Golden Line Coffee Bar

“It very much quickens the Spirits, and makes the Heart Lightsome”

“It supresseth Fumes exceedingly, and therefore good against the Head-ach”

Ole Pasqua took a few liberties in describing the benefits of coffee…but he captures the essence!

The history of coffee and the coffeehouse is fascinating.

Pasqua Rosee, a Greek/Turkish immigrant, opened London’s first coffeehouse in 1652, serving a drink that had become popular in the Middle East, but was unknown to most of Western Europe. It quickly was a hit. Coffeehouses would go on to transform society, and were likely a key factor in the Enlightenment.

You can still visit the space. It’s a wine bar now. We have yet to, but it’s certainly on our bucket list.

Very stoked to announce we will have pastries from at our popup this Sunday! If you have not experienced Chef Efe’s modern interpretation of traditional Mediterranean cuisine, we highly recommend you do so! He does weekly “street food” pop-ups at Draughstmen every Wednesday evening, and his “Sofra” chef’s table tasting dinners have received much acclaim recently.

And if that weren’t enough, we will also once again have pastries! Last week’s batch sold out around 9:30 am, so come early!

Golden Line Pop-up Espresso Bar @ Draughtsmen Brewery
53 Santa Felicia Dr, Goleta, CA 93117
Sunday Aug 11
8:30am to 2pm
Pastries by and
Also in the house both days:
/ 11am-3pm
*Live music at the back patio starts at 2pm
*Beers all day 🍻 Breakfast beers encouraged!

Ready to serve with mvp !

Golden Line Pop-up Espresso Bar @ Draughtsmen Brewery
53 Santa Felicia Dr, Goleta, CA 93117
Sunday Aug 4 & 11
8am to 2pm
August 4: Pastries by
August 11: Pastries by
Also in the house both days:
/ 11am-3pm
*Live music at the back patio starts at 2pm
*Beers all day 🍻 Breakfast beers encouraged!

We are getting really pumped for this daytime party at Draughtsmen on Sunday! Thrilled to say we will have pastries from none other than !!

Get there early, as these beauties tend to go quickly wherever they are!

Golden Line Pop-up Espresso Bar @ Draughtsmen Brewery
53 Santa Felicia Dr, Goleta, CA 93117
Sunday Aug 4 & 11
8am to 2pm
August 4: Pastries by
August 11: Pastries by
Also in the house both days:
/ 11am-3pm
*Live music at the back patio starts at 2pm
*Beers all day 🍻 Breakfast beers encouraged!

Draughtsmen Goleta is one of our favorite places to hang. The vibrations are cosmic, it is a locals’ spot with lots of regulars, the beers are among the best around, and the owners are fantastic people. This is just the kind of business we look for in our partners: genuine, independent, fiercely committed to quality, community, and ethical practices.

Golden Line Pop-up Espresso Bar
Sunday Aug 4 & 11
8am to 2pm
Also in the house:
/ 11am-3pm
*Live music at the back patio starts at 2pm
*Beers will be flowing all day 🍻 Breakfast beers anyone??

Cheers, happy Labor Day, from the one and only (and air-conditioned) Harry’s Bar 🥂

Incredible weekend in Napa. May do a post on all the epic food and drinks but wanted to first point out the excellent Naysayer Coffee, a former popup now with their own space at the very cool Food City complex just south of downtown.

Chris was thoroughly impressed with all four of the coffees he had over the course of the weekend, especially the naturally processed Costa Rica pour over 👌

Also make sure to visit the somewhat related Contimo for ethereal breakfast biscuits and many other excellent provisions. One convo with Ryan and Chris could clearly see his passion/obsession with quality and sustainability. You can feel good about anything you order here. Can’t wait to go back.

Super fun coffee tour of Oakland during our Bay Area trip this week!

Finally got to check out Royal Coffee’s tasting lab, The Crown. It is not to be missed for coffee nerds. One of the finest espresso shots Chris has ever had.

Our head is still spinning from the mind-blowing selection of roasters at Ain’t Normal.

Closed out at the High Wire at Rockridge Market Hall. What an operation. Bag art always on point too. We were pretty buzzed by then 😵‍💫

Great to be back in oaktown 💚💛

…also, we’ll be putting in our final coffee order Monday morning so if you’d like any retail bags from excellent .coffee send us a Direct Message or come to the shop today and let us know! We’ll have it for you next weekend!

See photos for the offerings!

We are inside through July 31, then closing down for now.

If you missed our post about this last week please check it out!

The response from our customers and this community has been overwhelming and so incredibly appreciated 🙏 It’s starting to sink in and Chris is getting sad but trying to keep his eyes dry enough to pull excellent shots of espresso til the end ✨

Come see us this weekend and next!

Definition (lowercase “c”):

1. association; fellowship.

2. the sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts and feelings, especially when the exchange is on a mental or spiritual level.

3. the act of sharing, or holding in common; participation.

The goal here is to create a space for elevated social interaction (communion with others), and/or, for introspection, self-reflection, self-exploration (communion with self). The first two pillars are very much a part of this.

The crew at is getting us started with some proper coffee before our wine excursion.

Thanks, guys, the cortado was superb, bummed to miss Skyler and Alyce but hope they’re enjoying a well-deserved day off!

Though we are closed this weekend, we still pursue the Golden Line ✨

William James has some incredible things to say about ideals and spiritual pursuit. While enjoying a cup of Dark Duro, we came across this passage that has our vibrations humming:

“The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely “understandable” world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.”

“Yet the unseen region in question is not merely ideal, for it produces effects in this world. When we commune with it, work is actually done upon our finite personality, for we are turned into new men, and consequences in the way of conduct follow in the natural world upon our regenerative change.”

