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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.
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...
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...
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...
Confessions of a “Former” Bitchy Barista
Jul. 11 | Lilo's Secret Message To Judge: Read Sprudge! In which Melbourne barista Meghan Lodwick declares herself to be bitchy, gives up coffee, drinks tea for a week, mellows out, and decides that caffeine is the devil, before eventually going back to coffee. By the end of the piece we’re left wondering if “former” sadly exemplifies a lack of self-awareness, or if she’s merely making a Lindsay Lohan reference. As I said, I make...
Obey eBay: Check Out This Awesome Coffee Kids Online Auction
Jun. 19 | The fine folks at Coffeekids.com, “a non-profit organization established to help coffee-farming families improve the quality of their lives”, have offered up a lovely online auction over at eBay. Yours for the taking: * multiple Behmor home roasters * Anfim Barista Coffee Grinder (“the chosen grinder of barista champions!”) * a dope premium coffee kit (including Hario V60, Escali scale, and Bee House dripper) * Kopi Luwak,...
WBC You in London: Right Then, Here’s Your Bloody Coffee Map!
Jun. 16 | Oy! Tally-ho, blokes and birds. Fancy a map to guide you ’round the tube to all of the hottest shoppes in London? Look no further, the queue starts here and leads you directly over to this fabulous WBC web guide. Expect a village green’s worth of preview content from us in the coming days, including information on competitors and an essential guide to the poshest parties, as we gear up for our trip to the WBC 2010 in London. Cheers! well...
Leighton Guest Blogs at DirtyCup: “Does The Roast Boast Most?”
Jun. 16 | Backwoods bloggers DirtyCup.com and noted UK gadabout Stephen Leighton have joined forces to worship at the squirming, writhing blog altar of our almighty King, the Internet. on a bicycle built for Tutsi I think that the roast style has nothing to do with the brew method of the coffee, nor do I believe that you should roast coffee differently for those different styles. I think I owe it to the coffee to let it be the very best that it can, if that...
World Barista Championship 2010 Competition Schedule
Jun. 7 | WBC 2010 This year’s competitors! Day One 8:47AM – Agne Dirsaite, Sviezia Kava, Lithuania 9:04AM – Mie Nakahara, Maruyama Coffee, Japan 9:21AM – Alberto Mavorga, ACEN, Nicaragua 9:38AM – Izabela Popiolek, Green Coffee, Poland 9:55AM – Manish Gurung, Café Coffee Day, India 10:12AM – Kenny Burssens, Dennis Burssens, Belgium 10:29AM – Syria Mwanza, Zebra Crossings, Zambia 10:46AM – Nikolav Litov,...
