Tag Archive 'third_wave'
Posted by TheShot on 03 Feb 2012 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Home Brew, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee
If you were to read it in the current Roast magazine article (from the Jan-Feb 2012 issue), India is a coffee consumer desert. This week TIME magazine wrote about the entrance of Starbucks in the Indian market as if to dismiss any prior coffee consumption there. But after spending three weeks in South India’s coffee-growing [...]
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Tags: cafe_coffee_day, caffe_pascucci, coffee_growers, coffee_origin, cortado, espressamente, india_cafes, india_coffee, latte_art, la_marzocco, peets_coffee, south_india_filter_coffee, Starbucks, third_place, third_wave
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Posted by TheShot on 01 Feb 2012 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Consumer Trends, Quality Issues
When Trish Rothgeb (née Skeie) first coined the term “Third Wave,” it was supposed to be about enjoying coffee for its own sake. But reading some of the articles posted about coffee in the popular presses lately, we wonder if any Third Wave is really more about purging heretics and enforcing an orthodoxy over a [...]
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Tags: coffee_orthodoxy, dark_roasts, french_press, light_roasts, pour_over_coffee, third_wave
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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 15 Oct 2011 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Barista, Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Machine, Roasting
As we last left our story, SOMA‘s ever-morphing Sightglass Coffee was glacially executing on its grand designs to become a major SF roastery and a spacious coffee destination. It had been over a year since we last walked among the spent heroin needles of nearby 6th Street, so much of our new Sightglass experience had [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, barefoot_roasters, brightness_bomb, coffee_roasting, espresso_review, four_barrel, laptop_zombies, probat, sightglass, soma, supermodel_cappuccino, third_wave
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Posted by TheShot on 16 Sep 2011 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Roasting
Today’s installment for comic relief Friday comes from a regular blog reader here (espressophile): New Coffee Concept Makes Roasting Obsolete | Roaster Project. This comic piece from the Roaster Project is highly buzzword-compliant (“fourth wave”, etc.). Part of its premise is that if third wave coffee is “barely roasted,” the next stage is to not [...]
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Tags: coffee_fest, coffee_roasting, customer_service, fourth_wave, green_coffee, third_wave
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Posted by TheShot on 03 Aug 2011 | Tagged as: Barista, Café Society, Quality Issues
Several months after we declared that coffee’s golden age is over, famed Illy barista-in-chief, Giorgio Milos, posted this in The Atlantic today: America’s Golden Age of Coffee: Remarkably Like Italy’s Past – Giorgio Milos – Life – The Atlantic. You might recall Mr. Milos ruffling a few New World coffee feathers last year in The [...]
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Tags: Barista, brightness_bomb, giorgio_milos, illy, italy_coffee, third_wave, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 01 Jul 2011 | Tagged as: Barista, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
Pardon the sensationalist headline. (Like nobody has ever done that before.) But here’s something from yesterday’s L.A. Weekly on Demitasse, one of the more anticipated new coffeeshops in the L.A. area, that questions/provokes some of the conventional coffee wisdom of the month: Demitasse Will Not Have Pourover Coffee + Other Twists on the Third Wave [...]
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Tags: brewers_cup, clever_dripper, clover_brewer, equator_estate, la_cafes, pour_over_coffee, third_wave
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Posted by TheShot on 03 May 2011 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Quality Issues
A couple weeks ago, a regular reader made a very relevant comment on our last post: “You have become very negative. When was the last positive post?” They were completely on target, and we have noticed this trend in ourselves for months now. (See: Coffee Commenter Archetype #10.) The reasons are worth a post here. [...]
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Tags: coffee_crisis, coffee_prices, fourth_wave, hario_v60_dripper, intelligentsia, pour_over_coffee, scaa, south_africa_coffee, third_wave, usbc
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Posted by TheShot on 11 Apr 2011 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues, Starbucks
This has to be one of the most clueless stunts we have ever seen anyone perform in the name of the professional quality coffee trade. Coinciding with the first London Coffee Festival, some ad wizards came up with the genius idea of having 100 UK baristas churn out a Guinness World Record 12,005 espressos in [...]
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Tags: coffee_quality, Starbucks, third_wave, world_record
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Posted by TheShot on 29 Mar 2011 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Local Brew
Growing up as a teenager, I always hated those “Battle of the Bands” contests. Because — despite my odd musical tastes, from the Dream Syndicate to Mötorhead, at a time when most teens wanted the inoffensive sounds of Huey Lewis & the News — I quickly learned that these contests were never about talent. They [...]
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Tags: best_coffee, cafe_reviews, coffee_blends, philz_coffee, pour_over_coffee, third_wave, wine_analogy
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