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Lately we’ve been thinking about quality coffee’s current obsession with all-things-technology. While there’s arguably more science than art to making good coffee, the current climate seems to have pushed any art aside. It reminds us of civilization at the turn of the 20th century, when society held a common belief that technology was going to [...]

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We published our first trip report for Sightglass last July: Sightglass Coffee, Version 0.3. Back then, Sightglass was a tiny espresso-serving kiosk at the front of a vast, 4,000-sq-ft space with a 14-kg Probat roasting operation planned to start in the Fall of 2009. We revisited Sightglass this week to see how much things have [...]

Tags: acf_cups, chemex, coffee_roasting, consistency, espresso_review, fourth_wave, four_barrel, la_marzocco, pressure_, slayer_espresso_machine, soma, third_wave, verve

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Today Salon magazine posted their take on this whole “Hey baby, what’s your wave?” coffee business: Baristas gone wild: meet fourth-wave coffee – Coffee and tea – Salon.com. We most appreciated that they wrote the article from a coffee consumer’s perspective. What often gets lost in this feeding frenzy of hyperbole is that none of [...]

Tags: Barista, cup_of_excellence, fourth_wave, slayer_espresso_machine, third_wave

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Today the New York Times Magazine blog posted a mini bio-piece on James Freeman of Blue Bottle Coffee fame: The Nifty 50 | James Freeman, Coffee Maker – T Magazine Blog – NYTimes.com. The story behind their “Nifty 50″ (did they hire a former 1960′s editor from Tiger Beat for that?) is to highlight “America’s [...]

Tags: blue_bottle, clover_brewer, coffee_roasters, gimme_coffee, hawaii_cafes, james_freeman, melitta_bar, nyc_coffee, siphon_bars, slayer_espresso_machine

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Recently I was approached by a writer exploring ideas for an article to be published by Wired in the UK. (This wouldn’t be the first time.) The subject line of his e-mail? “The Future of Coffee.” His goal was to put together a piece about the “vanguard of the coffee industry,” featuring “new and disruptive [...]

Tags: caffe_artigiano, coffee_brewing, coffee_innovation, coffee_tech, cup_of_excellence, david_schomer, fair_trade, kyle_glanville, la_marzocco, pid, single_origin_espresso, siphon_bars, slayer_espresso_machine, third_wave, usbc, wired_magazine

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The former One World Cafe needed a serious upgrade, and this is it. Gone are the beat-up furniture and odd house plants that made this space look like a medical marijuana co-op in aging neglect. The place now looks more like a sushi bar, with clean, angular lines, dark and solid colors, nicer wood floors, [...]

Tags: acf_cups, brightness_bomb, espresso_machines, espresso_review, slayer_espresso_machine, spro, verve, western_addition

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Thanks to a reader tip (which are always welcome and encouraged, btw), we were alerted to the opening this week of Sightglass Coffee in one of the danker parts of SOMA. Note that by “opening” we mean “unlocked” — and not much more than that. If this sounds a lot like the “modest” opening of [...]

Tags: acf_cups, blue_bottle, coffee_roasters, espresso_machines, espresso_review, four_barrel, la_marzocco, slayer_espresso_machine, soma, verve

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