Once again, I had to share a video that made me laugh. These guys from an Italian machine shop had to deal with an electrical outage when coffee break time rolled around. Sometimes ingenuity pays off really well. Sometimes... see...
I have been really enjoying the posts that others have placed with the voting widget, so I thought I would put one up. That was fun so I decided to go for broke and put up another today. What I...
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6822945943_ce85032f50_m.jpg" align="left" hspace="5px" height="180" width="240" alt="Coffee syrup" /> Inspired by Avarsefi's recipes for vanilla and autumn spice syrups, I figured I'd add my own smoky coffee syrup recipe to the collective blog cookbook. I originally worked this one up to...
I have been experimenting with the syphon coffee maker in the past two week (http://www.roaste.com/CoffeeBlogs/sontondaman/My-Approach-Siphon-Coffee-... ) or so and I think I might have reached a little road block or so. In the first few tries or so, I made...
Another of my syrup recipes which I make for my wife and guests. Well, two (sort of). This time it is especially easy. In fact it probably should have come before the post on my autumn spice recipe. This is...
I was out today at a coffee shop and picked up at random a bag of coffee, and did a quick check of the roast date before I bought it. It was roasted on the 31st of January and for...
I have a friend who lives in North Carolina, but is originally from Michigan and she was lamenting to me that she did not understand why every state had famous great roasters except she had never heard of any great...
Chamie’s recent post about beautiful espresso machines got me thinking about what kinds of machines were out there if we just focused on looks. http://www.roaste.com/CoffeeBlogs/Chamie/Another-Pretty-Machine One of the cooler ones I found was the space age looking Saeco Etienne Louis...
Today morning, after rushing out of the door, I have done it again! Yes, just a week earlier, I leaved the Pavoni on acidently for an extended amount of time and today, I did that also. Thankfully, no damage was...
Did you know that green coffee beans are trading near their 16-year high? Here's all the gory details in a spreadsheet from the International Coffee Organization. For instance, in 1998 a blended pound of green beans from around the world...
We are told time and again that fresh coffee is what you need to get good results and anything less is pretty much unacceptable. This line of thinking was really prevelant in a recent discussion that i read and was...
A week and three days ago I sold my grinder expecting to receive its replacement shortly thereafter. Around the same time, unbeknownst to me, Baratza was in the middle of a shortage on the Vario I ordered two weeks prior....
When I first started out my espresso journey, the first coffee that I tasted was a Starbucks brand ground coffee, that was advertised as X-tra bold and smooth. At that times, I thought it was pretty good and it has...
Storing beans – also known as the poor man’s food saver. My wife suggested this post because she has a skill that she is very proud of and she is quite good at it. She is fantastic at vacuum packing...
We wanted to let everyone know that we have finally received our replacement coffee for Deep Cello Black Tie™ Decaf. And it's really good news! Start thinking about a genuine Ethiopia Sidamo Natural Process coffee water process decaf. This...
It has been a long time since anything was posted, here. Forgive me, please, faithful readers. I missed several things worth writing back (like the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival and the new Kona Barista Jam) but I just couldn't make...
I live very close to San Franciso just on the other side of bridge almost, and monthly I get 7x7 SF. It's a magazine just highlighting things happening in the city, and since San Francisco has a pretty vibrant coffee...
Roaste.com strikes again with exceptional customer service. I like blogging about great customer service because it is so rare and makes you feel so good when you get it, and it usually happens exactly when things are not going well...
For the longest time I remained ignorant of quality coffee found beyond the espresso world. This was my own doing, I had shunned it all because of so many bad experiences at the hands of others. Well, one day at...
The "Funky Town" Demo from Presso on Vimeo.Pretty machines are a weakness of mine, and this one is one pretty machine. I don't know how I've missed seeing the Presso up till now, but I made up for my oversight...
