Coffee
Read All About It!
I just downloaded my ipad edition of this week’s New Yorker. Actually I did it as soon as I got my reminder email that the iPad version was available. Why? Well because of this: Kelefa […]
Locales
Africa
Barista Nation NW Raises Money for CARE
There are so many reasons why I love Barista Nation, the traveling one-day coffee conference and workshop session organized by Anastasia Chovan of Unic. Barista Nation has been held to great success in Minneapolis, Vancouver, […]
Climate Change
Severe Storms Rock Central America
Our friend, Henry Hueck, a coffee farmer and the organizer of the coffee conference Ramacafe, from Nicaragua, has been keeping us abreast of developments across Central America as tropical storms continue to pummel the countries […]
Colombia
Keeping Up With the Colombians
I don’t know if you’ve been over to the Colombian Coffee Hub yet, but it’s pretty awesome! We’ve been watching all these recent videos submitted for the Camp Pull-A-Shot Scholarship, but meanwhile, former WBC Champion […]
Colombia
Colombia Revisited
No doubt the World Barista Championship held in Bogotá, Colombia this past June was one of the best ever. Not only with the winning barista hailing from a producing country (you can read all about […]
B.C.
Barista Nation ”That Means YOU!
If you haven’t yet registered for the incredibly cool, highly educational and super community building event that is Barista Nation British Columbia, do it now! Held on September 13 in Richmond, B.C. (just outside of […]
Africa
Donate to Africa’s Drought Relief Through Barista Nation
Much of the coffee that we enjoy and love comes from the horn of Africa. A massive drought has hit Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia, forcing millions in the horn of Africa into extreme famine. As […]
Chicago
Intelligentsia is Proud Proud Proud!
By Stephen Vick Last Sunday, June 26, about 16 Intelligentsia employees (and a few friends) marched in the 42nd Annual Chicago Pride Parade, serving roughly 15 gallons of cold-brewed coffee to a lucky handful of […]
Canada
For the Love of Coffee! In Victoria, B.C.!
By now you should have heard about the awesome coffee event that is being organized by some coffee-loving Canadians, including, and headed by, those loveable Barbers, Reg and his daughter, Julia. The event is called […]
B.C.
Coffee Kid Wants to Change the World!
So there’s this kid named Tatum Barber ”sound familiar? That’s because she’s the grand-daughter of tamper magician Reg Barber, and daughter of Julia, who is Reg’s right-hand woman at the company. It seems Tatum has […]