Daniel of Arabica
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Posts Tagged ‘Coffee’
Why the Seattle coffee scene now lags Portland’s
Why the Seattle coffee scene now lags Portland’s
If shop owners actively choose not to participate in the Seattle second-wave market, they’ll see very quickly that there aren’t that many other shops with whom they are in competition.
From the Slayer blog.
Sightglass Slayer demo
Slayer demo at Sightglass Coffee in San Francisco, CA (click for Lg.)
Our San Francisco “‘sproscursion” (which I have yet to write about … bad blogger!) wherein which the nice people (seriously) at Sightglass, in San Francisco, CA, gave us an impromptu demo of their swank new Slayer espresso machine.
Subrosa Panoramas
Subrosa exterior panorama (click for the big'n)
Subrosa interior panorama (click to supersize)
Oakland, CA. Four Barrel. Clever dripper. Espresso. Good coffee. Hipster magnet. It’s becoming a regular stop.
Brewed elsewhere for November 7th
- The Wall Street Journal talks coffee in Asia. Seemingly well researched – at least from a socio-economic-historical perspective – but I don’t think I would call Sumatra an obscure coffee growing region. Taiwan (I had no idea), Cuba? Sure, they’d qualify as relatively obscure in my book. Not Sumatra. Via theshot.coffeeratings.com
- The Shot cuts through the cruft of those absurd Illy/Starbucks rumors: “Anytime someone tries to sell coffee in this country, the knee-jerk media presumption is that they’re going to ‘Take On Starbucks’™”.
- And you thought the “house of mermaid” invented the frou-frou espresso beverage.
Ground Rules – Asia’s Best Coffee
Illy brands itself through independent U.S. cafés
Espresso Twists in Naples, Italy
Brewed elsewhere – November 3rd from 18:27 to 18:41
- Capresso Infinity Grinder – The reviews on CoffeeGeek, of the grinder here in "The Lab" at DofA world headquarters. Never has there been a day I've regretted the purchase.
- Homeroasting Heretic: Robusta Resolution – Adding to the robusta brouhaha, another proclamation from Coffee Hero on the bean that everyone loves to hate.
- Sincerely, San Francisco – From CleanHotDry. A beautiful photo-essay on a 'spro trip to San Francisco. Via MsC (manseekingcoffee.wordpress.com/)
Brewed elsewhere – November 2nd from 18:02 to 18:02
- Man Seeking Coffee 2.0 – One of my favorite coffee blogs is about to go into the shop for a bit of a tune-up.
Coffee’s complex route, from tree to cup
It never ceases to amaze me, how complex the process is, that puts coffee into my cup. And this is just one type of many different types of processes.
Via Coffee is Food
8 steps
James Hoffman’s “8 steps”
James Hoffman, in “8 steps to develop your coffee palate”, lays out a very simple, very easy method of developing and improving your coffee tasting competence.
Coffee is Food
Coffee is Food
Book reviews, coffee reviews, musings on quality and the state of the industry … and he’s a home roaster who’s coffee is being featured at a new Oakland, CA café. Ed Whitman: renaissance man.
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