Sweet Bloom Coffee in Lakewood wins top coffee prize

Esteban L. Hernandez,
Megan Stringer

Group of men in jackets observe a coffee roasting machine as a staff member adjusts the roast; brown coffee beans roast in a large industrial setup. — Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters owner Andy Sprenger (right) examines coffee beans inside his company's Lakewood headquarters in 2014. Photo: Kathryn Scott Osler/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Coloradans won't need to travel far along the Front Range to find some of North America's best coffee.

Driving the news: Lakewood-based Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters recently earned the top prize at the Global Coffee Awards, winning Best Roaster in the U.S. and Canada, plus a gold and a silver in two additional categories.

"We don't take any of it for granted," the company said in a statement.

How it works: Two days of double-blind judging took place in Houston in August, pitting roasters in the U.S. and Canada against each other.

If you go: Sweet Bloom has three locations in metro Denver, including its flagship Lakewood shop, along with storefronts in Arvada and Westminster.

A fourth location is in the works in Golden.

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