David Foster

Meet Co-Owner of Kiln Coffee Bar, David Foster. Foster has lived in the Grand Valley for 3 years and says “My wife and I immediately found Community here.”

 

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Q: What inspired you or led you to your current career?

A: My brother and I have always been into coffee. What kind of got us into coffee was the community aspect – we would always meet with friends in high school at a coffee shop. In college, we started working at coffee shops and the desire/enjoyment of cafes just grew. After college is kind of when we started getting into the more specialty or craft coffee scene. The coffee industry was kind of mimicking what was happening in the beer industry as far as the craft side of things…so we started nerding out on the craft side. It kind of went from just the community piece to falling in love with the whole science of the bean. As our identity has kind of grown and developed, we have remained community focused while sharing that experience and our love for coffee.

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Q: What is your favorite restaurant in The Grand Valley, and what do you love there?

A: Bin 707 – Bin Burger

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Q: How long have you lived or worked in The Grand Valley?

A: 3 years

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Q: Who is the most interesting person you’ve met here in The Grand Valley? 

A: Samuel Baseler. He used to be a teacher at the high school and also helped develop downtown GJ. He always has a big smile on his face and I feel like he loves where he’s at in life as far as his ability to speak wisdom and influence people’s lives. He’s a very fun character to talk to.

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Q: If you could travel anywhere in the world right now, where would it be?  And why?

A: My wife and I are going to Costa Rica in March. We’ll actually be networking with some coffee farms there. We’ve been craving going to a beach!

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Q: What is your favorite movie OR what is the first movie you remember seeing in a theatre?

A: The first movie I saw in a theatre was Star Wars and I remember it being super exciting.

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Q: What advice would you give a crowd of people?

A: Let everybody be themselves apart from ourselves. I feel like so often in our culture we want to define other people by ourselves whether it’s in politics, religion or philosophy. We have not only our own cultural upbringing but different truths that have been handed to us by our family, different things that we’ve experienced in our lives that have negatively impacted us, or maybe positively impacted us, so we see things in a certain way. So often we want to impress those ideas and values onto other people, and it’s not necessarily wrong in the sense of wanting to share those but when you have the expectation that in order to be a solid human being you have to share these values, I think is very ignorant. It’s important to be able to embrace somebody and the fact that they’re not an idiot because they don’t believe the same things as you, they just have different values.

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Q: What is something on your bucket list?

A: Monet’s Garden in Paris

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Q: What is your favorite music / 3 bands you would like to see (dead or alive)?

A: Indy Folk like Mumford & Sons

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Q: What current/former local business makes you the most nostalgic about The Grand Valley? 

A: Brown’s shoe store – oldest shoe store in Colorado

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Q: Choosing any non-relative: with whom would you love to have lunch? Why? Where in The Grand Valley would you have lunch?

A: Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. I would really enjoy taking him to Café Sol.

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Q: What is your favorite thing or something unique about The Grand Valley?

A: My wife and I immediately found Community here. I just feel like people here genuinely have this desire to grow together. Physically speaking, I would say The Mesa. Spending time up on the Mesa is definitely one of the things I enjoy about this area.

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Q: Where do you see yourself in 5 or 10 years?

A: Probably doing the same thing that we’re doing now. My wife is a teacher at GJHS and loves teaching math. Our goal is definitely to continue to grow Kiln Coffee in the Grand Valley. We started out just under 2 and a half years ago now and we just started roasting our own coffee a year ago. Sweet Kiwi is our first wholesale client which happened about 4 months ago. We’re really working on the wholesale side now. So really developing and growing things.

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Q:  What is something interesting that most people don’t know about you?

A: I am obsessed with baseball and I really enjoy fairy folklore.

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Q:  What 3 words or phrases come to mind when you think of the word HOME?

A: People, Rest & Acceptance

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Q:  Who would you like to see nominated for this project, The Faces of The Grand Valley?

A: Samuel Baseler

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Q:   If you were cast into a major motion picture and had your choice of anyone to be your co-star, who would you choose?

A: My wife

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Q:  If you had a full-time staff member that was fully paid for, who would you choose?

Chef, Housekeeper, Driver, Coach, Physical Fitness Trainer or Nanny?

A: Chef

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