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	<title>Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com &#187; Consumer Trends</title>
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		<title>Coffee liqueur: a little branding might do ya</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/03/blue-bottle-coffee-liqueur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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Thanks to a helpful reader who today pointed out this find to us: Just Bottled: “Firelit” Blue Bottle Coffee Liqueur &#8211; Ünnecessary Ümlaut. If Starbucks is good enough for the booze bottle, why not Blue Bottle Coffee? Apparently that&#8217;s the question asked by the folks behind Firelit, a new coffee liqueur made from Blue Bottle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York discovers decaf that doesn&#8217;t suck</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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On the continuing theme of New Yorkers being years behind on their coffee trends, yesterday the New York Times published an article on the improving quality of decaffeinated coffees: New Breed of Brewers of No Buzz &#8211; NYTimes.com. It is a slightly updated and expanded version of an L.A. Times piece we wrote about in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Is Finally Taking Its Coffee Seriously (no, this time they really, really, really mean it)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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A fine line exists between the point where you&#8217;ve truly arrived and the point where you&#8217;d like everyone else to believe that you&#8217;ve truly arrived. It&#8217;s analogous to comparing &#8220;old money&#8221; and &#8220;new money.&#8221; While old money supposedly maintains a low profile and doesn&#8217;t feel the need to prove their status, new money pulls up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Stumptown the New Starbucks — or Better?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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Stirring a bit of the coffee world today is this piece from TIME magazine: Stumptown Coffee vs. Starbucks: Portland, Seattle Rivals &#8211; TIME. If Josh Ozersky&#8217;s headline of &#8220;Is Stumptown the New Starbucks — or Better?&#8221; seems oddly familiar, it&#8217;s because his article conceptually (and shamelessly) recycled Ethan Epstein&#8217;s piece for the New York Press [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Return of the Coffee Middlemen</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/03/retail-roasted-coffee-aggregators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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Just when you think the profession of the coffee &#8220;middleman&#8221; was on its way out in this era of the Internet, in come a number of entrepreneurs trying to reintroduce them. What we&#8217;re talking about are consumer retailers that intermediate the sale of roasted coffee &#8212; with examples that include Citizen Bean, GoCoffeeGo (see Man [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trip Report: Caffeinated Comics Company</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/02/caffeinated-comics-company/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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Coffee is as universal a beverage as you can find in this country, and yet countless special interest groups seem to identify with coffee as it were their own exclusive thing. This identification may have a lot to do with a modern culture that values hype and hyperactivity &#8212; and associates that most with caffeine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yountville Espresso</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/02/yountville-espresso/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s the kind of statement sure to earn protests from many a New Yorker: some consider Yountville, CA to be the culinary capital of America.
An outrageous assertion? Not necessarily. At the heart of the Napa Valley wine country, Yountville is home to what many call the nation&#8217;s greatest restaurant in The French Laundry. It also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baristas gone wild: meet fourth-wave coffee</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/02/baristas-gone-wild/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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Today Salon magazine posted their take on this whole &#8220;Hey baby, what&#8217;s your wave?&#8221; coffee business: Baristas gone wild: meet fourth-wave coffee &#8211; Coffee and tea &#8211; Salon.com. We most appreciated that they wrote the article from a coffee consumer&#8217;s perspective. What often gets lost in this feeding frenzy of hyperbole is that none of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vancouver&#8217;s Caffè Artigiano tackles expansion conundrum</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/02/caffe-artigiano-expansion/</link>
		<comments>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/02/caffe-artigiano-expansion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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Today&#8217;s The Globe and Mail (Toronto) featured an article on the coming growing pains for Vancouver&#8217;s Caffè Artigiano: Coffee chain tackles expansion conundrum &#8211; The Globe and Mail.
For those unfamiliar, Caffè Artigiano still represents the best espresso shot we&#8217;ve ever had &#8212; produced by the hands of barista savant, Sammy Piccolo. Pulled in 2003, years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expansionist Consumer Reports again raids the ghetto coffee market</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/02/consumer-reports-coffee-blends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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In the headlines today, Consumer Reports continues to explore the merits of ghetto coffee: Lack of excellent coffee blends: Consumer Reports &#124; Reuters. Whereas before they chimed in on the McDonald&#8217;s vs. Starbucks debate &#8212; something we&#8217;ve always likened to a beauty contest between Courtney Love and Joan Rivers &#8212; this time their &#8220;expert&#8221; taste [...]]]></description>
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