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cleanhotdry.com has put together a collection of links to brewing techniques/guides for seven of the most popular home brewing methods. The website is beautiful in its simplicity, innovative and above all, inclusive. Coffee professionals as well as home baristas…

Ric Rhinehart, kingpin of the SCAA braintrust, made an announcement on Coffeed earlier this week: The team at the ECX is moving quickly to develop a solution for bringing specialty Ethiopian coffee to market that is a direct response…

Griffin, GA – Throwdown Royale at Safehouse Coffee & Tea Saturday, January 23rd The Tamper Review and Throwdown Royale will be on Saturday, January 23rd at Safehouse Coffee and Tea, 109 South Hill Street, Griffin, GA, 30223. The tamper…

Set your doomsday clock to 11:59. Put the kids in the bomb shelter. Call your mother. Things got SERIOUS today over on the Doubleshot Coffee Blog, in an all-but-shooting tête-à-tête straight out of Dr. Strangelove. Nick Cho, Portafilter poobah…

A glowing write-up of Four Barrel’s single origin espresso offerings from blogger Pat Riggs. The San Francisco roastery was recently awarded the prestigious 2009 Sprudgie Award for Best Café. The innovative single origin “front bar” was introduced during the…

From the CKBlog: This holiday season, Sweet Maria’s produced “The Unofficial 2010 Dogs of Coffee Calendar,” which was sold to benefit Coffee Kids and five other charities. The calendar has 15 full-color photographs of dogs from various coffee-producing regions.…

From bX Founder Matt Milletto: The reports from Haiti are devastating and I think it is a good time for all of us in the coffee industry to be extremely thankful for what we have and how supportive our…

From guest blogger Eleanor Wangstein The all-seeing, all-knowing Chairman Cho, one thousand year ruler of the Glorious Revolution of People’s Coffee Blog, has spoken yet again from on celestial high. He offers to you his most benevolent and wise…

From the Financial Times.com – Former child star Sara Gilbert offers us an oddly personal take on regional starbucks price increases. You may remember Sara Gilbert from her role as “Darlene”, the moody, sullen Daria-template middle child on the…

THIS JUST IN – Lorenzo Perkins (Cafe Medici, Austin TX) has just won the South Central Regional Barista Competition. Congrats to Lorenzo, Cafe Medici, and all the competitors and cafes represented at this year’s…

From the Specialty Coffee Association of America’s Facebook page: 2010 SCRBC Top Six Finalists (in no order): Clancy Rose Tyler Wells Isaiah Sheese Lorenzo Perkins Jonathon Meadows Aaron Blanco Congrats to…

Sprudge Hero of the Month Marcus Boni has outdone himself yet again. Wunderkind of the SCAA, Übermensch of the competitive circuit, Marcus has facilitated live streaming content from the SCRBC over on the United States Barista Competition’s official website.…

The SCRBC is scheduled to begin today in Austin, Texas. Unfortunately, the official United States Barista Championship web site hasn’t updated their schedules. The web site reads “Please continue to check back for more updated event information as it…

Sam Lewontin (@coffeeandbikes) in Seattle has written a fascinating post at the Slayer Espresso blog, in which he makes the following case:  Portland cafe culture is far superior to coffee life in Seattle, in terms of sustainability, style and…

Los Angeles based Intelligentsia-type Ryan Willbur is in New York City, and boy, he’s sure got a lot to say. I was just in New York myself, and I can’t understand why Willbur would have such a bug up…

Coffee blogger Daniel Humphries visits the Coffee Enhancement Lounge in Seattle, Washington and brews up Intelligentsia’s Gichathaini in a Chemex, pulling out explosive aromatics and flavors and videotapes the whole thing. Youtube! Coffee! Safety Dan! Daniel’s World of Coffee…