We’re humbled to have earned rather good merits with a couple key farmers in Japan by being the second shop to ever serve true ceremonial matcha in North Carolina almost five years ago. Since then, and through your generious support, we have grown to be one of the east coast’s premier matcha suppliers. We seriously sell through such a ridicuious amount its forged a genuine passion for the industry deep in our shop’s heart. Quietly while assembling Promethium Reghan and myself begun connecting with Japan and their most respected farmers to take our matcha supply private and continue a genuine cultivation of respect and admiration for the ceremony in the west.
In this monumental matcha moment, where the long beloved discipline is stepping into the limelight, we felt it fitting to host you all for a celebration of matcha at iris.
August 3rd at 11am-1p. We’re bringing our absolute best to the table in a way Raleigh hasn't seen just yet. Come hungry, leave with your mind blown.

We’d like to invite you to a public geisha tasting at iris on November 21st from 6pm-7pm. We’ll be offering a range of traditional geisha’s and auction-based geishas to our community. This event is first come first served through a drop in drop out environment. Please see below for more information:  

The specialty coffee industry is incredibly rich with culture and range of offerings. However our industry often sorts itself into microcosms of subgenres based on local demographic, surrounding industry depth and knowledge. This is what makes coffee culture so incredibly rich and diverse, however not without trade offs. Because of this it is easy to find yourself in a bubble of the local industry which in most cases, can dictate the range of it’s bigger industry that you can experience without travel or other expenditures. We are looking to break down these accidental walls by sharing things not commonly found in our local industry but might be common elsewhere and vise-versa. In this moment, competition and auction style coffee can only be found in different industry climates with more emphasis on home brewing or omokase oriented coffee experiences. It is with great joy we’d like to invite you to a new style of event more in line with these abroad cultures: a public Gesha tasting. We’ll be offering a complimentary gesha tasting with over ten competition grade, auction and private gesha lots from different regions and roasters. We’ll be brewing these in an omakase style fashion for you on November twenty first. This event is public in a drop in drop out environment. We have scheduled this event to begin at 6:00pm in order for those bound by office work to be available as this event is a one off type event as a few of the coffee’s well be showcasing reside in the one-three thousand dollar per kilo price range. We have been planning this for a few months and are incredibly honored to be able to finally serve you in this capacity.

We’d like to invite you to one of our most beloved events, the public cupping - happening on November 12th from 10AM-11AM. This event is complimentary with a drop in drop out style meaning come any time within that hour block. So take your lunch break then or plan accordingly for these cuppings are not the type of thing you want to miss!

For complimentary parking information please visit https://www.iriscoffeelab.com/visit

We’d like to invite any seasoned home brewers and baristas to the most advanced brewing course offered on the east coast.
This two hour course will be an educational and training session covering:
-Water QC + Mineral Infusion
-Roast Analysis
-Quality Control + Sorting
-Brewing at home vs competition
-Advanced refractometry work
-Guest Brewers

We structure our educational courses into a care free friendly environment where mistakes and learning can happen freely. With that said this particular course is aimed at those with more than a season of brewing under their belts who are craving to brew the undisputed best coffee daily. We will be sharing the wealth of our knowledge in this course, for those who crave to summit the current peak of specialty and what fourth-wave coffee has to offer, this course is for you.

We have two ticketed options:
Option #1: Participation (class experience) $35.00
Option #2: Participation + Gear
(Poma Coffee Set, Mineral Infusion Set, April Brewer, 50x sibarist filters, Class experience ) $175.00

Registration Opens Soon

To reserve your spot please visit (link______)

We’d like to invite you to one of our most beloved events, the public cupping - happening on October 1st from 10AM-11AM. This event is complimentary with a drop in drop out style meaning come any time within that hour block. So take your lunch break then or plan accordingly for these cuppings are not the type of thing you want to miss!

