The Reading Room

Because of the increasing chance for me to work as the Monday afternoon barista (a little more here), I spent a some time getting more training from one of the baristas that work at the shop. While I felt pretty...

Apparently, there are people who need to be reminded when to take a coffee break. Now there's an app for that. Caffeine Zone, a new app created by a pair of researchers at Penn State, keeps track of your caffeine...

I was curious about the unique flavor of Bossa from Deep Cello Roasters and how they suggested pulling the shots of it, so I wrote to ask.  I was quite pleased to get the following detailed answer from Justin Kagan...

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/files/u16346/DSC00183.jpg" height="300" align="left" width="225" hspace="10" /> I know there has been a lot of rave reviews about how good Cremina is and how great the shots it makes. You probably don’t need another post to convince you that it is...

So about three weeks ago I posted about the initial impressions I had with the Mypressi. Since then I’ve gotten swamped with work and haven’t had much of a chance to share anything else about it. So I thought I...

What we are drinking now – Chazzano French roast.  I blogged earlier about the Chazzano’s Papau New Guinea coffee that a friend gave me that I quite enjoyed.  She also brought us a bag of their French Roast.  It is...

I wrote about Antigua Guatemala on a previous blog and Gazy, from Hacienda El Porvenir in Colombia, commented about it. He said: “you are short on talking about colors. I've never seen such a colorful country as Guatemala”. He was...

In my very first blog post here last May, I focused on Orphan Espresso’s PHAROS as an example of the “pursuit of perfection” in manual coffee grinding. As well-built as the PHAROS appears to be, it was not designed for...

Recently I took a delivery of a used Nuova Simonelli Oscar from ebay;. Surprisingly the seller is a forum member and I normally had no problem trusting another fellow member. The caveat though, was that he was selling for his...

I was curious about the effect of coffee and or caffeine on athletics.  Once when I was younger I tried drinking a beer before playing tennis and I was shocked by how much it cut my endurance.  I was in...

I posted a few days back that I got a new scale, the American Weigh 2kg, and I have been loving it thus far as it's vastly superior to the 100 g pocket scale that I had before it.The biggest...

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So we had this cool coffee mug competition in the last couple of days on our Facebook page. Check out below what people have posted, so cool!! And the winner was Rebecca Hall Potter with the mug below: "My husband...

With the renewed interested in espresso baskets that has been brough about with Wakenot's recent aquisition of a 18 gram HQ basket from EspressoParts.com; I thought it would be a good time to give my general impressions that I have...

I was wondering who drank up all the CBTL espresso!Yes, the CBTL makes great espresso. And the cat is cute, but I haven't trained her to make me a coffee yet, but the CBTL Contata is practically easy enough for...

The other day, as was doing a routine search on my local craigslist.com ( I know, bad habit die hard!). Under the grinder search, I came up a perculiar post with the tittle "Brevetto grinder for sale". Flashing back to...

Happily, my new basket got here today.  It is an HQ ridgeless 18g basket from espresso parts north west.  I blogged about it and the free shipping sale they were having yesterday here but did not expect to get it...

I don't tend to go to coffee shops too often anymore. I don't live in a town with any great shops worth visiting often, but do leave near some cities with great shops. When I am in town I aways...

Rep Ron Paul is said to have a chance to win his first Republican primary this weekend in Maine.http://cv.ftranfield.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/files/uploads/users/u4/_official_Congressional_photo_portrait__2007.jpg" style="float: right; width: 220px; height: 276px;" />What are they drinking over at the Ron Paul Revolution camp?I don't know for sure...