Posted on April 10, 2010 by Mike
The Milk Bar’s Alexander Hall thinks so. “The New York coffee scene is similar to Melbourne in 1985.” Ouch! But Francesco Agoftino from the Glass Shop thinks flat whites are “uncool”. And apparently the issue is so sensitive, a former Melburnian “who was also the first to roast premium-grade beans in New York” won’t even [...]
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Posted on April 7, 2010 by Mike
Voice Systems Technology, Inc. has released a pretty slick iPhone app that calculates the extraction yields and TDS percentages of your brews. Naturally a refractometer is still required to actually make calculations, but no longer are you dependent on Windows only software to make sense of what you are calculating. If you’re not sure why you need [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2010 by Mike
Is the Presso a Mypressi Twist killer? Probably not. Not requiring N2O cartridges is pretty cool, but would also make the manual operation more inconsistent. Labeling the device as a “cappuccino maker” doesn’t really help their cause either (since, you know, it doesn’t make cappuccinos). Still, it seems to have potential and I wouldn’t mind having one to [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on March 24, 2010 by Mike
via CNN iReport. It’s always nice to see friends on CNN. Remember this, Brent?
Continue ReadingPosted on January 18, 2010 by Mike
Apparently 2010 will be the year of the video. Here’s another nice one featuring Kyle Glanville. Espresso, Intelligentsia from Department of the 4th Dimension on Vimeo.
Continue ReadingPosted on December 16, 2009 by Mike
December 9th, in 3 minutes. from John Giannakos on Vimeo.
Continue ReadingPosted on November 24, 2009 by Mike
“Before Stumptown, Gorilla, Grumpy, and even Dallis, there was a coffee roaster who set up shop in Manhattan, and 160 years later, still proclaims the good news about specialty coffee. Gillie’s Coffee,who moved to Brooklyn from Greenwich Village in 1991, survived through the tumultuous economic times in the coffee world, the “coffee crash” of 1881, [...]
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Posted on September 30, 2009 by Mike
Originally uploaded by Chris Giannakos
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Posted on August 7, 2009 by Mike
I posted this on Twitter last weekend but thought it was worth posting here as well. It’s an excerpt from Coffee – Recent Developments, that was temporarily available online. The hardcopy is available on Amazon. Although this evidence supports grinding on demand, there has been interesting discussion regarding grinding in advance, which Scott Rao writes [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on July 7, 2009 by Mike
Yesterday I was surprised by James Freeman walking in the door. Today I was surprised to hear from VendrTV about this piece they did at Blue Bottle Coffee. Each week they travel the globe making podcasts “covering the best of the best curbside cuisines the world has to offer”. In this episode host Daniel Delaney [...]
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Posted on July 2, 2009 by Mike
Have I mentioned recently that I love this book? Because I do. And it’s worth mentioning again. Because even if you haven’t visited Scott’s stomping grounds (Cafe Myriade in Montreal), you can still appreciate the level of dedication that Scott brings to our craft.
Continue ReadingPosted on July 2, 2009 by Mike
Lifehacker – Illustrated Chart Makes Coffee Drinks Easy – Charts.
Continue ReadingPosted on June 11, 2009 by Mike
A video profile of Atlanta’s Finest;
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Posted on June 8, 2009 by Mike
New York’s coffee explosion has been noticed as far away as Australia. La Colombe, Jack’s, Joe, Think, Gimme, Abraco, and 71 Irving all got shoutouts in The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday. They should have emailed me. I could have doubled their list pretty quickly. Check out the article below to read the accompanying reviews. [...]
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Posted on June 5, 2009 by Mike
Notice the difference? This was the scene today at Barista PDX, so come get it. So says Billy Wilson anyway: Which means they’ve restocked, and the shelves look a little better than they did yesterday:
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Posted on June 5, 2009 by Mike
The Wall Street Journal reports today on the current state of high-end food trucks. Those more twitterly-inclined may already be familiar with this post from Serious Eats; A List of Street Food Vendors Using Twitter And while there are a few coffee trucks parked in various locales here in NYC, none have quite the pomp [...]
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