Entrepreneurs / Small Business  September 2, 2016

The Unseen Bean: Blindness can’t stop master coffee roaster

An automated voice on a touch screen helps Gerry Leary use the cash register at The Unseen Bean.
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The Unseen Bean opened in May 2007 at 2051 Broadway in Boulder. Dallas Heltzell/for BizWest

BOULDER — Everywhere Gerry Leary turned, people told him there were things he couldn’t do because he couldn’t see.

Turns out those people were the shortsighted ones.

“In my life, everything I’ve done I started myself,” said Leary, 64, owner of The Unseen Bean, the hot spot for “blind-roasted coffee” in downtown Boulder. “I found it easier to build my own work than to find it.”

Leary has spent his life finding his…

With BizWest since 2012 and in Colorado since 1979, Dallas worked at the Longmont Times-Call, Colorado Springs Gazette, Denver Post and Public News Service. A Missouri native and Mizzou School of Journalism grad, Dallas started as a sports writer and outdoor columnist at the St. Charles (Mo.) Banner-News, then went to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before fleeing the heat and humidity for the Rockies. He especially loves covering our mountain communities.
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