http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2006/02/san-francisco-magazine/ Rants and Raves on Espresso Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:22:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2006/02/san-francisco-magazine/#comment-456 Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Personal History: My Two-Year Journey Into the Caffeine Desert Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:25:16 +0000 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/?p=87#comment-456 [...] In the end, the caffeine angle is an amusing one — given that espresso, my coffee beverage of choice, is one of your better options. Culturally, at least in America, we errantly behold espresso as if it were an intravenous drip of pure caffeine. Writers and editors constantly riff on espresso as a euphemism for the most potent infusion of caffeine your veins can handle. Pulling an all-nighter? Six cups of coffee won’t do, but six espressos will keep you awake from now until Christ’s second coming. (For example, last year, San Francisco magazine even resorted to calling me a “caffeinista”.) Yet if made properly — i.e., without all the water-soluble muck that comes tumbling out into your typical over-extracted American espresso — it has less caffeine than your average drip coffee. [...] [...] In the end, the caffeine angle is an amusing one — given that espresso, my coffee beverage of choice, is one of your better options. Culturally, at least in America, we errantly behold espresso as if it were an intravenous drip of pure caffeine. Writers and editors constantly riff on espresso as a euphemism for the most potent infusion of caffeine your veins can handle. Pulling an all-nighter? Six cups of coffee won’t do, but six espressos will keep you awake from now until Christ’s second coming. (For example, last year, San Francisco magazine even resorted to calling me a “caffeinista”.) Yet if made properly — i.e., without all the water-soluble muck that comes tumbling out into your typical over-extracted American espresso — it has less caffeine than your average drip coffee. [...]

]]> http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2006/02/san-francisco-magazine/#comment-45 TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Trip Report: Coffee to the People Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:58:46 +0000 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/?p=87#comment-45 [...] I was thwarted again, as it was closed with signs saying “We are training hard for the U.S. Barista Competition — wish us luck!” Almost as strange was seeing CoffeeRatings.com posted in every window on print-outs of this month’s San Francisco magazine article. [...] [...] I was thwarted again, as it was closed with signs saying “We are training hard for the U.S. Barista Competition — wish us luck!” Almost as strange was seeing CoffeeRatings.com posted in every window on print-outs of this month’s San Francisco magazine article. [...]

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