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Ok, so this isn’t really a coffee shop. But so what? I had an espresso there and it was unacceptably bad. I mean, ok, I get that everyone screws up a shot every once in a while. I’ve had bad...

So far I’ve been in Oklahoma City for a little over three months and I’ve been able to find only two really top notch coffee shops. Everyone wants something different when they go to a café; some people want a...

Living in San Fran I was constantly surrounded by excellent cafes and coffee roasters. I lived upstairs from a great café, across the street from another great café and a block away from the local coffee roasters. However, at the...

My first foray into serious appreciation of coffee included the purchase of a blade Bodum coffee grinder. With time, however, I began to realize the inadequacy of this device to making coffee with any real consistency; when using the blade...

I am really excited to be able to start adding to the breadth of knowledge here as ROASTe. I believe that it's nice to know a little background on whomever you talking with or reading in this case, i.e. I...

Hello all, this is my first blog entry and I thought I would share some math I did a few weeks ago regarding the savings associated with buying coffee online as opposed to your local coffee house/fast food joint. First...

I am torn between to grinders – the Baratza Preciso and the Baratza Vario. Both grinders have many fans and a few detractors. I like the simplicity of the Preciso compared the Vario. I do not think I would have...

  /files/u14732/traditional.jpg" align="middle" height="302" width="190" />   I love cold brew. So much in fact, that I've made finding interesting coffees like Malabar and Rwandan and blending them together to brew a habit. So many coffees that I decided to...

Note: The irony of writing a blog post on how caffeine can be addictive and debating the merits of coffee while feeling the effects of three cups of coffee (and a Red Bull) is not lost on me. It’s said...

The very first grinder I used at home was an impulse buy I made just a few days after buying a French press: a Bodum blade grinder. It was cheap, it looked cool, and I felt like a suave sophisticated...

The French press is, for me and I’m sure for many others, the first foray into making “culinary coffee.” What I mean when I say Culinary Coffee is coffee brewed with careful consideration and in such a way as to...

When it comes to coffee, Pittsburgh is…unique. A blue collar working class town that’s been inundated with nerdy, techy, savvy 20 something’s (like myself) that have lived elsewhere, came to Pittsburgh for work or school (I came for my MBA) ...

The press is filled with stories about the amazing health benefits associated with the consumption of coffee. But for many years, people assumed that tea was the healthy hot beverage. So Fox News asked the question to “Medicine Hunter” Chris...

What I am drinking now – aka what am I drinking now?  I would love to write a what I am drinking now post but alas I do not know the answer so I cannot do that. You might think...

The vibe in the San Francisco coffee scene when I was living there was very special and unlike anything I’d ever experienced before. People just…cared. They cared about the mugs they used (the fact that they would actually serve coffee...

After spending some time as an unhappy public accountant I thought it was time for a change; I decided to move from Boston to San Francisco. This was a very exciting time for me, and led me to some pretty...

I grew up in Boston; this means that my first taste of coffee was not at home, it wasn’t at a “third wave” coffee shop, it wasn’t even at a Starbucks. No, my first taste of coffee was a “medium...

This morning I did not wake up early enough to grind some of my fresh beans from Elemental Coffee roasters in my Hario Skerton grinder and brew it in my Clever Coffee Dripper (reviews for all these gadgets coming soon.)...

Vintage Timeless Coffee is a café in Edmond Oklahoma, a small town adjacent to Oklahoma City. I like this place, but I will admit that its more because of the vibe I get from it than from the coffee. I...

This is the first of many blog entries I hope to make about my views on coffee, my experiences drinking coffee, and my experiences with coffee resulting from moving around the United States. One thing I’ve learned is that coffee...

Cool tool report The Thermapen from Thermoworks. One of the keys to steaming milk properly, perhaps the most important key is figuring out what temperature to transition from stretching the milk and then most importantly figuring out when to stop...