Tag Archive 'coffee_fest'

New Coffee Concept Makes Roasting Obsolete

Posted by on 16 Sep 2011 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Roasting

Today’s installment for comic relief Friday comes from a regular blog reader here (espressophile): New Coffee Concept Makes Roasting Obsolete | Roaster Project. This comic piece from the Roaster Project is highly buzzword-compliant (“fourth wave”, etc.). Part of its premise is that if third wave coffee is “barely roasted,” the next stage is to not [...]

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Coffee Fest, Seattle: Give me a ‘real’ barista contest

Posted by on 12 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Barista

Seattle’s Coffee Fest trade show ended yesterday. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer published an article announcing the winners of its “Millrock Free Pour Latte Art competition” (isn’t that a mouthful?): Artistic cup of joe brings home $5,000 prize. Top honors and $5,000 of prize money went to Layla Emily Osberg of Vancouver, BC’s Blenz Coffee — where [...]

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Vendors swap tricks of the trade, peddle their wares at Coffee Fest

Posted by on 31 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Barista, Consumer Trends, Machine

Sunday’s Seattle Times posted an article on the 15th annual Coffee Fest held there over the weekend: The Seattle Times: Local News: Vendors swap tricks of the trade, peddle their wares at Coffee Fest. Coffee Fest is an industry trade show, closed to the public, where the latest business wares and fads tend to come [...]

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