For complimentary parking information please visit https://www.iriscoffeelab.com/visit

We’d like to invite you to our biggest and most important event every year at iris: OUR BIRTHDAY! Every year we go all out as it’s our only chance to truly be ourselves serving this city and abroad all day no matter the costs. This is our opportunity to have fun with you and thank you for your loyal patronage regardless of how long or often. We love this city, we love you, and it would be the biggest honor to celebrate with you! So cmon? It’ll be a blast :)

We’ve got: FREE bright spot donuts, custom O:HU pastries, the only time to get some elusive iris merch and even more craziness. We’ve got things planned throughout the day so stop by any time in between 9am-4pm.
SEE. YOU. SUNDAY.
For complimentary parking information please visit https://www.iriscoffeelab.com/visit

We’d like to invite all current home brewers and baristas to our intermediate brewing course.
In this one hour course you will be taken through
-Grinding for extraction
-Filter setting + troubleshooting
-Quality Control
-Differing dripper types
-Coffee region based buying + advanced dialing in
-Open Q/A

We structure our educational courses into a care free friendly environment where mistakes and learning can happen freely. We strongly encourage anyone who is interested in brewing at home to join, yet even those who already have some foundational knowledge can benefit from this course(for more advanced knowledge please visit our Brewing Ultimate course).

Participation (class experience) $38.00
Registration Opens August 31st

To reserve your spot please visit the link below or click the button below

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brewing-basics-intermediate-tickets-1005824727837?aff=oddtdtcreator

We’d like to invite all aspiring home brewers and baristas to our inaugural brewing basics course.
In this one hour course you will be taken through
-Understanding buying coffee
-Differing Brewing mediums
-Grinding coffee + preparing for brewing
-Brewing basics
-Adjusting your brew + foundational dialing in
-Open Q/A

We structure our educational courses into a care free friendly environment where mistakes and learning can happen freely. We strongly encourage anyone who is interested in brewing at home to join, yet even those who already have some foundational knowledge can benefit from this course(for more advanced knowledge please visit our Brewing Intermediate course).
Option #1: Participation (class experience, hands on brewing) $18.00


Registration Opens August 22th

To reserve your spot please visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brewing-basics-beginners-tickets-1000304446527?aff=oddtdtcreator or click the button below:

We’d like to invite you to one of our most beloved events, the public cupping - happening on August 13th from 1pm-2pm. This event is complimentary with a drop in drop out style meaning come any time within that hour block. So take your lunch break then or plan accordingly for these cuppings are not the type of thing you want to miss!

For complimentary parking information please visit https://www.iriscoffeelab.com/visit

There is an artful element to crafting and producing experiences in a sustainable manner. There is not always capacity for our guests to slow down and fully absorb a top-to-bottom beverage experience. This realization has led us to founding a new type of experience altogether: Flavor Development Showcase (FDS). FDS is a structured private experience we’ve built to showcase our pioneering to new depths of flavor development in coffee. An omakase-style experience that we have spent two months sourcing and developing a private menu for your complimentary enjoyment. Registration below is open to you first, then open to the public next month.

Our ambition for this event is to invite other shops the following year for FDS 2025 to send a representative member of their staff with a creation of their own to present to attendees. This collaborative nature bridges gaps between small businesses and shops in the light of sharing in a bigger industry. Invitations will be selected by attendees in the prior year’s event. Take this opportunity to be a part of something never done before in our community and register below.

To register, please visit this link: Flavor Development Showcase
(This event is free, however, there is a no-show fee for failure to provide a twenty-four-hour notice)

Join our staff in brewing a private collecting of Asian-sourced lots in a collaborative and friendly environment. This is a public event with no registration required. The tasting is drop in drop out style meaning at any point in the two hour slot can you join. With that said we encourage participants to join for the entire two hour experience. For more information please read below.

At the beginning of this summer one of our staff members, Ashlynne, took an extended holiday through Korea and Japan to explore their local coffee communities. During her stay we asked if she would bring back a range of coffees for the community to try as coffee culture in Asia is starkly different from the Americas. Ashlynne was generous enough to bring back a multitude of lots with some highlights being Finca Daborah and Mikava lots to name a few. From four to six in the evening on August twenty fifth, we will be sharing these lots with you in a networking + friendly setting. This is a public event, we would love for you to join us in enjoying these stunning lots.

We’re back with another private tasting experience this time with 03’s focus on lots sourced from the greater Asian countries.
Our private tasting experience is the next step from our public cuppings + bar experiences for those seeking a deeper understanding of specialty lots. These private tasting experiences are omakase-style where a few individuals will gather together to focus on experiencing innovative mico-lots slowly in their totality. Our team will educate and brew for everyone while walking the group through their experience + curate helpful discourse on each lots impressions.

(This event is complimentary, however, there is a no-show fee for failure to provide a twenty-four-hour notice)