Posted on June 16, 2010 by Mike
Not new, but new to me. Kyle Glanville interviewed at Intelligentisa’s Silverlake location. “Great coffee is always gonna have to be the result of extra hard work, and extra attention to detail”. [YouTube]
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Posted on May 17, 2010 by Mike
Tomorrow is the big auction. Above are the results from last year’s number one lot, Reserva de la Señora (the full results from last year are available here).
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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 3, 2010 by Mike
The NY Post has a story today about the $12 cup of Ethiopian Nekisse imported through Ninety Plus, roasted by Cafe Grumpy. It’s similar to the $13 cup article in CNN, though clearly more skeptical (and a little dismissive). As Colleen says, “you wouldn’t walk into a wine shop and complain about a $12 glass”. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 October 22, 2009 by Mike
GQ Magazine listed their favorite coffee companies in America, complete with a slideshow. It’s nice to see so many friends acknowledged at once, and to such a large audience. Congrats to you all! Chris, this isn’t the first time your arm has been published. Bonus points to you if you can remember the first. (via [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2009 by Mike
Fresh on the heels of opening their third location, Grumpy will soon start roasting their own. They’ll join Jamie from Abraço up in Greenpoint, but if you follow Liz Clayton’s flickr, you’ve already seen the sneak peek; For more info, click the link below. Café Grumpy Will Start Roasting Their Own — Grub Street: New [...]
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Posted on July 1, 2009 by Mike
SCAA Members: It has come to our attention that 2 containers of coffee have been stolen from a locked yard of a California Bay Area warehouse. As the coffee community is a small and close knit commnunity, your help is requested. The counts and ICO marks are listed below. If you are approached by someone offering [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2009 by Mike
The Washington Post got in depth today with Counter Culture’s new training center in Washington, DC. “Counter Culture staffers describe their mission in part as an effort to reshape the way Americans think about coffee. In an ideal world, they say, drinkers might liken it to wine: an artisan product with specific seasons and a [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2009 by Mike
Ritual Roasters in San Francisco, California got some nice slide show action when News Day stopped by to watch them cup samples for the Panama Esmeralda auction that just occurred. Of course, the photo shoot happened before the auction. So naturally I had to go back to the auction results to double check whether or [...]
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Posted on June 4, 2009 by Mike
The El Salvador COE auction was today, and what’s notable is not who won lots of green in this years auction, but who didn’t. Conspicuously absent from the list are roasters that traditionally scoop up the best of the best every year. Nevertheless this year’s 1st place lot price has eclipsed last year’s high ($20.10), [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on June 2, 2009 by Mike
Part 2 of Allison Hemier’s Serious Eats mini-series was posted today on the subject of roasting. If you’ve never been to Starbucks HQ in Seattle, this is an inside look. Click the link below to read her thoughts on sample roasting, and the variations when roasting beans from different origins. Barista in the Wild, Part [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on May 22, 2009 by Mike
A new species of coffee tree has been discovered in Cameroon. The discovery of Coffea Charrieriana is so remarkable that it made the International Institute for Species Exploration’s Top 10 list of 2009. Is this the end of the traditional decaffeination process? Has anyone actually tasted it? Top 10 – 2009 | International Institute for [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on May 22, 2009 by Mike
Colleen is in Panama right now, hanging out at Finca Hartmann with the folks from Ninety Plus. Although she hasn’t been updating her Twitter account with tasty tweets, I did manage to score this exclusive photo from her Facebook account. Her Facebook status by the way, currently says; “rode a horse for the first time [...]
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