Tag Archive 'filter_coffee'

Percolator Love: Or, Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

Posted by TheShot on 16 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Home Brew, Machine, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee

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: [...]

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Trip Report: Philz Coffee @ China Basin

Posted by TheShot on 11 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting

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 [...]

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