FLUID Coffee Roasters - Downtown Valparaiso

06/04/2026

🐶☕️ DOGS. COFFEE. SUMMER. ☀️🌊

Okay, friends... it's time. 🖤

We're officially launching our FLUID Summer Dog Photo Contest! 🐾✨️

Bring your dog to any FLUID location, ask your barista to snap a photo, and you're entered! 📸🐶

All summer long, each café will choose its favorite pup photo. Then we'll put the finalists online and let YOU vote for the winner. 👇

🏆 1st Place → $100 FLUID Gift Card ☕️

🥈 2nd Place → $50 FLUID Gift Card ☕️

🥉 3rd Place → $25 FLUID Gift Card ☕️

Contest runs now through Labor Day. ☀️

🐾 Tiny dogs
🐾 Big dogs
🐾 Senior dogs
🐾 Rescue dogs
🐾 Adventure dogs
🐾 Dogs that think they're people

We love them all. 🥹🖤

Most FLUID locations have treats and water waiting, and our patios are dog friendly, including the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center café. 🌊🐾

So grab your best friend, come get coffee, and let us meet the real star of the family. ☕️✨️

Drop your dog's name in the comments! 👇🐶🖤

05/31/2026

✋☕️ If you haven't heard...

We moved across the street. 🖤

You'll now find us at 74 Lincolnway in downtown Valpo, directly across from Central Park.

More room. Better patio. Same coffee obsession. Same longtime crew. Same baristas you know and love. ☕️🌿

Swing by, grab a Lemon Love, claim a patio seat, and spend a little time with us.

See you across the street. 🌊🖤

05/17/2026

Some collaborations are marketing.
Some are mission. 🌎

We are incredibly honored to announce the beginning of what will become an annual collaboration between FLUID Specialty Coffee Roasters, Finca Amistad in Costa Rica, and the Indiana Audubon through the Indiana Dunes Birding Festival. 🐦‍⬛✨

Each year, together, we will feature a rare Smithsonian Bird Friendly® certified coffee connected to conservation, migratory bird protection, biodiversity, and the extraordinary ecosystem surrounding the Indiana Dunes. 🌿

The Indiana Dunes are one of the greatest migratory bird corridors in North America. Millions of birds move through this region alongside Lake Michigan each year, making this area sacred ground for birders, conservationists, and nature lovers alike. 🌊🪶

FINCA AMISTAD is not simply a coffee.

It is a living example of stewardship.

While much of the coffee industry has shifted toward aggressive sun-grown production, Roberto Montero and his family preserved thousands of acres of forest and wildlife habitat in Costa Rica. Their farm exists in harmony with migratory birds, native trees, and the surrounding ecosystem.

That philosophy deeply aligns with FLUID. ☕️🖤

This year’s release features notes of:

☕️ Honeydew Melon
☕️ Cacao
☕️ Lemon Zest
☕️ Caramel

Balanced. Elegant. Forest grown.
A coffee that feels alive. 🌿

This coffee is available now at ALL FLUID locations in an extremely limited batch while supplies last. ✨

We hope this becomes a long tradition.
One rooted in conservation, beauty, community, and exceptional coffee.

Drink coffee that protects something bigger than itself. 🖤

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05/15/2026

☕️ 🌊 🖤

One of the coolest parts of the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center is that you can literally grab a coffee, walk the Indigenous Cultural Trail, watch the dunes film, wander the gift shop full of Indiana-made things, and then head straight to the beach.

Free parking. Lake air. Quiet Great Lakes mystical forest energy the whole way through. 🌙

Indiana Dunes

05/14/2026

🖤✨️☕️ THE VOTES HAVE SPOKEN ☕️✨️🖤

575 total votes later... across Facebook + Instagram over 50K views... the current found its direction. 🌊🖤

After hundreds of customer photos, vintage treasures, tattoos, textures, layers, and people walking through FLUID fully expressing who they are... we officially have a winner. ✨️🏆

🥇 #1 / Sacred Skyn / 234 votes 🏆🔥☕️

And with that... #1 wins our FLUID Best Dressed competition and a $100 FLUID Gift Card ☕️✨️🔥

There was something magnetic here. Vintage energy. Art. Rebellion. Storytelling. Personal style that felt completely lived in. 🌙🕯☕️

And we absolutely need to honor another artist behind the magic… 🖤✨️

The incredible jacket worn was created by The Retro Rose 🎨🔥 Absolute wearable art.

Because creativity deserves celebration too, FLUID will also be gifting Retro Rose a $50 FLUID Gift Card available at 74 Lincolnway ☕️🖤✨️

Please go show Sacred Skin & Retro Rose some love. The craftsmanship and energy together brought this look to life. 🙌☕️

👉 Sacred Skin, your $100 FLUID Gift Card will be waiting for you at our Downtown Valpo location:

☕️ FLUID
74 Lincolnway
Valparaiso, Indiana

Just stop in and let our crew know you're picking up your Best Dressed winner gift card. 🏆✨️

And to EVERYONE who participated...

Thank you. Truly. 🖤

Thank you for showing us your individuality.
Thank you for bringing creativity through our doors.
Thank you for making FLUID feel alive.
Thank you for reminding us that style is storytelling. ☕️✨️

This felt bigger than a contest. It felt like community. 🌙🖤

575 votes. 50K + views Hundreds of beautiful humans. Local magic everywhere. ☕️🌊✨️

This felt VERY FLUID.

05/13/2026

What an honor!!!

ROUGH MOCK UP of coffee labels ,so Very Proud of out in Northwest Indiana and proud to collaborate with them on this wonderful coffee as they get ready to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Fluid , their success and the culture they built like The Alley is admirable. Now 6+ Coffee Shops. I was born in Northwestern Indiana and it is a soft spot in my heart. Love you guys Chuck and Allison you are AMAZING , glad I was able to help a little but this is your HUGE SUCCESS , will be available in The Alley soon.
F**k Corporate Coffee

05/09/2026

🤚We NEED your VOTE 💅

🖤✨☕️ FLUID BEST DRESSED FINALISTS ☕️✨🖤

After hundreds of customer photos across ALL FLUID locations during April… these are our FINALISTS. 👠🔥

Now it’s time for the public to vote. 🏆

👇 TO VOTE 👇

Comment:

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One vote per person 🫶
Tag your stylish friends ☕️
Share this post to your story 👡✨️

🏆 The overall winner will receive a $100 FLUID Gift Card ☕️🔥

If we've missed a tag.... Tag us below & we'll add you!

We seriously love the creativity, individuality, vintage energy, tattoos, layers, textures, color stories, personal style, and artistic expression that walked through our doors last month and every day. 🖤

This feels very FLUID. ☕️🌙✨️

04/19/2026

Today at Noon Coffee + Cars at FLUID Coffee Creek (Chesterton) join us for this free event! ✨️☕️

04/19/2026

✨️☕️We had a blast in San Diego for the Specialty Coffee Association 2026 World of Coffee Expo. We're bring back the energy & passion to the 219! ✨️☕️

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