http://www.danielofarabica.com Brew, drink, repeat Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:52:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.danielofarabica.com/quotes/to-brooklyn/ http://www.danielofarabica.com/quotes/to-brooklyn/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:52:15 +0000 Daniel http://www.danielofarabica.com/?p=206034174 It’s official Brooklyn! As of tomorrow at 7am, we will be ready to serve you coffee! – blue bottle coffee (@bluebottlenyc) They’re heeeere…well, really they’re there but you know what I mean. It’s like the Linden St. kiosk will have a direct line to New York. ]]> http://www.danielofarabica.com/quotes/to-brooklyn/feed/ 0 http://www.danielofarabica.com/photography/the-gift/ http://www.danielofarabica.com/photography/the-gift/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:50:53 +0000 Daniel http://www.danielofarabica.com/?p=206034171 The gift that keeps on giving: 4 coffees from De La Paz arrived in the mail the other day. ]]> http://www.danielofarabica.com/photography/the-gift/feed/ 0 http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/arrivederci-sig-lavazza/ http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/arrivederci-sig-lavazza/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:11:52 +0000 Daniel http://www.danielofarabica.com/?p=206034168 RIP Emilio Lavazza, 1932–2010. ]]> http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/arrivederci-sig-lavazza/feed/ 0 http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/ethiopian-direct/ http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/ethiopian-direct/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:47:52 +0000 Daniel http://www.danielofarabica.com/?p=206034166 I might be late to the game on this – I seem to remember hearing something on the grapevine about the specialty coffee industry’s loss of direct access to Ethiopian coffee farmers – but it seems that the Ethiopian government has found a way to both have some measure of control over its coffee industry [...]]]> http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/ethiopian-direct/feed/ 0 http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/what%e2%80%99s-the-problem-with-a-generic-espresso-blend-%c2%ab-barista-uk/ http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/what%e2%80%99s-the-problem-with-a-generic-espresso-blend-%c2%ab-barista-uk/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:13:26 +0000 Daniel http://www.danielofarabica.com/?p=206034164 What’s the problem with a generic espresso blend?, wherein a fellow coffee blogger echos (or did I echo him?) my own personal sentiments about a particularly nasty article on God Shot. ]]> http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/what%e2%80%99s-the-problem-with-a-generic-espresso-blend-%c2%ab-barista-uk/feed/ 1 http://www.danielofarabica.com/miscellanea/polarization/ http://www.danielofarabica.com/miscellanea/polarization/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:06:30 +0000 Daniel http://www.danielofarabica.com/?p=206034143 Lord knows I love where the specialty coffee industry is going: all of the experimentation with brew styles, a new focus on seasonality, etc, etc, etc. It’s all a plus and I hope that it is going to raise coffee out of it’s current, predominantly fast-food frame of reference. But, really, I hope beyond all [...]]]> http://www.danielofarabica.com/miscellanea/polarization/feed/ 3 http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/turning-wine-into-coffee/ http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/turning-wine-into-coffee/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:34:34 +0000 Daniel http://www.danielofarabica.com/?p=206034128 James Hoffman, owner of Square Mile Roasters in the UK, earns my respect with almost every post he writes: always asking questions, constantly saying to himself – and to us, via his blog – “what if?” Never stuffy, always accessible. It’s why jimseven is one of my favorites blogs – not just one of my [...]]]> http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/turning-wine-into-coffee/feed/ 0 http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/a-coffee-bar/ http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/a-coffee-bar/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:53:16 +0000 Daniel http://www.danielofarabica.com/?p=206034098 It’s a coffee bar, not a cafe. Oliver Strand – by way of Stumptown’s Duane Sorenson – of the New York Times drops some knowledge. ]]> http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/a-coffee-bar/feed/ 0 http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/worth-watching/ http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/worth-watching/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:48:58 +0000 Daniel http://www.danielofarabica.com/?p=206034090 James Hoffman – AKA “jimseven” – owner of Square Mile Coffee Roasters in London, UK has posted a few videos worth watching on his site, one featuring Norwegians descending on London and drinking all of it’s espresso and two more featuring a couple Intelligentsia Venice folks doin’ their thang on the espresso machine and siphon [...]]]> http://www.danielofarabica.com/links/worth-watching/feed/ 0 http://www.danielofarabica.com/photography/mug-shot/ http://www.danielofarabica.com/photography/mug-shot/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:49:47 +0000 Daniel http://www.danielofarabica.com/?p=206034078 The current lineup. The collection continues. ]]> http://www.danielofarabica.com/photography/mug-shot/feed/ 0