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No Rest: All-In-One Roaster / Grinder / Coffee Maker Swings, Misses
Jul. 28 | All Looks Fresh roasted coffee needs more than a few minutes to rest before brewing. It doesn’t take a Director of Advancing Ingenuity and Developing Brilliance to tell you that. Entertaining video, beautiful device, terrible coffee. Best served for roasting Kopi Luwak, on your 80 foot yacht, before sleeping on your bed of money, after doing a double gainer off the diving board in your Scrooge McDuck money vault.
Coffee Schmuck of the Week: Ajax Of All Trades, or, Throw Mama From The Drano
Jul. 28 | Jesse Vasquez Meet Jessie Vasquz, the man who took Dark Roast to a dark place. Police say on Sunday morning, Vasquez walked into Dallas Fire Station #752 and told one of the firefighters, “I just put poison in my mother’s coffee.” “He got some Ajax, some bleach cleaner, and poured it in the coffee grinds for her morning coffee”. According to the police report, Mr. Vasquz admitted he put the bleach in her coffee,...
Oslo: Tim Wendelboe’s Three Year Anniversary This Saturday
Jul. 27 | Moon Walk On Saturday 31 July (that’s how they write it in Europe) from 11am-5pm, Tim Wendelboe’s cafe in Oslo will be serving cheap drinks and kakkes to benefit a project in Kenya: All drinks are a minimul 1 kr. maximum whatever you want to pay. All the money goes to our drying table project in Kenya where we will fund the building of new drying tables at the Karogoto Factory at the Tekangu coop. Cool! Start saving your kroner now...
James Hoffmann & Katie Carguilo Bust Out The Summer Brew Method Slip n’ Slide
Jul. 27 | Summertime Coffee Porch Drinkin' Full immersion + filter + ice = Summer of Hoffmann! The idea with this is to brew double strength coffee straight onto ice. As the ice melts it chills and dilutes the coffee back to more normal strengths. Often this is done with pourover or filter brewers. The problem I had with this is that as you double the amount of coffee to your amount of water then it is going to be harder to properly extract it as you have...
Intelli in Seattle? When Zell Freezes Over!
Jul. 27 | Seattle? Zell no! Melissa Allison scored a coup with Kyle Glanville, Intelligentsia’s “Director of Innovation”, who spoke at liberty and denied any future plans for the Chicago industry titans to open up shop in Seattle. “I think putting a coffee bar in Seattle would be like putting a coffee bar in Rome,” he said. “Seattle coffee culture is very ingrained; it’s kind of like the paint is drying on Seattle...
Horror At Manhattan Starbucks: Man Leaps To His Death, Lands In Outdoor Seating Area
Jul. 26 | Horror! If you open up 16,000+ locations, this sort of thing is bound to happen: A 38-year-old man plunged to his death near a coffee shop in Manhattan yesterday, police said, after leaping from an upper East Side building just after 6 p.m. and crashing onto the outdoor seating of a Starbucks at First Ave. and E. 85th St. “How horrible!”, said Nancy Miller, 58. ”You’re sitting, having coffee,” she added. “You...
Scientists: Pregnant? Have a latte!
Jul. 26 | My baby wants a grande! Scientists. They love talking about coffee. Every week it seems there’s more and more new stories on the web and in print, with some fresh scientific proclamation regarding caffeine or coffee compounds or why drinking more or less than 3 cups a day is or isn’t good for you. This week’s info comes to us from WebMD.com, the C. Everett Koop of online med journals: Many pregnant women cut out caffeine the minute...
New Study: 10 Cups of Coffee Boosts Brain Activity
Jul. 26 | Coffee: Good For You In another “coffee is good for you” case study, researchers at Tufts University in Boston found coffee can “boost memory and the signaling essential to motor coordination.” The new data, presented July 20 at the Institute of Food Technologists annual meeting, showed that among elderly rats, the best results emerged after months of downing the human equivalent of 10 cups per day. “They weren’t hyper...
Some Like It Extra Hot: Marilyn Monroe Coffee Mosaic Breaks Record
Jul. 26 | Gentlemen Prefer Blonde Shots Australia. The people who brought us Emily Oak, Scottie Callaghan, and the Flat White (not really) have made a coffee name for themselves yet again. A team of twelve Aussies just entered the Guiness Book of Records for largest coffee mosaic, ousting the mark set in 2009 for a depiction of the Mona Lisa. For the record, we’d much rather write Marilyn Monroe coffee puns than concoct a bunch of Michaelangelo schtick. The...
