Posted by TheShot on 09 Dec 2011 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew
We’d apologize for the lack of postings this past month, but that’s partly the result of good editing. The trouble is that we typically board up our windows and hide from most coffee blogs this time of year, as most become inundated by insipid annual round-ups of coffee gift ideas to help cash in on [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 31 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Foreign Brew, Home Brew, Machine
The coffee culture export trade is in high swing, whether it is Stumptown Roasters opening in Amsterdam or Blue Bottle Coffee following Intelligentsia‘s footsteps and invading L.A.: Drip Bar, a Mobile Blue Bottle Café | NBC Los Angeles. Yes, that last article cites the tiresome caffeine-riff cliché abused by many an unimaginative coffee writer — [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 12 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, Consumer Trends
This past week, most of the coffee discussion around the Internet involved the subject of caffeine. Talk about caffeine seems to bring out the worst in people. Too many act as if coffee and caffeine are synonymous and interchangeable — whether it’s scientific research on the effects of caffeine or some lame riff on coffee [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 13 May 2008 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew
The truth is out. What do die hard coffee drinkers in coffee-obsessed Australia really order?: Caffeine connoisseurs say lattes are the cream of the crop | Herald Sun. Yes, it’s the boorish latte. (And written by a boorish reporter: “Caffeine connoisseurs”?!? It’s been a while since we’ve seen the tiresome caffeine riff.) Of course we’re [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 06 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, CoffeeRatings.com, Consumer Trends, Home Brew
John Walker, a freelance gaming journalist in the UK, wrote in his blog today about his experiences giving up coffee — on doctor’s orders to relieve anxiety symptoms: bothererblog » Diary Of A Coffee Addict. I commented in his blog about my own experiences of giving up all caffeine for a couple of years back [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 22 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Local Brew, Starbucks
InsideBayArea.com published an article today by a self-employed writer (and cooking class instructor) who named some of her favorite coffeehouses around the country: Inside Bay Area – It’s more than just coffee — it’s a bowl for the soul. Yes, she unimaginatively resorted to the ever-popular, ever-tedious caffeine riff (calling coffeehouses “caffeine dens”). But she [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 21 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Roasting
The Northwest Indiana Times ran a story today on the growth of those freaks of coffee consumption, home roasters: Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com – Coffee Snobs Move on to Homemade Roasts. Home roasting has been around for a while. In fact, a long, long while. Its most recent resurgence has come about over the past [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 29 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew
It’s been a while since we posted a mindless mini coffee review for some low rotation corner of the country. So today we bring you a brief coffee tour of Tulsa, OK from the local university rag: The Collegian Online: Take a caffeinated tour of Tulsa. It’s a short list, alright. But the one notable [...]
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