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This Newport News coffee shop is going back to the basics

Coffee in today's world is more milk and sugar than the good stuff. So Canvas Coffee in Newport News is now trying to return to the basics.

How to make better coffee, according to Hampton Roads experts

Canvas Coffee Roasters Applies the Finishing Touches in Newport News, VA

Canvas Coffee Roasters Co-Founder Alex Hoyes at a 10-kilo Mill City Roaster in Newport News, Virginia. All images courtesy of Canvas Coffee Roasters. From the relatively new Canvas Coffee House in Newport News, Virginia, comes an even newer specialty coffee micro-roaster called Canvas Coffee Roasters. The roasting operation found its start about a year after Canvas founders Daniel Haskett and Alex Hoyes opened the Canvas cafe in 2019. The duo went back to the easel, so to speak, creating a new vision for the business in broad strokes. “We weren’t entirely sure whether we would become coffee roasters, however we knew this was a great opportunity to explore,” Alex Hoyes told Daily Coffee News. “With a degree in biology and an elevated sense of coffee quality, coffee roasting was an outlet for utilizing both my creative and science background.”

A third-wave coffee revolution is brewing in Hampton Roads. Here's the new crop.

A new surge of “third wave” specialty roasters and multi-roaster cafes marks a sea change in local coffee culture not only in Norfolk, but in Chesapeake and Virginia Beach and Newport News and Williamsburg.

A third-wave coffee revolution is brewing in Hampton Roads. Here's the new crop.