Posted on May 5, 2010 by Mike
Another news piece on Grumpy’s $12 cup of Ethiopia Nekisse. This time on Channel 11 WPIX, and much more positive than earlier coverage. Take a tour of their Greenpoint cafe/roastery with Liam and Colleen as they discuss their latest offering.
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Posted on May 4, 2010 by Mike
I love Twitter. I love the brevity, accessibility to brilliant people, and following the people I follow. But I don’t love the way great (often technical) conversations are sometimes hosted there. Occasionally someone I follow posts an interesting question that stimulates responses, answers, and more great questions, and suddenly my timeline is flooded with fantastic content from [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2010 by Mike
And you wonder why restaurant coffee is so bad? [via PRNewswire]
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Posted on May 4, 2010 by Mike
Watch as the hosts of the CBS Early Show try, but totally fail to understand the $12 cup of coffee. [A $12 Cup of Coffee! - The Early Show - CBS News]
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Posted on May 3, 2010 by Mike
Lots of great photos of the new Stumptown Amsterdam available via grover does amsterdam, here and here.
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Posted on May 3, 2010 by Mike
View Stumptown in Amsterdam in a larger map
Continue ReadingPosted on April 15, 2010 by Mike
Vis Recommended coffee bars around the world i et større kart Tim Wendelboe has created a curated list of cafes around the world that he recommends. If you do a lot of traveling, I recommend bookmarking this map.
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Posted on April 11, 2010 by Mike
Scott Rao has just published his sequel to ”The Professional Barista’s Handbook”. If you’ve read the first book then this is just as exciting for you as it is for me. “Everything But Espresso” will be available for shipping on April 17th and focuses on, well, everything but espresso. Screenshots from both titles are available on his [...]
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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 9, 2010 by Mike
At least according to Eileen Hassi of Ritual Coffee it is. And who can blame her? Managing both Ben and Steve (featured above) must feel like playground duty. Also featured in yesterday’s New York Times article are Blue Bottle, Ecco Caffe, Four Barrel, Barefoot, and Sight Glass. Although for a more detailed perspective on the state of San [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on April 5, 2010 by Mike
An interesting piece on ABC’s Nightline about Starbucks, featuring interviews with Howard Shultz. Particularly interesting to me was the contrast they made between Starbucks and Cafe Grumpy. Starbucks and Grumpy have a little bit of history, with Shultz famously declaring that Grumpy served him “the best cup of brewed coffee I have ever tasted” shortly before he acquired the Coffee [...]
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Posted on March 30, 2010 by Mike
Although I think it’s admirable that they enjoy “exposing the natural affinity between coffee and wood”, I find it curious that Summermoon Wood Fired Coffee seems to miss the connection between coffee and themselves. From their arguably misguided commitment to Fair Trade, to their web shop that lacks so completely in transparency the countries of origin aren’t even [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on March 24, 2010 by Mike
via CNN iReport. It’s always nice to see friends on CNN. Remember this, Brent?
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Posted on March 8, 2010 by Mike
If you’ve been looking for Liz Clayton’s MARBC 2010 and/or CoffeeFest photos, let me help you out. Click on any of the pics above to see her full photostream.
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Posted on February 20, 2010 by Mike
What if you could easily isolate and identify each of the compounds above? Discovering unique and interesting coffees from hundreds of samples would become a lot easier. Similarly, desirable roast profiles would be easier to seek out and repeat. Researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have created a way to do just that using pigments that change color [...]
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Posted on February 17, 2010 by Mike
Following up on the New York Times article by Oliver Strand, I spent some time at Cafe Grumpy today playing with Bunn’s new Trifecta. First discussed on Coffeed just over a year ago, the bullet points listed here by Kevin last October seem to hold true today. But I didn’t enjoy Bunn’s recommended recipe. I tried it, [...]
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