The Canadian Roasting Society: At the crossroads of Montreal's coffee culture [Watch]

There's vibrant and thriving community brewing in the CRS, a unique place to engage with coffee in ways you can’t find elsewhere in the city (or Canada).

J.P. Karwacki

December 8, 2023- Read time: 6 min

Andrew Kyres of the Canadian Roasting Society. | Photograph: Supplied

Few Montrealers’ passion for coffee can hold a candle to Andrew Kyres of the Sud-Ouest’s Canadian Roasting Society (CRS).

Sure, he'll tell you that his passion will ebb and flow, but it’s never burnt out through his two decades-long relationship with it, from working in chain cafés in early Oughts to running a preeminent space for all things coffee.

“You know how people get pursuits that are endless in terms of how you can finesse them like a skill? Coffee’s that for me, with so much new information that’s coming out all the time, new things to play and practice with.”

“There’s still so much that we don’t know about it. There are thousands of compounds flowing in there—you could study it forever. There are ceremonies to experience it and create more memorable experiences to it.”

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