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Today the SF Chronicle posted an impressively long article on the state of quality coffee roasting in the Bay Area: ROAST WITH THE MOST / A new generation of Bay Area coffee roasters pushes the perfect cup to the next level. It’s a remarkable piece, given its breadth. It lightly touches on everything from the [...]

Tags: alfred_peet, blue_bottle, clover_brewer, coffee_roasters, coffee_roasting, fourbarrelcoffee, peets_coffee, probat, ritual_roasters, single_origin_espresso, stumptown, third_wave

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We’re more than a bit late with the news here, but a hearty and well-deserved congratulations to Kyle Glanville of LA’s Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea for winning the 2008 U.S. Barista Championship (USBC): 2008 US Barista Champion « The Official 2008 SCAA Conference Blog.
Proving the West is Best, and giving us some minor trash-talking rights, [...]

Tags: barista_championships, coffee_marketing, coffee_pods, handpresso, kyle_glanville, red_espresso, scaa, third_wave

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As we hinted in a previous post, San Francisco magazine just published Josh Sens’ story on the more recent evolution of San Francisco’s local coffee scene in its most recent issue: A new buzz | San Francisco online. (There’s even an article featuring CoffeeRatings.com: The coffee bard | San Francisco online.)
The article features Coffee Bar, [...]

Tags: blue_bottle, caffeine, coffee_bar, decaf_coffee, folgers, ritual_roasters, third_wave, trouble_coffee

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While I’ll be checking out Barista Coffee in India, Minneapolis will be hosting this year’s U.S. Barista Championship during the SCAA conference this weekend.
Yesterday, the host city’s hometown paper, the Star Tribune, published a rather lengthy article on the event: The great barista battle is brewing. It’s a story that’s been covered dozens, if not [...]

Tags: Barista, barista_championships, caribou_coffee, krups, quality_standards, scaa, Starbucks, third_wave

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The return of baseball also marks the return of a popular form of that “North vs. South” rivalry — with San Franciscans channeling their hate for L.A. through the sport, and L.A. being, well, mostly oblivious. Last weekend, we witnessed that rivalry expressed through espresso — with San Francisco’s Chris Baca edging out the formidable [...]

Tags: cafe_reviews, clover_brewer, la_cafes, la_coffee, nyc_coffee, third_wave, wine_analogy

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Previously, we had written about Coffee Bar when it was still under construction. It has since opened on the longest night of the year, December 21 — with limited initial fanfare, as the partners first wanted to iron out some of the kinks that naturally come with opening a new space. And it is a [...]

Tags: acf_cups, barista_magazine, espresso_review, faema, mr_espresso, nuova_point, potrero_hill, single_origin_espresso, third_wave

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Props to the blog wcuk for one of the more thought-provoking posts I’ve read in a while: The Rise of Yuppie Foods « wcuk. It concerns the question of whether the diversification and specialization of common consumable staples — from coffee to wine to chocolate to the restaurants where we eat — is driven less [...]

Tags: 4_dollar_coffee_myth, cafe_customers, coffee_marketing, flavored_coffees, revelation_espresso, third_wave, wine_analogy

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Yesterday Atlanta’s The Sunday Paper published an article on Batdorf & Bronson, an artisinal coffee roaster in Olympia, WA who supplies a number of top-rated restaurants in the Atlanta area, as well as cafés and retailers such as Whole Foods Market: 05/06/07 FOOD: Zen and the art of coffee roasting > SundayPaper.com > Current Articles. [...]

Tags: atlanta, celebrity_chefs, marco_pierre_white, michelin_ratings, restaurant_coffee, third_wave

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This week’s The Brooklyn Paper published an article on espresso quality standards and their general absence in the fine borough, interviewing noneother than Third Wave pulpit banger, Nick Cho: The Brooklyn Paper: Coffee guru espresses his disgust.
Nick discusses the “seafoam problem” with cappuccinos, which he describes as, “When the milk is over-steamed, the bubbles get [...]

Tags: cappuccino, milk_frothing, nick_cho, third_wave

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Oh, the twist of fate. The utter irony of it. PF.net’s Nick Cho must either be pulling his hair out or laughing his pehookies off with this one.
The Lowell Sun, of Lowell, MA, published an article today on a new “third wave” (gag, cough, spew) coffee house that’s moved into town: Lowell Sun Online - [...]

Tags: nick_cho, third_wave

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