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Just a reminder…see you next weekend! 🙏

We never take the decision to close the shop lightly, but Ash and Chris are taking some R&R next week!

Apologies for any convenience. We will be back better than ever June 11!

❤️❤️

Feeling this bigtime

Espresso may be a trifle to some, but to those who love it, and to those who have chosen it as a trade, it can be an ocean of complexity and volatility. Rewarding at times, damn frustrating at others.

When we’re pulling shots we think we have things right. But we are not experts. And the human palate is subjective, not to mention prone to large swings of consistency and reliability…

So please, give us feedback! Good or bad! If someone were to say to Chris, “I think this espresso is a bit over-extracted”, not only would he make you another drink on us, but he would probably fall over himself from getting such specific and constructive feedback!

…and finally…we had a cat-customer yesterday.

Enough said.

Fun stuff on the bar this week!
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Sundays at Golden Line have become pretty epic in our eyes. While we love our vibrant Saturdays, Sundays have been taking on a more relaxed and unique vibe of their own. Longer form convos with our customers and friends around the bar, intermingling, song requests…

Recent topics of discussion include coffee, beer, restaurants, travel, philosophy, American roots music, psychedelics, nutrition, light-roast espresso, the outdoors, movies, podcasts, cryptocurrency, single malt whiskey, bikes, what the italian term aperitivo means, and many others that have spontaneously arisen!

In short, the cosmicity has been flowing and we couldn’t be more stoked about it!

Join us Sundays, introduce yourself! We’re inside 7:30am - 2pm!

India is another country from which we don’t see many offerings in the specialty coffee world. We hope this is changing. This experimental, anaerobically fermented coffee has a very unique taste profile: we get earthy sweetness, kind of a Milky Way candy bar or tiramisu situation! And we love the story of this coffee and its region.

In 2000 a non-profit group called Naandi Foundation intervened in Araku, a remote region of Southern India, beginning a process that has transformed an area suffering from low biodiversity, abysmally low literacy levels, high infant and maternal mortality rates and unrest in the form of a violent insurgency movement, into one of the world’s largest, certified organic, fairtrade, 100% Arabica coffee plantations.

Along with coffee, farmers in Araku have planted over 30 million trees of 22 different species so far. In their own words: “Today in Araku, both ecological and financial poverty is a thing of the past.” Incredible.

This coffee was auctioned, resulting in a higher price paid per pound. We love working with .coffee because of coffees like this.

And another big Happy Mother’s Day to the universe’s best pet-mom. Chewie and Watson (and I) really hit the life lottery. Love you, sweetheart 😗

Big Happy Mother’s Day to my powerful mom, who instilled in us a thing or two about livin’ with principles. ❤️

-Chris

The “Golden Line” is an inspirational force that periodically visits, or can be tapped into, by anyone. It can be described as a state of flow, a divine consciousness, or simply a sense of being on the right track. It is available anytime in the right state of mind.

In this photo, taken a while back at a beloved coffee shop in our old neighborhood in San Francisco (shoutout !), while Chris doesn’t remember specifically what was on his mind, we can see by the look in his eyes he was tapping into the Golden Line ✨

You know it when it happens. Your best ideas, your best conversations, your best work, all occur at these times. We endeavor to create a space for such moments!

Come see us inside Saturdays and Sundays 7:30am-2pm!

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Bio-Innovation Process!?

This super unique coffee comes to us from La Palma y El Tucan farm in Colombia. Through the Bio-Innovation process, the producers utilize the main principles of organic farming, first capturing and reproducing microorganisms found on their farm to create their own fermentation substrate. They then add this substrate to their coffee cherries and place them in sealed tanks for 83 hours of anaerobic fermentation, which imparts wild, fruity, almost wine-like characteristics. Fans of our Ethiopian coffees will likely dig this one!

We have a very small amount, so it won’t be here long!

We’re inside Saturdays & Sundays 7:30am - 2pm!
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On the bar today…
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We’re inside Saturdays and Sundays 7:30am to 2pm! 😍

Friends,
We will be closed this (Easter) Sunday. Ash and I have a day off together! We are going to see family and drink someone else’s coffee! See you next weekend! ❤️☕️❤️

Our medium roast on the Pour-Over bar is .coffee Flores Magon.

This organic coffee comes from a town high up in the mountains of northern Oaxaca named after the Mexican revolutionary and journalist Ricardo Flores Magon.

The purchasing of this coffee is a prime example of what Unity is trying to do with their sourcing: establish a long term relationship, with the goal to single out microlots of exceptional quality and pay higher prices to incentivize producers to invest in, and further improve their operations.

We don’t see enough coffee from Mexico, especially Oaxaca, and love being able to offer this gem!

✨We taste creamy milk chocolate, nougat, maybe some marshmallow?!

We’re inside Saturday 7:30-2pm and we will be closed Easter Sunday so come see us today!

We have a few retail bags for sale today! Both of these fantastic coffees are from Ethiopia, but are quite different:

✨Mrs. Gemedech, a Natural-Processed coffee from a woman-owned farm in Yirgacheffe that, through the efforts of .coffee and Crop to Cup receives a higher than usual percentage of the export price (88% of FOB, for the technically inclined). A stunningly delicate and fruity pour-over, with some precision this one can also be brewed as a delightful espresso. Chris loves it as an Americano ☕️👊

✨Dark Duro is toward the other end of the roasting spectrum. Medium/dark, in the sweet spot we love where the roastiness kicks in but the fruity characteristics of Ethiopian terroir are expertly maintained by Adam and his roasting team at Unity.

Both of these coffees are going over very well with our beloved customers ❤️

We’re inside Saturdays & Sundays 7:30am - 2pm. Come see us!