We freakin' love Al Keating. Al is the managing and creative director for Coffee Supreme in New Zealand, where he has helped turn a popular local cafe into a coffee company with global influence. Al is enthusiastic about coffee, but is even more jazzed about people, as evidenced by his talk at the 2014 SCAA Symposium (we realize "talk at the SCAA Symposium" isn't exactly the most thrilling-sounding link, but watch it: it's so great). We got to hang out with Al on Coffee Supreme's jaunt through the States last year, and asked him one question. You can virtually hang out with Al on Twitter and Instagram.  

At CREMA, we try to live out the mantra "Do one thing and do it well." For us, that one thing is coffee -- we want to do it the best we can. 

We are so interested in and inspired by our peers. To get to the heart of their "one thing," we've previously run a series called "What Inspires Us" in this space. That was a fun, deep look into the lives of our fellow Nashvillians.