Between the crisp cold air outside and the football on TV screens wherever I go, there’s no denying it is really and truly fall at this point. And that’s so exciting! Autumn is when the […]
In the last 10 years, Portland has grown from a great place for foodies to a destination restaurant city. Maybe it’s the cheap rents, maybe the liberal populace, but definitely the adventurous appetites of Portlanders […]
Coffee folks in the Pacific Northwest drive their cars from Portland to Olympia to Seattle on a fairly regular basis; ours is one of the most colorful, quality-focused coffee regions around, and we like to […]
The Guatemalan road trip continues in New York next week with two cuppings of the spectacular microlot coffees on offer from TostadurÃa Guatemalteca Lab (TG-LAB) and Mayaland Coffee. You may recall our write-up about […]
Lots is happening north of the border this fall ”here are two of the not-to-miss Canadian coffee events! ¢ Canada’s Western Regional Barista Championship, September 28-29 Artigiano Roasting Co. is poised to welcome baristas from […]
Barista Nation is one of our absolute favorite events for coffee professionals ”as it hops from city to city, country to country, Barista Nation brings together the local coffee community to share in the expertise […]
If there’s one thing you baristas love playing with, it’s different kinds of brew methods. While we can experiment endlessly with different techniques and tools, from Kalita to V60, we do find favorites that we […]
Happy Humpday, everyone! We’re halfway through the week, which means the countdown to some awesome coffee events is on: fall is always so great in the specialty-coffee industry, with Coffee Fest Seattle, the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast Coffee […]
The glass carafes that essentially cook coffee that has been spit through an old-fashioned coffee brewer are largely absent from the specialty-coffee industry ”finally. They hung around for a long time and can still be […]
I clearly remember hearing about Stumptown owner Duane Sorenson’s epic trip to Honduras and Guatemala years back, when he smuggled Gesha beans onto the farms of some great friends: Arturo Aguirre in Guatemala (Finca El […]
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