March Madness! Cerrado Gold takes a brief moment from his busy schedule to make his NCAA picks. Whether your team becomes National Champions or not, if you go with the Gold, you'll win every time! /files/u33/March_Madness_IBC_0.jpg" alt="Cerrado Gold Wins"...
This is old news recently found. An article in the US News Health section back in 2010 referred to a study that tried to relate caffeine to sleeplessness in kids. http://tinyurl.com/3avb24l The study says that children under 12 are ingesting...
Good espresso should not be bitter, burnt or ashy. However, I seem to run across said espresso this week. After pulling numerous shots, drip, pour over and even a try at cupping, I can say without a shadow of doubt...
I bet most of you here have heard of the term coffee withdrawal before. If you are aware, caffeine is actually a type of mildly addictive drug, probably not that harmful in small quantity. From what I understood, it actually...
So, I’ve expressed in the past that I tend to prefer powders to syrups, but due to a combination of factors I’ve decided that perhaps I’ve given syrups the short shaft and that they deserve a second look. These factors...
First I want to start by apologizing for not having photos as I really wanted to document this little repair on my Preciso just to show how easily it was resolved, what I can do is direct you to some...
There are people out there that think Starbucks is the epitome of gourmet coffee. I need to learn how to live with this. Recently, I had a conversation with someone that went something like this:Me: Watcha drinking?Friend: Ah, it's the new...
Over this past week I gave my grinder a makeover. I took off its dusty grind-retaining doser and gave it a shiny new funnel. She, my Mazzer Major, has never looked better. Of course, I can't attest to the veracity of...
Traveling to the Colombian Coffee Belt is easy, safe and low-budget. One initial warning: Colombia is NOT what Hollywood depicts in its infamous movies, so if you think you will be traveling on dirt roads in a torn bus with...
What is known as the coffee belt in Colombia is a region in the central-west part of the country. As the Andes enter Colombian territory, it splits in two and one range continues north very close to the Pacific shoreline...
This past weekend I got a chance to visit a few coffee shops in San Fransico. I really appreciated my visit as it got me to compare my coffee to what I got there, it is a little hard since...
It had been quite a bit stressful for me lately with graduate school in general. There is less and less time available to do what I really enjoy the most. Less time available also mean one important change in my...
An interesting article but I am not willing to give up coffee (or caffeine) right now for a potential end of world zombie attack. Those around me need me to drink it! :) Even when I am having a caffeine...
I made a pot (with my electric perk) last night and transferred it to a thermal carafe as I always do. I then forgot to empty the carafe last night (I drank about half of it). To my surprise the...
I am a few months late to the party on this radio chat session that played out locally for me with a few "third wave" coffee owners in the Bay Area. The interview, which aired on the local public radio back...
It’s hard not to notice that “pre-ground” is a bad word in certain coffee circles. Without a doubt, this is mostly for good reason. Grinding your own freshly roasted coffee right before brewing it up is the way to go,...
Sometimes as a coffee drinker I can become a little... overly interested in market reports about the price of coffee. This is a self-interest motive because I like to get the most I can for as little as I can....
I have started to use the Nuova Simonelli Musica with the FloJet setup for a little bit and thought that it might be appropriate to give it a little review for those who might be in the same situaltion about...
Do you think it's because of the equinox/line of the planets, or simply because the bottom of the broom is wider than the top? Either way, we had a good laugh about it! /files/u33/IMG_0920_0.jpg" alt="Iron Brew Coffee- Social Craze" width="266"...
As I have mentioned in another blog entry, my wife is pregnant and so she tries to curb her caffine intake a bit and one of the things that she misses the most about not having coffee every day is...
So, something I like to do occasionally is browse Kickstarter for cool new ideas. Today I thought I might talk about a couple of the cool new ideas I saw today that apply to coffee. First up is Proper Coffee...
