CxT Roasting Company - Keller Station

...and when you want something that reminds you why you care about coffee in the first place, there's cxt roasting company on knoxville avenue. they roast their own beans here in peoria, which means you're getting something that didn't spend weeks in transit losing whatever made it special. the people who come back week after week aren't doing it for convenience. this is keller station territory, where strip malls usually house the predictable suspects, but somehow this spot figured out how to do specialty coffee without the usual theatrics. you can tell they know what they're doing because the coffee tastes like coffee, not like someone's idea of what coffee should taste like. the kind of place that makes you realize how much mediocre stuff you've been settling for. grab their house roast black and see what all the quiet loyalty is about.