Private Typewriter Tastings
An analogue experience for curious minds and delight-seekers.
Makes a perfect date, small gathering, celebration, or creative solo excursion.
Meet typewriters across eras:
rust-kissed relics, sculptural icons, click-ready classics, and reconditioned heirlooms built for another century.
Guided by a typewriter poet, you’ll type, explore, and roam the Secret Typewriter Museum.
About the Experience.
What is a Typewriter Tasting?
Think of a wine flight, but instead of swirling notes of oak and berry, you’re savoring the snap of keys, the velvet glide of a carriage, the whispery bell that announces you’re nearing the right margin.
We’ve gathered a small but mighty collection of hand-restored machines: antique classics from 1900s, 1940s workhorses, sleek 1960s portables, and the occasional eccentric oddball that insists you meet it on its own terms. Each one offers a different tactile voice, come see which typewriter speaks to your fingers and imagination.
It’s analogue joy, undistracted creativity, and micro-community magic rolled into one generous hour.
What’s Included?
Your tasting includes:
A customized experience guided by a professional typewriter poet
Encounters with distinct machines from across the decades
Your typed pages to take home (smudges, typos, triumphs and all)
An optional mini art-making station for creating collages, zines, and other artifacts
An invitation to explore the rest of the Secret Typewriter Museum
Select a VIP Private Tasting to add:
Private Reserve typewriter tasting selections
A personalized poem crafted live for you by the professional typewriter poet
Two selections from Typewriters Anonymous merchandise
Everything is designed to help you unspool your mind through tactile sensory, ink and immediacy.
Who’s It For?
Typewriter Tastings are perfect for:
• Creative wanderers
• Couples looking for an unplugged date
• Parents and teens craving shared artfulness
• Friends celebrating milestones
• Writers stuck in the digital swamp
• Anyone who wants to feel text become texture again
No typing experience needed. All enthusiasm welcome.
Group Sizes & Booking.
Private sessions available for 1–6 guests.
We host tastings in a studio in the historic Brewery Artists Lofts complex. The space hums with clickity clack and smells faintly of ink ribbon and possibility.
60 minutes
$25 for the first person
+$15 per additional guest
Looking for something exclusive and luxurious?
Book a VIP Private Typewriter Tasting session for 1-6 guests.
Step into a private analogue adventure designed to charm, surprise, and spark conversation.
60 minutes
$95 for the first person
+$35 per additional guest
Larger or special groups? We can craft something bespoke.
What to Expect.
You’ll arrive, settle in, and meet a curated collection of machines.
We’ll share their backstory and show you their secret handshakes.
You’ll type, laugh, discover new muscles in your forearms, and possibly fall in love.
You’ll compare and contrast machines, noticing their moods and mechanical accents.
You’ll leave with pages that feel like little time capsules of your afternoon.
Once your tasting experience has concluded you are free to explore the rest of the museum. Many more machines to see, several to type on, and a large variety of machines for sale, including the most exquisite of them all in our collection: the reconditioned typewriters by long-time Highland Park resident, Ruben Flores.
The museum also offers poetry to peruse, artistic conversation, an art making station, and art for sale.
It’s simple, grounding, and wildly fun.
Book your tasting.
Book your tasting.
