madcap coffee sold on a Nitro Cold Brew Tricycle

A Florida Man serves madcap coffee from his Nitro-Cold-Brew-Coffee-Tricycle

A website review.

Even though it’s spring in the Northern Hemisphere, for most of us it hasn't gotten warm enough yet to even consider ice coffee, cold brew, or whatever else your chilled caffeinated beverage of choice is. But in Florida, it’s always cold-drink season. Joel Davis of Commune + Co., in Tampa Florida, is spreading his love of cold coffee thanks to his bike keg, where he serves up pressure-brewed ice coffee from a nitro tap.

What is this “pressure-brewed ice coffee” business? As the Commune + Co. site states, “the last thing that sounds appealing on a humid, blazing, Florida afternoon is a traditional cold brew coffee that gives you an over-caffeinated, flat, concentrate and leaves you feeling like you just drank 12 ounces of maple syrup.”

The coffee itself comes from Madcap Coffee Roasters and Ruby Coffee Roasters, two well-regarded American specialty coffee companies based in Grand Rapids, Michigan and rural central Wisconsin, respectively. For Commune + Co, the bike is only the first step for the business. 

Commune + Co. isn't the first to put their coffee business on wheels, there are oodles of examples of bike and coffee setups around the country. You may question, why are bikes and coffee such a great bundle? The two “seem to be a great, natural pair,” says Davis. “As much as we’re coffee nerds, we love people. So the trike really does give us the ability to connect with people in the most unique spaces.”

It's unfortunate, I can't say much for the coffee, since I haven't actually tasted it, but I do give Commune + Co. an A+ for their creative approach to coffee and their business.

So the next time your in Tampa Florida, maybe you can get your Madcap coffee served as a "pressure-brewed" from a tricycle. That's pretty cool.

A quick glimpse of the Commune Coffee Trike in action at Schiller's Design & Architectural Salvage in Tampa, Fl.