Tag Archive 'home_roasting'
Posted by TheShot on 10 Jan 2012 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Barista, Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Fair Trade, Foreign Brew, Home Brew, Local Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
Yesterday morning, KQED radio aired an hour-long Forum segment featuring a small round-table of SF coffee “luminaries”: SF’s Coffee Innovators: Forum | KQED Public Media for Northern CA. The panel included James Freeman, of Blue Bottle Coffee, Eileen Hassi, of Ritual Coffee Roasters, and an unusually quiet Jeremy Tooker, of Four Barrel Coffee. Much like [...]
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Tags: blue_bottle, caffe_mediterraneum, cortado, eileen_hassi, four_barrel, gibraltar, grinders, home_roasting, india_coffee, james_freeman, jeremy_tooker, laptop_zombies, latte_art, peets_coffee, ritual_roasters, Starbucks, third_wave
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Posted by TheShot on 02 Mar 2011 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Fair Trade, Home Brew, Machine, Roasting, Starbucks
Over the years we’ve read a lot of coffee articles. And ever since feedback forms became commonplace on the Internet, we’ve also read a lot of user comments on these posts. At least enough for us to identify 10 common archetypes among coffee article commenters on the Internet — analogous to the ever-popular coffee shop [...]
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Tags: caffeine_addiction, coffee_costs, fair_trade, home_espresso, home_roasting, media, pid, social_networking, Starbucks, travel_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 20 Feb 2011 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Local Brew, Roasting
Good coffee is not only a rare treat in the Outer Sunset, but it is often a rather uplifting social experience. (Though some will call this neighborhood “Central Sunset” or “Parkside”.) This adage remains true at this tiny coffee shop, which looks more like an old barber shop from the outside — save for the [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, clever_dripper, coffee_roasters, espresso_review, hearth_coffee, home_roasting, la_marzocco, outer_sunset
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Posted by TheShot on 29 May 2010 | Tagged as: Café Society, Home Brew, Local Brew, Roasting
Another installment in SF’s series of “espresso bars in strange places,” this one — open since 2009 — is located in a sort of gift shop. It’s a very small space identified by its bright green exterior, and there are a couple of small chairs for sidewalk seating. Inside there are mirrors, planters, birdcages, bath [...]
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Tags: espresso_review, home_roasting, inner_sunset, la_marzocco, nuova_point, ritual_roasters, sink_shot, yountville_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 17 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Barista, Beans, CoffeeRatings.com, Local Brew, Quality Issues
Frog Hollow Farm reserves a rather anonymous place in the retail coffee history of San Francisco, but it was a watershed for the coffee quality in this city. As much as we roll our eyes at the hackneyed and abused third wave term, by many definitions (theirs, and definitely not ours) this was SF’s first [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, best_coffee, blue_bottle, chris_baca, embarcadero, espresso_review, frog_hollow_farm, home_roasting, james_freeman, la_marzocco, nuova_point, peets_coffee, Starbucks, third_wave, verve
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Posted by TheShot on 05 Jan 2009 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Roasting
Just a few years ago, for a variety of reasons, we were avid and regular home coffee roasters. Today we still occasionally roast our own coffee at home, but we find far fewer reasons to do so — and we find ourselves doing it much less often. The reasons for this change are partly personal. [...]
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Tags: blue_bottle, cafe_bello, coffee_roasting, home_espresso, home_roasting, maui_moka, oxidation, prosumer, ritual_roasters
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Posted by TheShot on 23 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Barista, Beans, Local Brew, Roasting
If you love espresso, live in San Francisco, and don’t know who Thomas E. Cara is, well, shame on you. Although Caffè Trieste may be a historical West Coast espresso landmark, Thomas E. Cara goes back a decade further. Espresso first enchanted Thomas Cara while he was stationed in Italy during WWII. So much so [...]
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Tags: Barista, cara_and_sons, coffee_review, coffee_roasters, dark_roasts, espresso_review, gaggia, home_espresso, home_roasting, la_pavoni, mazzer
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Posted by TheShot on 21 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting
Today’s The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) posted an article on home coffee roasting: Coffee fans toast what they roast | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA. What I particularly liked was that they use the term I do for fresh roasted coffee: fresh baked bread. Too often, restaurants, cafés, stores, and, well, coffee drinkers treat roasted coffee [...]
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Tags: blue_bottle, coffee_freshness, coffee_roasting, home_roasting, illy, lavazza, oxidation
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Posted by TheShot on 03 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Machine, Roasting
Today’s Edmonton Journal published a primer on the more sophisticated home espresso setup: Getting Serious About Coffee. In other words, what do you do when your $100 home Krups machine isn’t cutting it — because the espresso it produces belongs in the same landfill where your machine will deservedly rot its final days? There’s an [...]
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Tags: cleaning, coffee_freshness, espresso_machines, grinders, home_espresso, home_roasting, krups, peets_coffee, rancilio, single_serving_coffee, Starbucks
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Posted by TheShot on 21 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Roasting
The Northwest Indiana Times ran a story today on the growth of those freaks of coffee consumption, home roasters: Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com – Coffee Snobs Move on to Homemade Roasts. Home roasting has been around for a while. In fact, a long, long while. Its most recent resurgence has come about over the past [...]
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Tags: caffeine_riff, home_roasting, wine_analogy
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