We are a local born & raised family owned business in Henderson, NV.
Here at Dark Moon, we are all about the details. We used this concept from the buildout of our roaster/café, to the coffee we decide to purchase & offer. All of our coffee is roasted on a Loring S15 where we roast each coffee differently to bring out its full potential. Every single coffee that we bring in, gets cupped & evaluated many times before we decide to roll it out.
Dark Moon also specializes in cold brew, where most places don’t spend time on their cold brew as they do in other aspects of their cafe, we have a dedicated approach to each and every cold brew batch we do. We are proud of our cold brew and always have our blend on nitro & still, but also rotate our single origin coffees on a separate line so you can experience those coffees as cold brew.
With Dark Moon being dedicated to the details, we make sure to pair our coffee with ingredients that elevate everything we serve. From crafting our Madagascar vanilla bean & salted caramel syrups in-house, to using the best milk we can get in Henderson (Clover Sonoma Organic Milk), we do everything we can for our beverages to be the absolute best.
We also love beer, with that being said we rotate 4 beers on tap and a variety in cans from local favorites to great breweries from around the country! We enjoy partnering with breweries to elevate their coffee beers & help innovate new ones.
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Check out below for more insight on why we do what we do.
Modbar espresso AV
We went with Modbar for our espresso machine for a lot of different reasons, one of the main factors was its underbar technology. This gave us the ability when designing our coffee bar to showcase everything we do. Similar to a cocktail bar experience, you can follow along the process of us crafting your favorite espresso based drink.
Loring S15 Falcon
We used to roast on a Diedrich IR-12, but once we saw that this was available, we jumped on this roaster. Our decision to upgrade to this Loring S-15 was a plan for now & the future. One of the huge benefits of roasting on the Loring is the fact that our coffee peaks in taste for a longer period of time. This roaster roasts using more convective heat to roast the beans more evenly that its counterparts.
Vacuum Seal / Deep Freeze
We have also implemented a vacuum seal/deep freeze program for our single origin pour overs & espresso. Meaning you can always get any coffee we have available as a pour over or espresso. This program helps with particle size, static and consistency with serving the perfect cup every everytime . This method has allowed us to have less weekly waste as once we seal/freeze our coffee it will lock in that peak freshness for months to come.
Beer
We offer the best beer we can source from our local breweries in addition to some of our favorites across the country. We have 4 dedicated draft beer lines that are rotated often and feature limited cans. With serving beer, we also strive to parter with many local breweries to do collaborations, some of the most recent ones include Able Baker, Lovelady & Crafthaus. Check out our Beer Collaboration page to learn more.
Cold Brew
In addition to slinging awesome coffee from our roaster, we focus on making the best cold brew we can. Small batch & taste testing along the process has given us the ability to make the best cold brew we can. Each coffee is unique so we treat each coffee that we cold brew unique, but using a different grind size or ratio to develop the best tasting cold brew each and every time.
shoutout to these great products we partner with
Clover Sonoma organic milk
We only use the best milk to pair with your coffee. We taste tested all of the milk in town that we could use for the shop & Clover Sonoma came out on top, no sacrificing quality.
Minor Figures & Pacific Foods
Our alternative milks give non-milk drinkers the option to enjoy our milk based drinks with their choice of oat or almond milk. We use Minor Figures for oat milk and Pacific Foods for our Almond Milk.
Soul Chai
Soul Chai is based out of Portland, Oregon. After trying many different chai teas, we decided to go with Soul Chai! We custom batch this chai to have the perfect amount of sweetness & spice!
Art of tea
We have partnered with Art of Tea since we opened. Their varieties of tea gave us the ability to feature 6 of their loose leaf hot teas and 3 of their loose leaf iced teas. All of our hot teas are made to order, we do all the work for you so when you get your drink you don’t have to do a thing but enjoy it.
