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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 mentions [...]

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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, Café [...]

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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 (Gorilla [...]

Tags: david_schomer, duane_sorenson, james_freeman, ninth_street_espresso, nyc_coffee, quality_standards

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