God Bless America!
Today is the day, America! Make sure you get out there and cast your vote!
If you think your vote doesn’t matter, just remember the 523 votes in Florida in 2000, that was the difference between Al Gore and George W. Bush. So make a difference, make your voice heard and change the world!
If you need […]
I first met Peter Frennhoff in Nicaragua last February when Ken and I toured the country with the Swedish Barista Team. Peter is an accomplished chef as well as an outstanding barista, and a great guy to hang out with. In the picture below, Peter (top left) poses with kids at the school at Finca […]
Yesterday morning (that is, Monday morning), we checked out of the fancy Decameron resort in Armenia and a small group of us hopped on a bus bound for the farm La Rochela located in the Trujilla Valle, about 3 hours from Armenia.
From the moment we got there, we knew we were in for something special. […]
Today is the last day of the Let’s Talk Coffee event in Colombia — it’s been a heck of a time. Tomorrow—Monday—Chris Baca and I will go visit a farm called La Rochella that’s about 3 hours from here (Armenia). We’ll spend the night on the farm, which should be awesome! Then on Tuesday, we’ll […]
That means “Let’s Talk Coffee Barista Championship”—holla! We just wrapped up the 1st annual LTCBC, with 6 sets of barista teams preparing 4 espressos and 4 cappuccinos with latte art for each of 4 sets of 2-person judges. It was so much fun! Here’s the winning team:
And here’s the scoreboard… you can see it was […]
I am in love with Colombia, and the Colombian mosquitoes are in love with me. Seriously, I haven’t had this many bug bites since summercamp. But it’s a small price to pay to be here among an incredible mix of coffee producers, roasters and baristas, here in Armenia, Colombia, at Let’s Talk Coffee.
It ain’t your […]
OMG! Can you, like, believe that Vanessa Hudgens is the new babe-alicious spokesmodel for
Intelligentsia Coffee? Her BF, Zach Efron is soooooo QT. Anyhoo, this is like totally not true, it’s totally phat-phree, ya know… But it’s pretty effing rad, YNWIM?
p.s. to meister, jay, and anyone else looking to continue the thread below (which is actually […]
Please excuse this late last post on the Bikes to Rwanda road-trip Clara and I just completed.
I last posted on Thursday, July 10, at which point we had reached Temple Coffee in Sacramento and were getting set to watch the bike race to benefit BTR.
I flew back to Portland on Friday night, decided to take […]
The Bay Area is suffering from smoke inhalation. Since Clara and I have spent a large part of this Bikes to Rwanda road trip along the coast of Northern California, we only really started seeing the terrible smoke from the California fires recently. On our way up here to Temple Coffee in Sacramento, it was […]
