October 23, 2026 – PRESSADVANTAGE –
Lost Coffee, a family-owned specialty coffee roaster and café company, has introduced its fall drink menu and a rotating lineup of single-origin coffees for pour-over brewing at its six cafés in the Denver metro area. The launch comes as industry coverage points to spiced seasonal flavors, slow-brewed single origins, and year-round cold coffee as defining trends for the 2026 season.
According to an August 10, 2026 report by the trade publication Comunicaffe International, ingredients such as pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla return each autumn as roasters and coffee shops introduce seasonal ranges. The publication also reported that demand for slow extraction methods, including pour-over, Chemex, V60, French press, and AeroPress, rises as temperatures drop, since those methods allow the aromatic complexity of single-origin coffees to come through.
Seasonal demand is not limited to hot drinks. A September 23, 2026 QSR Media report summarizing Nestlé research on café trends identified cold coffee as an increasingly year-round category, noting that 60 percent of past-day specialty coffee drinkers in the United States had consumed a cold specialty coffee in the previous week, an increase of six percentage points from the prior year. The same report found that premium coffee is increasingly tied to local, seasonal, and sourcing-focused stories.
Lost Coffee’s fall menu adds two seasonal drinks built around those autumn flavors. The Pumpkin Jack is made with a locally sourced pumpkin pie syrup and cinnamon, and the Amber Moon pairs a housemade maple syrup with a toasted marshmallow. The cafés’ standing flavor options of vanilla, caramel, mocha, honey, and simple syrup remain available alongside the seasonal drinks.
Alongside the fall menu, Lost Coffee is featuring its current single-origin coffees as pour-overs in its cafés. SJ Heirloom is a natural-process coffee from Finca San Jose in Risaralda, Colombia, with tasting notes of jasmine, pomegranate, and bergamot. Ibisi Mountain is a fully washed Red Bourbon from the Ibisi Mountain Washing Station in Nyamagabe, Rwanda, with notes of blueberry, chocolate pastry, and peach. Tirra Tarrazú is a natural-process coffee from the CoopeTarrazú cooperative in Costa Rica, with notes of strawberry, peach, and vanilla.
For customers who brew pour-over at home, the same single-origin coffees are available by the bag through the company’s online shop, which ships nationally. Lost Coffee roasts to order rather than holding warehouse inventory, and the company said bags leave its Colorado roastery within 48 hours of roasting. Its green coffee is sourced through a partnership with Onyx Green Coffee from farms the company identifies by name.
“Fall is when people slow down with their coffee, so it is the right time to put our single origins in front of guests as pour-overs,” said Scott Gaerte, CEO of Lost Coffee. “The coffees from Colombia, Rwanda, and Costa Rica each bring a very different cup, and a pour-over lets guests taste those differences side by side. The Pumpkin Jack and Amber Moon are built on the same coffee we roast every week, so whether someone orders a slow pour-over or a seasonal drink, the goal is a cup that tastes like the season.”
Lost Coffee was founded in 2010 by Scott Gaerte. The family-owned company roasts specialty coffee in small batches in Colorado and operates six cafés in Castle Rock, Aurora, Littleton, Highlands Ranch, and Arvada. In addition to its cafés, Lost Coffee offers flexible coffee subscriptions, single-bag sales with national shipping, coffee equipment, and wholesale coffee for local businesses.
More information is available at Lost Coffee.
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For more information about Lost Coffee – Aurora, contact the company here:
Lost Coffee – Aurora
Scott Gaerte
(303) 955-5701
media@lostcoffee.com
2100 N Ursula St #30, Aurora, CO 80045
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