Three finalists will be chosen based on the criteria above. Contestants will be notified if they are chosen as finalists. At that time, each finalist will be asked to submit three different one-pound roasted coffee samples. Coffees will be judged on aroma, color, imperfections, bean s...
Normally we love infographics, but this might be the worst coffee infographic of all time. It’s full of blatantly inaccurate facts, it is at times very confusing, and worst of all, for an infographic it is particularly unpleasant to look at. But want to know how we really feel? Click ...
Starbucks has a HALF OFF espresso-drinks deal this week From March 6 through 14 Starbucks is offering a limited-time deal: buy any espresso beverage before 11 a.m., and enjoy any hot or iced espresso beverage for HALF OFF after 2 p.m. that same day. Posted at 01:33 PM | Permalink
Just aired: David Duchovny’s Californication cameo at Intelli Venice, featuring M’lissa Owens and the newly-Handsome Christopher Nicely Abel Alameda. We are to understand that, in the plot of this particular television show, Mr. Duchovny’s character’s daughter is a barista at the Inte...
The four steps of a Starbucks coffee tasting are (1) smell (2) slurp (3) locate and (4) describe. Over and over again, I’ve watched partners rush through the four steps with a coffee tasting. Frankly, as the partner is standing there talking about the coffee, and the steps, the coffee...
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has flowers that can be attractive to nectar-feeding birds, it does not have fleshy fruit, important to many birds. Because it is harvested for timber, the areas where it is planted are subject to periodic disturbance and alteration. One study* found that in shade coffee farms in the ...
, a barista from Vancouver who joined the Coffee Common team at TED, took time between working on bar to shoot this incredible video of Coffee Common moments throughout the week. It captures so much with so little. It’s a lovely vignette of both the professionalism and fun that takes ...
Spotted today via Twitter infocrush, the menu for today’s slow bar service at Intelligentsia Venice has a theme. Nyarusiza Rwanda espresso with cantaloupe sorbet? Treat yo’ self! Agua Preta Brazil espresso with chocolate ganache, shaken with ice and topped with a touch of heavy cream?...
Both the dark side and the bright side of the trend toward offering select, precisely identified lots of green coffee (aka “microlots”) showed up in this month’s sampling of thirty-four coffees from Colombia. On the bright side, we cupped several precisely identified, small-lot coffee...
A Pleasant Journey on the Lighter Side: Colombia Valle de Cauca “La Esperanza” by Christina in Coffee Reviews Tweet Since I began to look into Organic and Fair Trade practices and how they affect the quality of life, not only for us but for those who grow our food and drink, I have be...
There’s more bad news out of Jamaica, appearing via Associated Press waiver wire: A few years ago in this mist-shrouded mountain town, steep slopes were quilted with some of the world’s most valuable coffee trees. Farmers scrambled to increase acreage and pickers painstakingly filled ...
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The espresso, pulled short/medium with a brownish crema, held flavors of bitter cocoa, fig bar, ginger, basil and a bit of lemon on the back end. Also a fairly palatable extraction, but not too stellar. It should also be noted that they sell alcohol and have a gorgeous ever-changing m...
Will Vegas be the next big city to experience the global coffee kablooey? When you stop and think for a second, the City of Neon has everything: all-night party culture, upscale tourists happy to drop a buck, wage-slave casino employees in need of a cup to start / end their shifts, lu...
“If only this were as cool as it could have been,” is a saying that all bloggers should have tattooed on our foreheads, but good heavens, if only this green buying board game were as cool as it could have been. Instead, it’s a vituperable bunch of bean-blending caffeine driven drivel....
Most machines use a standardized portafilter basket with the volume capacity of 14 grams for the 'double-shot', but 12 gram versions are available for some machines. For the 'single-shot', most people are comfortable with the standard 7 gram basket, not even knowing that a 6 gram bask...
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