May 2012
1 post
Ice Ice Baby
With the warmer months approaching us more cafes are pushing iced coffee, and today a series of tweets about iced coffee has started an online debate about wether cold brew (the process of extracting coffee over a long amount of time with cooler water) or Japanese style iced coffee (brewing hot coffee directly onto ice) is better than the other. This is interesting to me because to me it’s...
March 2012
3 posts
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Los Angeles - Handsome Coffee Roasters
Last month, I was lucky enough to make it down to the Arts District of Los Angeles for the opening of Handsome Coffee Roasters. Most of you have heard the story a million times, so feel free to skip the rest and enjoy the photos. For those of you who are asking what the hell a “Handsome Coffee Roaster” is, I’ll tell you. Handsome is made up of a group of really awesome people who...
Coffee Economics
Recent talk in the news about rising gas prices has gotten me thinking about the future of Specialty Coffee. I guess I’m used to hearing people talk about how much gas will cost in fifty years, but what about coffee? How much will an espresso cost in fifty years? How much will a pour over cost? Will any kind of pour over still be around? It’s exciting to think about all of the...
February 2012
7 posts
How much does your coffee actually cost?
Today in the New York Times, Oliver Strand wrote an article that shows people how much their Nespresso capsules and K-Cups actually cost. He says,
For example, the Nespresso Arpeggio costs $5.70 for 10 espresso capsules, while the Folgers Black Silk blend for a K-Cup brewed-coffee machine is $10.69 for 12 pods. But that Nespresso capsule contains 5 grams of coffee, so it costs about $51 a...
“Making good coffee has little to do with art and love. It is to a much greater...”
– Tim Wendelboe
January 2012
9 posts
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Santa Isabel - Tim Wendelboe
First, let me apologize for my lack of posting this last week. I’ve been super busy and would rather wait until I have enough time to write a well thought out blog post as opposed to just putting something crappy and boring up. I was super excited to be able to try this coffee so please read on!
Tim Wendelboe is the 2004 World Barista Champion and is also the name of his roasting...
Kenya Karatina AA - Tonx
So far, 2012 is shaping up to be a pretty great year for coffee in my kitchen. My second bag of the year is the latest offering from Tonx.
Wondering what the hell a “Tonx” is? Tonx is a coffee roasting company made up of two dudes in Los Angeles that believe (rightly so, I think) everyone’s taste buds deserve freshly roasted coffee. They believe this so much that they will do...
Rwanda Karongi Gitesi - Wrecking Ball Coffee...
Not only is this my first bag of coffee of 2012, it’s also my first coffee from Wrecking Ball. Here’s a little about them from their website:
Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters is a coffee roasting company in the San Francisco Bay Area. We’re working on quickly becoming the area’s most recognized purveyor of sustainably sourced, expertly roasted specialty coffee, presented...
to start...
Two things inspired me to start this blog. The first one was my wife’s Christmas present to me this year. I had been collecting all of the bags of coffee I went through this last year, mostly because of the artwork and happy memories I had of the coffees, and knew that she was going to do something cool with them. I had no idea that what she had in mind was going to be my Christmas present....