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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...

Twenty years ago the Philippines ranked third in world coffee production. Currently they sit at 76th in rank, quite a big slippage. The government is responding and seeks to hang a national economic recovery on the revival of the coffee...

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http://foter.com/img/photo/10/artsy-coffee_l.jpg" class="foter-photo" style="display: block; width: 100%" /> mcwaffle89 /Free Photos We all see the world through our experiences and interests. The things we know influence how we perceive and understand other things. Sometimes I forget that and it surprises me,...

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...

I was reading a recent blog entry from Jbviau talking about the packaging of coffee , he talks about how he really likes the bag that the coffee roaster Tonx ships his coffee in. As you can see below from...

It's dinner Chez Chamie again. Tonight, I had to use up the rest of the family pack of pork ribs from the coffee-glazed ribs the other night. There were only two of them and four of us and I have...

Getting just a little ahead of myself I may have a new contender for my favorite basket.  Intrepid blogged about how he had ordered the new HQ line of baskets from Espresso parts north west and that he seemed happy...

There have been a few posts on here about the great customer support that people have received, and I have to admit that I am right there with them in receiving some excellent service and I just wanted to highlight...

Espresso Machine Maintainance: Group Head One of the most important thing in espresso making is group head maintainance. Afterall, the group head is the site of the most significant action where by coffee grind are extracted by pressurized water. Thus...

http://foter.com/img/photo/10/day-39-every-brilliant-thing-my-fabulous-flickr-friends_l.jpg" class="foter-photo" style="display: block; width: 100%" /> Menage a Moi /Free Photos Can I start by saying that I love the way we talk about coffee here. I love reading about Wakenot's experimentation in search of perfect coffee, Scott's humorous...

The other coffee ingredient Coffee at its finest has only two ingredients in it. Those, of course, are coffee and water.  I decided to try to figure out exactly what kind of water was the best for pour over of...

Heads up if you are using a Tassimo capsule coffee brewer - there is a safety recall going on so you should head over to the Tassimo web site to see if your product is affect by this. From the...

This Valentine’s Day, hold the flowers and brew the coffee! If a recent survey is correct, coffee’s growing popularity has just played havoc with the age-old tradition and trust in flowers and dinner out as the way to win a...