Our dear friend Jamie Rice just wrote to me with news of her experience at Burning Man this year ”August 26 to September 2 ”where she worked as a barista at Center Camp Café, the […]
Hooray for Sunday! This last day of the week (or first day of the next, whichever you want to call it), is a great time for brewing a cup of some stellar coffee and settling […]
Big, huge, enormous, mammoth, and even more gargantuan modifiers apply to the upcoming International Coffee Week which runs from September 9-12 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The event will host not only a sprawling trade show […]
Imagine you’re a barista in Russia. Most of you can’t, can you? It’s an enormous yet isolated land, and the chances of most Russian baristas visiting a coffee-producing country are extremely slim. In fact, the […]
Dang! Did a lot of you want some sweet new steaming pitchers or what? (Or perhaps you’re all just Trail Blazer fans and you want some of that beautiful red, black and white!) Either way, […]
Well you didn’t have to wait as long to make it to midweek this week (at least if you’re in the US) since we had a holiday on Monday. But here we are at Humpday […]
A big thanks to our friends at Visions Espresso for throwing some awesome Humpday swag our way. Cole McBride, a fierce latte art and barista competitor, as well as a Visions staffer, contacted me about […]
The man himself ”that would be reigning World Barista Champion Pete Licata ”is here in Red Square, Moscow, giving a captivating lecture on dosing and grinding for espresso to a group of about 30 Russian […]
Annnnddd I’m back! For the third year, I’m lucky enough to be joining in one of the industry’s most unique, not to mention successful, promotional coffee events: the Specialty Coffee Show in Red Square, produced […]
Editor’s note: Don Niemyer and his wife, Carissa, operated Speedboat Coffee in Portland, Ore., until not too long ago when he and his family decided to make a big change: not only were they relocating […]
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