Tag Archive 'barefoot_roasters'
Posted by TheShot on 15 Oct 2011 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Barista, Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Machine, Roasting
As we last left our story, SOMA‘s ever-morphing Sightglass Coffee was glacially executing on its grand designs to become a major SF roastery and a spacious coffee destination. It had been over a year since we last walked among the spent heroin needles of nearby 6th Street, so much of our new Sightglass experience had [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, barefoot_roasters, brightness_bomb, coffee_roasting, espresso_review, four_barrel, laptop_zombies, probat, sightglass, soma, supermodel_cappuccino, third_wave
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Posted by TheShot on 11 May 2011 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Fair Trade, Foreign Brew
Here in SF, we’re sometimes way too busy holding our noses because a coffee shop doesn’t use Blue Bottle or Fair Trade certified coffee. (In our personal case, sometimes it’s just too few places that use Barefoot.) To put things a little in perspective, here’s a story today from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Police bust [...]
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Tags: barefoot_roasters, blue_bottle, coffee_choices, fair_trade, italy_coffee, napoli_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 25 Oct 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Foreign Brew, Local Brew, Roasting
This past weekend, Barefoot Coffee Roasters celebrated their seventh anniversary. While the San Francisco Coffee Wars have clearly overlooked the South Bay, we’ve frequently traced some of our favorite coffee experiences back to this small microroaster and their tiny chain of cafés. Besides their flagship café in Santa Clara, they have recently expanded to a [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, barefoot_roasters, brightness_bomb, coffee_roasters, cup_of_excellence, espresso_review, hario_v60_dripper, pour_over_coffee, probat, san_jose_cafes, san_jose_coffee, victoria_arduino
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Posted by TheShot on 06 Oct 2010 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Quality Issues
A viral video is going around these days on “The Coffee Wars of San Francisco”. It’s a bit tongue-in-cheek with its Ken-Burns-documentary-style humor — though that largely reminds us of how much Ken Burns can lull us to sleep like a bottle of brandy. While the mockumentary oscillates between the mildly funny and the painfully [...]
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Tags: barefoot_roasters, blue_bottle, four_barrel, frog_hollow_farm, james_freeman, ritual_roasters, verve
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Posted by TheShot on 21 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Fair Trade, Robusta
One of the long running jokes among the (these days: masochistic) fans who follow Italian soccer is that — at least according to the Italian sports media — teams tend to go from “crisis” to “crisis” several times in a given season. If a top-caliber team doesn’t win for two straight matches, sono in crisi [...]
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Tags: barefoot_roasters, coffee_beans, coffee_crisis, coffee_growers, coffee_prices, el_salvador_coffee, epicenter_cafe, fair_trade, global_warming, guatemala_coffee, scaa, Starbucks
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Posted by TheShot on 08 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Local Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting
The New York Times today published a piece on the Bay Area roaster land grab going on out East: West Coast Coffee Roasters Are Lengthening Their Reach – NYTimes.com. Ritual Coffee Roasters, Barefoot Coffee Roasters, Blue Bottle Coffee, and Four Barrel Coffee are each mentioned — lugging their roasting equipment over the Rocky Mountains and [...]
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Tags: barefoot_roasters, blue_bottle, coffee_bean_seasonality, coffee_roasters, coffee_rush, ecco_caffe, flat_white, four_barrel, intelligentsia, ritual_roasters, third_wave
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Posted by TheShot on 02 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Quality Issues
In the headlines today, Consumer Reports continues to explore the merits of ghetto coffee: Lack of excellent coffee blends: Consumer Reports | Reuters. Whereas before they chimed in on the McDonald’s vs. Starbucks debate — something we’ve always likened to a beauty contest between Courtney Love and Joan Rivers — this time their “expert” taste [...]
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Tags: barefoot_roasters, coffee_blends, coffee_quality, consumer_reports, press_releases, single_origin_espresso
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Posted by TheShot on 22 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Local Brew, Restaurant Coffee, Roasting
San Rafael-based Equator Estate Coffees has long been a major enigma for us. They have heavy distribution among high-end restaurants in town — and quite a few on the low-end. But despite the occasional accolades among tastemaker chefs, we just didn’t “get it.” Over the years, we sampled the espresso at well over 30 different [...]
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Tags: barefoot_roasters, blue_bottle, coffee_roasters, equator_estate, home_espresso, restaurant_coffee, restaurant_espresso
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Posted by TheShot on 08 May 2009 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew, Local Brew
This split café and to-go market is founded by Chef Charlie Ayers, famous for catering for the Grateful Dead (as evidenced by the large wall photo inside) and the initial food operations at Google. This place is his attempt to make his Google cafeteria “public.” It has limited outdoor table and picnic bench seating. Inside [...]
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Tags: barefoot_roasters, clover_brewer, espresso_review, la_marzocco, palo_alto_coffee, peninsula_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 23 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Beans, Local Brew, Roasting
Opening up in the latter half of 2008, this café may serve salads, soups, wine, and even light dinner plates, but don’t let that fool you: this is a serious coffee destination. Which is not surprising, given that Andy Newbom of Barefoot Coffee Roasters personally tipped us off to check this place out. Just a [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, andy_newbom, barefoot_roasters, blue_bottle, coffee_roasters, espresso_review, espresso_sameness, four_barrel, la_marzocco, ritual_roasters, soma, stumptown
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