Posted by TheShot on 28 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Café Society, Local Brew, Machine, Roasting
With little fanfare, last week Four Barrel Coffee finally graduated out of the ranks of the Malaysian street food experience and opened up its formal café space. So this week we paid a visit to check out the new digs — and update our espresso review. (See: our previous Four Barrel Coffee Trip Report.) Last [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 13 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Beans, Foreign Brew, Roasting
Weren’t we just saying that there are only about three or four people with original story ideas? Sure enough, this time it’s the New York Times that recycled the same local roasters story idea that has already been once around the San Francisco Chronicle and the Washington Post in recent months: Specialty Coffee Roasters Brew [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 23 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Beans, Fair Trade, Foreign Brew
Tacoma’s The News Tribune published an unusually lengthy bio piece today on Stumptown Coffee Roasters owner and founder, Duane Sorenson: Coffee’s benevolent Mr. Bean | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA. One of the big, early supporters of SF’s Ritual Coffee Roasters, Duane is quite a famous character in the industry. Among many other things, the article [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 21 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew
Over the past couple of years, San Francisco has undergone something of a revolution in great espresso. Although the quality revolution has yet to trickle down to the typical corner café, great changes have taken place at the upper eschelon. At the forefront of this revolution is a troika of relative newcomers: Blue Bottle Coffee, [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 18 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Quality Issues
Today the New York Sun published a nice introductory article on “Good Coffee 101″ — underscoring how the art and science of quality coffee is fast approaching territory once familiar to only wine connoisseurs. As I’ve referenced before, the coffee quality in New York City is seriously unbefitting a city of its size and stature [...]
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