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OUTLIER: Gimme! Coffee X OUTLIER

Posted on July 4, 2009 by Mike

I offered these up on Twitter and was surprised at the response I got. Anyone else want one? There’s still a few left. OUTLIER: Gimme! Coffee X OUTLIER.

Gimme! Coffee – Brewing at Home, Part 4: Improve Your Water Quality – Blog

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Mike

A nice post from Erin was published over at the Gimme! Blog yesterday on the importance of your water. Topics include filters, hardness, and total dissolved solids (TDS). There’s a shoutout to Cirqua Customized Water, but no quotes from Skip. Luckily I found him hiding on YouTube; Click the link below to read more about [...]

America’s Top Lunch Trucks – WSJ.com

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 [...]

Breaking News!

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Mike

And by breaking I mean breaking! See those holes in this better than nothing Twitpic? The walls are currently being torn down in Ithaca, NY that separate our State St cafe from what used to be our original office space. Alexis has kept us pretty well informed on the happenings in Ithaca, but this cellphone [...]

Barista In The Wild, Part 3: Working Towards Coffee Sustainability | Serious Eats

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Mike

Allison Hemier’s third Serious Eats post focuses on sustainability, and includes a photo from Tonx. Allison says she’s “not drinking the kool-aid” while promoting Starbucks green buying practices, and to be fair, she does seem to be taking a fairly objective and thoughtful approach to the topic. Included in this post are shoutouts to Intelligentsia [...]

Ithaca Fest 2009

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Mike

I drove from NYC to Ithaca on Thursday to help participate in the Ithaca Festival, a 30 year old, weekend long celebration of music, food, and fun. It’s the first time in our 8 year history that we’ve actually had a booth at the festival, facilitated by our experience operating at the Ithaca’s Farmers Market [...]

Synesso for Sale

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Mike

I get a lot of hits from the search term “Synesso for sale”. Since we do in fact, have a “Synesso for sale”, I thought I’d share with you our current equipment offering sheet. Below is a screen shot. Clicking on it will take you to a Google document with more items for sale as [...]

Brodsky got me High

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Mike

Roughly seven hours after cupping Beloyas, Arichas, and Geishas with Joseph Brodsky and co, it occurred to me (finally) that not all caffeine is created equally. Much like the way different forms of alcohol have different effects on the body, so too does caffeine. The coffees that we cupped at Gimme yesterday left me feeling [...]

Espresso Martini

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Mike

Congratulations to Gimme’s resident Roasting Dept Manager for her work consulting for a drink recipe that landed on the pages of Michael Turback’s new book, Coffee Drinks. Colleen helped create the “Real Deal Espresso Martini” using our quintessential Mocha Java blend. Since she just returned from a trip visiting the fields of our Las Mingas [...]

Eating Ithaca

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Mike

For those who haven’t had the pleasure, you can hear our impresario Kevin Cuddeback wax poetic on the origins of Gimme Coffee in podcast form here, at Eating Ithaca. It’s a bit lengthy, but it’s the most I’ve heard Kevin speak in the last year or so… In other news, we have a brand new [...]

Milky Goodness?

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Mike

Last nights festivities included a cupping of various milk samples that are available here in NYC. I didn’t attend (I was already wearing pj’s when it started, plus I don’t drink milk) so I can’t tell you what the results were. I can point you towards Anne though, who likely knows exactly what the results [...]

Awning Ahead

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Mike

Our latest venture in this game called Gimme! has been open for business for just over six weeks now. Today concluded the final step in all the major projects that opening a new cafe entails. It took longer than expected, but it’s done now. Meanwhile back in Ithaca, our original shop is finishing up an [...]

Anfim Rising

Posted on January 5, 2008 by Mike

Yesterday our newest toys arrived in the form of a pair of Anfim Super Caimano’s. While the subject of some discussion on various forums and blogs, these grinders are not common here in the States (at least not on the East Coast) due mostly to their limited availability. Imported from Vince up at 49th Parallel, [...]

Chromed Out

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Mike

Guess what will go under this? Besides this guy. He’s not permanent. Yes he made a mess yesterday, but it was well worth it. He finished almost all of our plumbing requirements.

Barista Manual 1.0

Posted on June 15, 2007 by Mike

It’s been years in the making, but version 1.0 of our Barista Manual has been published. Why version 1.0? As all veterans are well aware the science of coffee is an ever evolving process. Theories are constantly challenged and tweaked, techniques are further refined. We welcome constructive criticism and hope to release updates to this [...]