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Volume 1, Number 6
Shining a Positive Light on Coshocton County
July 17 to July 30, 2008
F.R.E.T.S. Roasting Company By Jan Myers
Alexis (age 13) and Madison (age 12) Speicher perform at F.R.E.T.S. Roasting Company on Saturday evening. They are the daughters of Doug and Angie Speicher of Coshocton.
Guitar players Gary Baker and Jason Pendola say they felt led to open the coffee house—FRETS. “Gary and I took a trip to a concert and started talking about music,” said Pendola. “We discovered we both had a dream of starting something like this.” For Baker that dream seed was planted at a songwriters’ conference in Colorado. “I was talking with some folks about some sings I’d written,” said Baker. “They said ‘those are the kind
of songs you sing at a coffee house’. I thought about that vacant building I had beneath Baker’s Management Offices (where the Linn Buffet had been) and thought that might make a great coffee house and suggested that to Jason.” Pendola and Baker began recruiting friends to help. Pendola remodeled the building and donated the sound equipment. “Doug Speicher and I put together the sound system,” said Pendola. “I wanted it to be something
that was modern and state-of-the-art. It has a high quality sound even at a low volume, so listeners can enjoy their coffee and talk while listening.” Baker says he wanted to find ways to incorporate coffee with music. He began searching the internet for songs that had references to coffee. You’ll find many of these quotes painted on the walls inside FRETS. The name itself was also an effort to incorporate the music and the coffee. “We wanted a
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word that had something to do with the guitar,” explained Baker. “We came up with FRETS since that is a guitar part, and then wanted to have the letters say something more about the place. The ‘F’ stands for Friends, ‘R’ for Refuge, ‘E’ for Espresso and the ‘T’ for Tunes.” Baker purchased the coffee equipment and orders the coffee from the Alliance World Coffee Company in Munsee, Indiana. The Alliance Company is actually a coffee ministry. They purchase coffee beans from all over the world from fairly- traded sources, usually small collectives of farmers in developing countries. “We buy four different kinds of coffee from Alliance World Coffee,” said Baker. “It’s is so nice to know where our coffee is coming from and that the money is going to a good cause. The Alliance Company employs seminary students in the Munsee area to roast the beans.” “We also know the coffee is fresh,” continued Baker. “We order it on a Monday, it’s roasted on Tuesday and we brew it on Friday or Saturday night.” Baker says that setting the grind involves quite a science, since there is an optimum time of 25 seconds for the shot (of ground coffee) to come out of the machine. If it grinds too long or too short of time, the coffee will be bitter. Along with espresso, coffees, and other hot drinks, the FRETS Roasting Company also serves frozen lattes, iced coffee, frozen mocha lattes, smoothies and decaf coffees. Currently, FRETS Roasting Company is open on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month from 7:00 p.m.
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