Espresso News and Reviews – TheShot.coffeeratings.com

Two articles in the news yesterday highlighted a bit of our thinking about a major divide in coffee formats: espresso and filter coffee. The Puget Sound Business Journal interviewed the sometimes-controversial Illy man, Giorgio Milos: Illy’s master barista challenges us to take a fresh look at Starbucks, Tully’s | Puget Sound Business Journal. The other [...]

Tags: coffee_consumption, coffee_sizes, filter_coffee, overextraction, pour_over_coffee, Starbucks, tullys_coffee

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Yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald published a curious fad-contrarian article under the subhed of “Espresso lovers are fighting the siphon and filter revolution”: Shots fired in retaliation. Now the idea of a “siphon and filter revolution” is still a bit silly to us, given that siphon brewing has been around since the 1830s and filter coffee [...]

Tags: chemex, coffee_fads, filter_coffee, london_cafes, penny_university, square_mile_roasters, vac_pot

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Opening this past Thursday (April 2, 2009) after a long wait for Blue Bottle to expand the production of their roasting operations, this café technically marks the third and fourth Blue Bottle stations in operation at the Ferry Building Marketplace on a busy weekend. But this is the first with more permanent (i.e., no cart) [...]

Tags: acf_cups, blue_bottle, coffee_kiosks, espresso_review, ferry_building, filter_coffee, gibraltar, la_marzocco, mirage, nuova_point

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At CoffeeRatings.com, we believe that what the end consumer experiences is what matters most, regardless of who is behind the results. But often the story about coffee becomes more of a story about people. Rodger’s Coffee & Tea is a good example of this — where knowing a little of the back story helps provide [...]

Tags: coffee_freshness, coffee_roasters, coffee_roasting, espresso_review, filter_coffee, mission, philz_coffee, synesso, third_wave

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One definition of “overly ambitious” is attempting to write an article about the relationship between coffee and a pluralistic nation of over 1.1 billion people. Compounding this is the nature of India itself — where not only can you find evidence of just about everything, but for everything you find to be true you will [...]

Tags: agra, chai, coffee_chains, delhi, filter_coffee, india_cafes, india_coffee, madras_coffee, malabar, Robusta, taj_mahal

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Having a wife who runs her own private supper club (for which I am the front-of-the-house/”beverage guy”), I’ve been known to occasionally read the goings-on in the food world. This week, my wife introduced me to a post from a renowned food writer, Michael Ruhlman, who recently wrote about the virtues of percolator coffee: ruhlman.com: [...]

Tags: drip_coffee, filter_coffee, food_savant-coffee_idiot, michael_ruhlman, mr_coffee, percolator, restaurant_coffee, thomas_keller

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Philz Coffee presents CoffeeRatings.com with something of a dilemma. Things were a little more straightforward when Philz offered espresso — the basic yardstick for all the ratings on this site. And the 18th St. Philz (since closed) rated among the worst 10% espresso purveyors in the entire city. It practically takes effort to be that [...]

Tags: blue_bottle, coffee_blends, filter_coffee, philz_coffee, revelation_espresso, Starbucks, tullys_coffee

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