Brown Sugar Coffee Roastery

Storyteller is an independent bookstore and coffee shop on Broadway in Thermopolis, and Jackrabbit Java is the coffee roasted in house behind it. Ellen Reed had been selling coffee and gifts at the bookstore for six years before adding a roaster in 2015. The bookstore and cafe are hers; the roasting side is a family operation she co-owns with her son and roaster Jackson Reed and her son-in-law and roaster Payton Gonzalez. The lineup runs from single origins to signature blends, alongside a huckleberry-flavored coffee, a half caff and a French-roast Robusta, and the roastery has been reviewed by Coffee Review. All retail coffee is sold in 12 oz bags.