Tag Archive 'stumptown'
Posted by TheShot on 09 Sep 2011 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Quality Issues
For this installment of comic relief Friday, we bring you the coffee critic wheel. You’re probably well aware of the coffee flavor wheel, which borrowed heavily from the wine aroma wheel in the wine tasting world. However, you might not be aware of wine vintner Janet Trefethen’s (of Trefethen Family Vineyards) Standardized System of Wine [...]
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Tags: 49th_parallel, brightness_bomb, coffee_review, flavor_wheel, kenneth_davids, santa_barbara_coffee, sightglass, stumptown, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 08 Sep 2011 | Tagged as: Beans, Foreign Brew, Local Brew, Roasting
Today’s New York Times reported on another chapter in this year’s ownership-change-for-funding-for-growth saga of quality independent coffee chains: Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea Asks a Friend to Help It Grow – NYTimes.com. This past May, the subject was Stumptown Coffee Roasters — generating quite a bit of angst among many loyalists who cried “sell-out!” This time [...]
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Tags: coffee_roasters, coffee_rush, ecco_caffe, four_barrel, intelligentsia, potrero_hill, stumptown
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Posted by TheShot on 29 Jul 2011 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew, Machine, Roasting
Shockingly, it’s taken us this long to make it to Portland, Oregon — considered by many to be ground zero (no café name pun intended) of American coffee culture. And if you’re going to start sampling the offerings in Portland, it only makes sense that you start with the legendary Stumptown Coffee Roasters. This despite [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, cafe_society, chemex, espresso_review, la_marzocco, mistral, portland_cafes, portland_coffee, strada, stumptown
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Posted by TheShot on 31 May 2011 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew, Roasting
It’s a good thing we’re no longer monitoring signs of the impending Apocalypse. But in perhaps yet another sign that quality coffee is at the end of a Golden Age, rumors today of a Stumptown Coffee Roasters buyout: Stumptown Sold Out – The Selling of Stumptown Coffee Roasters – Esquire. Unlike the article’s author (and [...]
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Tags: clover, clover_brewer, pour_over_coffee, Starbucks, stumpgate, stumptown
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Posted by TheShot on 27 May 2010 | Tagged as: Barista, Café Society, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting, Starbucks
We wrap up our brief series on Seattle’s espresso and coffee culture with a few observations. First, it had been way, way too long since our last visit. Twelve years in fact. Which is all the more ridiculous given the kind of coffee tourists we’ve become. It was 15 years ago that I attended graduate [...]
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Tags: Barista, cafe_organica, cafe_reviews, caffeine, caffe_umbria, caffe_vita, espresso_vivace, melitta_bar, pour_over_coffee, seattle_cafes, seattle_coffee, seattle_espresso, Starbucks, stumptown, synesso, third_wave, trabant, trish_skeie, victrola, zoka_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 24 May 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Foreign Brew, Machine, Roasting
This Stumptown outlet opened in 2007. It arguably first represented the Portland chain’s global ambitions. At the time, there was much consternation among Seattlites about an interloper in their heart of their Capitol Hill coffee culture (not to mention the Northwest rivalry that ensued). Stumptown even opened up roasting operations in town. But things haven’t [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, caffe_umbria, coffee_roasters, espresso_review, mistral, seattle_cafes, seattle_coffee, seattle_espresso, stumptown
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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 09 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Roasting, Starbucks
Stirring a bit of the coffee world today is this piece from TIME magazine: Stumptown Coffee vs. Starbucks: Portland, Seattle Rivals – TIME. If Josh Ozersky’s headline of “Is Stumptown the New Starbucks — or Better?” seems oddly familiar, it’s because his article conceptually (and shamelessly) recycled Ethan Epstein’s piece for the New York Press [...]
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Tags: portland_coffee, seattle_coffee, Starbucks, stumptown, third_wave
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Posted by TheShot on 27 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Local Brew
This is the kind of place that makes you proud to live in San Francisco. We knew we were in for a treat when we walked in, saw the black-and-red paint all over the space, saw the radio studio with its skull-and-crossbones banner that looks out over the café, and heard the DJ airing Motörhead [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, de_la_paz, espresso_review, mission, rancilio, stumptown, trouble_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 25 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Beans, Local Brew, Roasting
While revisiting Dynamo Donuts earlier this month, we quickly noted the bags of Four Barrel Coffee in the back. Like the Four Barrel Coffee mothership, Dynamo had been using Stumptown Hairbender to date — with rumors that they would switch over to Four Barrel once they got their roasting operations going. Four Barrel commenced their [...]
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Tags: coffee_blends, coffee_cupping, coffee_roasters, espresso_review, four_barrel, single_origin_espresso, stumptown
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