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After linking to this story in morning news about the old, beautiful, toxic Rainier brewery that Tully’s shares with a bunch of artists, Tully’s spokesman Scott Earle wanted to reiterate that Tully’s coffee isn’t roasted in a contaminated old building—that’s simply where they keep their employees. Their coffee is roasted at a new, non-toxic facility in Sumner, Washington.
There you have it.
I’m not a strict preservationist but that R should have been landmarked. Still kind of mad about it.
You know, if we legalized MJ in this state, the employees could be toasted.
Not sure what that would do to the quality of Tully’s coffee, but it would save our state tons of tax dollars.
@1 – you mean the one up at the Red Door in Fremont?
oh, cool, so just the employees are gunna get cancer. phew!
It’ll be a shame to have to bulldoze the landmark. I hope they let the employees know ahead of time.
Toxic or not, Tully’s still tastes like crap.
Well they used to roast coffee in this facility — I saw them do it several years ago.
I think Tully’s coffee tastes just fine. Their drip brewed coffee is much better than S*bucks. And I haven’t been hassled about my gun either.
Tully’s dumpster = free coffee for life
So why does the R Brewery building smell so strongly of roasting coffee on some days? One can smell it from up on Beacon Hill.
I know for a fact that they roasted, ground, and packed coffee there as recently as the fall of 2007, when I worked in the building for several months. While pregnant. Should I be contemplating a lawsuit?
@9 oh good point, i totally forgot that whenever I drive by there on my way home (in the summer) you can totally smell the coffee roasting
I’ve worked there and know they roasted coffee on the upper top floor of the building. I worked there as a temp packaging and stickering boxes. I recall one packing room had a large tank that had a plastic wrap around it, alerting to an asbestos caution. (I supposed I assumed wrongly that humans would not let other humans work in an unsafe environment.) I do recall the packaging manager and workers being such assholes to the temps and firing them for minor breaches. Maybe I wasn’t so lucky staying around there so long…? If I did get asbestoed, what does a person do, or how do they find out…my breathing does seem odd lately…? Am I going to die?