The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab

The Crown is Royal Coffee's education and tasting room in Uptown Oakland, offering guided coffee flights, in-person classes on brewing science, and hands-on roast lab sessions where students work alongside professional roasters to understand how heat curves, development time, and origin characteristics produce radically different cups. Tasting flights run $12 per flight and cover espresso, hot brew, and cold brew using green coffees sourced directly by the Royal buying team from farms across Ethiopia, Colombia, and Guatemala. Detailed class events are bookable through their online events calendar.