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Hi, I’m Payton

I make coffee for a living and write about it after close.

Two years behind the bar at Black Rifle Coffee Company. Before that, a childhood spent moving. Germany, Idaho, Utah, on and off base. When you move that much you get good at reading a room fast, and that’s most of this job. I’m at Weber State now, and when I’m not on bar I’m writing, reading, gaming, or at the range.