Tag Archive 'intelligentsia'
Posted by TheShot on 05 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Fair Trade, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting
Saturday’s Chicago Tribune published a pretty good piece on Intelligentsia CEO, Doug Zell: Intelligentsia Coffee’s CEO talks beans – chicagotribune.com. While Doug gets a little loopy (our opinion) in abusing the ever-popular wine analogy for coffee — e.g., espousing such shoehorned ideas as coffee pairings — he’s been a pioneer and leader in areas such [...]
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Tags: barista_championships, coffee_beans, coffee_bean_seasonality, coffee_freshness, coffee_nazis, coffee_pairing, direct_trade, doug_zell, fair_trade, intelligentsia, peets_coffee, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 31 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Foreign Brew, Home Brew, Machine
The coffee culture export trade is in high swing, whether it is Stumptown Roasters opening in Amsterdam or Blue Bottle Coffee following Intelligentsia‘s footsteps and invading L.A.: Drip Bar, a Mobile Blue Bottle Café | NBC Los Angeles. Yes, that last article cites the tiresome caffeine-riff cliché abused by many an unimaginative coffee writer — [...]
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Tags: blue_bottle, caffeine_riff, chemex, coffee_culture, hario_v60_dripper, intelligentsia, la_cafes, la_coffee, melitta_bar, pour_over_coffee, stumptown
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Posted by TheShot on 03 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues, Starbucks
Today’s The Globe and Mail (Toronto) featured an article on the coming growing pains for Vancouver’s Caffè Artigiano: Coffee chain tackles expansion conundrum – The Globe and Mail. For those unfamiliar, Caffè Artigiano still represents the best espresso shot we’ve ever had — produced by the hands of barista savant, Sammy Piccolo. Pulled in 2003, [...]
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Tags: barista_championships, caffe_artigiano, coffee_chains, intelligentsia, sammy_piccolo, Starbucks, third_wave
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Posted by TheShot on 27 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting
San Luis Obispo County is not known for a whole lot, even among Californians. There’s Hearst Castle, Cal Poly in SLO proper, and the burgeoning Paso Robles wine growing region — or what the locals simply call “Paso”. But as is happening in many lesser-known regions around the country, SLO County’s appreciation for better food [...]
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Tags: four_barrel, intelligentsia, la_marzocco, ritual_roasters, san_luis_obispo_cafes, third_wave, wrbc
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Posted by TheShot on 23 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Machine, Restaurant Coffee
Esquire magazine named this place 2008 Restaurant of the Year (among new restaurants). The same Nov. 2008 issue also crowned Dominique Crenn, executive chef at SF’s excellent-but-underappreciated Luce, as 2008′s Chef of the Year. While L2O is a pretty fabulous restaurant, calling it the year’s best is debatable. However, there’s no question this is a [...]
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Tags: chicago, chicago_coffee, clover_brewer, intelligentsia, la_marzocco, restaurant_coffee, restaurant_espresso
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Posted by TheShot on 09 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: Barista, Café Society, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues
Oh, sure, it’s a rather frivolous promotional piece. Today’s Telegraph (UK) gives us a glimpse into how quality coffee is marketed in the UK versus here: Costa Coffee’s taster has tongue insured for £10 million – Telegraph. Whereas American coffee pros seem to go ga-ga at the altar of Q grader certification, the UK opts [...]
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Tags: barista_championships, coffee_marketing, costa_coffee, espresso_tasting, intelligentsia, uk_coffee, usbc
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Posted by TheShot on 07 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: Barista, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew
Yesterday’s Chicago Tribune reported on a curious coffee bar concept planned for Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea‘s latest location, currently under construction in Los Angeles’ Venice Beach. The concept includes featuring five different stations where five separate baristas personally attend to each customer, individually catering to their unique coffee whims: Intelligentsia plans a groundbreaking coffee bar [...]
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Tags: Barista, barista_bias, coffee_cupping, consumer_marketing, cup_of_excellence, intelligentsia, la_cafes, single_origin_espresso, Starbucks, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 26 Jan 2009 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Barista, Local Brew
Today’s Daily Californian, an independent student newspaper for the UC Berkeley campus, published an article on Berkeley’s venerable Caffe Mediterraneum: Historic Cafe Grounds For Coffee and Conversation – The Daily Californian. Sure, the coffee isn’t so great here. But for a place that is over 50 years old and is most often credited as the [...]
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Tags: barista_championships, berkeley, caffe_mediterraneum, coffee_history, intelligentsia, latte, wrbc
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Posted by TheShot on 31 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
The year 2008 wasn’t about to end without a couple of newsworthy coffee notes. First, we have Chicago’s Intelligentsia banning coffee urns at their Broadway St. mothership: Intelligentsia on Broadway banishes urn coffee | The Stew – A taste of Chicago’s food, wine and dining scene. Earlier this year, we reported on how they killed [...]
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Tags: clover_brewer, coca-cola, intelligentsia, vac_pot
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Posted by TheShot on 24 Oct 2008 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Quality Issues
Saveur is one among many “gourmet” food, wine, and travel magazines (as much as we hate that hackneyed 80′s word) — but with a specific focus on international cuisines. “Saveur” being French for “flavor”. Now whether “Saveur Sav” would be a clock-and-beret-wearing member of France’s answer to Public Enemy is still up for debate. (Oui, [...]
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Tags: 49th_parallel, counter_culture_coffee, gimme_coffee, intelligentsia, metropolis_coffee, panama_esmeralda, peets_coffee, sant_eustachio, stumptown, third_wave, wine_analogy
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