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I am surprised that there has not been another blog post about this recent addition to the roasters here at Roaste, Brown Coffee Co. I know it seems like there is always a new roaster starting to sell here, but...

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I grew up in a coffee drinking family and have been drinking coffee as long as I can remember. That said, the coffee was never great, but it was never bad. About three years ago I decided to seek out...

As I was part of the job search group about a year and half ago now, I still get a lot of those emails from recruiting sites and other professional newsletters. Anyway, today in my email was a link to...

The Starbucks bar experiment National Public Radio said today as I was driving home that Starbucks is launching a (yet another) grand experiment.  They are going to start having beers and wine in their stores.   I confess I was...

/files/imagecache/image_230/files/EL_SAL_ORG_BOU-2T[1].jpg" height="163" width="230" align="left" border="0" />After having an absolutely wonderful El Salvador by Insight Coffee Roasters a few weeks back as I was visiting my in-laws, I had to get something to try and recreate the coffee that I had...

/files/u1580/KalitaPourOver.jpg" title="Kalita Wave" align="middle" height="375" width="500" alt="Kalita Wave" /> Recently I seem to be reading more and more criticisms of the "by the cup", one-off style of brewing that's making waves in cafes. Now, there are a lot of valid...

I posted a while back about the cart I was going to build for my espresso machine and a few have asked about its status.  I started it and in some sense did most of the hard work and then...

The Sweet Marias twitter account posted not too long ago the following: It's a very distinct revelation about the countries that grow our coffee, that persistent issues of violence, poverty, militarism, and other life-limiting factors are far more common than you...

It's so funny that people really get worked up about all sorts of things, I happened to be looking through a few online fourms this afternoon that I frequent and encountered a particular discussion that had kind of turned a...

Plumbing in – removing some of the mystery. I recently plumbed in my espresso machine and I had never really been around a plumbed in machine before except in coffee shops and there I never noticed the plumbing one way...

This is the seventh post on the coffees I’m working my way through. Up this time is Olympia Coffee Roasting’s Guatemala El Socorro Maracaturra roast (I’m glad I can just write this and don’t have to pronounce it). Also this...

The other day, at my school we had a seminar where a professor from other school came to give a talk about his research and refreshment was served during the seminar. Among the refreshment was the familar various types of...

A quick look at the Baratza Preciso.    I recently got the chance to take a Baratza Preciso for a spin.  This grinder falls in price between the Vario and the Maestro in the Baratza line up, but truth be...

One of things that continues to amaze me is that making good coffee is no secret, and has been known how for a long time. This evening while getting out the recipe from the Joy of Cooking circa 1971 I...

Yesterday,  I had a really close call with my La Pavoni lever espresso machine! What happen was I was in a rush in the morning as I have a really early morning class. I turned on my La Pavoni profesional...

We can all be thankful to have made it out of the dark ages of coffee. Believe it or not, but in the land that brought us Turkish coffee, it was at one time a capital offense to be caught...

/files/u5804/Aeroshot_front.jpg" width="500" height="373" /> /files/u5804/Aeroshot_unwrapped.jpg" width="373" height="500" /> Talking about caffeine kind of bores me. What I mean is that, while some dark corner of my brain probably recalls that coffee contains caffeine and reflexively craves coffee when I’m dragging...

I have had an interesting experience with this coffee from Paradise Roasters, India Sitara 100% Robusta. I believe this coffee could follow the arch of a good fling you have with someone, starts out great, one nasty incident, then it's...