Arc'teryx Southport is pleased to invite you to join Erik Engstrom as he demonstrates the best way to make coffee while you hit the trails! Erik will be using a VSSL pour-over set with Metric coffee.

Doors will open at 10am with the clinic beginning at 10:15. Afterwards we will have raffles, small bites, and more coffee!

Location: Arc'teryx Southport

3441 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60657

Date: Sunday June 23, 2024

Time: 10am-11am

Erik: Erik is a commercial photographer and freelance creative director from Chicago. He loves meeting rad people and is a sucker for a good story, whether from the people he meets or the brands with which he works. Traveling the world, Erik specializes in capturing stories in a way that often goes unnoticed by casual viewers. His work has featured clients within the outdoor, hospitality, and specialty coffee industries. Erik enjoys backpacking, canoeing, geeking out over coffee, and sharing the world of specialty coffee with people. He will always take advantage of sharing a cup of coffee and a good story together.

VSSL: VSSL fuels our customers’ passion for leading and exploring. Anchored in developing innovative barista quality coffee equipment, we are obsessed with compact integration, durability, and well-conceived sustainable design. Designed in Canada and Geared for Life.

Metric: Founded in 2013, Metric Coffee is a collaborative effort between Darko Arandjelovic and Xavier Alexander in order to create a shared vision for quality coffee and service. The inspiration behind the name Metric was twofold. We liked that the technical definition of the word, "a system or standard of measurement," is a thread that runs through every aspect of life. We utilize Metrics every day in order to navigate the world around us. Additionally, our 1960s German Probat roaster, the beating heart of our business, came to us with nuts and bolts in Metric units. Refurbishing and customizing this machine from the ground up required us to make conversions and work within a different system from the familiar. Thus it seemed fitting to name our coffee company with the concept of Metric in mind. All of our coffees are roasted on this self-restored '61 Probat UG 15. Working with this vintage, built-to-last machine produces exceptionally well balanced, sweet, and clean coffees. We are thankful to work with our beans on one of these rare and sought after old roasters. For us, it represents the perfect meeting of old world method and modern technology. The story of Metric is still being written. We started with just two people and have grown into a small solid staff united by our common passion. With a growing fleet of fantastic wholesale partners and cafe/training center in full swing, we are constantly growing and eagerly embracing what is next for us and our industry.