Posted by TheShot on 12 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Barista
Seattle’s Coffee Fest trade show ended yesterday. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer published an article announcing the winners of its “Millrock Free Pour Latte Art competition” (isn’t that a mouthful?): Artistic cup of joe brings home $5,000 prize.
Top honors and $5,000 of prize money went to Layla Emily Osberg of Vancouver, BC’s Blenz Coffee — where I [...]
Posted by TheShot on 05 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew, Roasting
From yesterday’s Vancouver Sun, the praise is rolling in for Vancouver’s 49th Parallel Roasters, a new coffee destination established by Vince and Mike Piccolo (the former of Caffè Artigiano fame): Vancouver’s new cafe wins best coffee in region.
Just don’t ask what Krups is doing as self-appointed tastemakers of good espresso via the annual Krups Kup [...]
Posted by TheShot on 14 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Foreign Brew, Roasting
Today’s Globe and Mail (Canada) reported on the arrival of the $15-a-cup (CAN$) Hacienda la Esmeralda Especial at Vancouver’s Caffè Artigiano: globeandmail.com: Pay up and smell the coffee. (Kopi luwak pretenders, take notice.)
The Panamanian coffee won the 2007 Roasters Guild Cupping competition at the 2007 SCAA annual conference. The coffee was sold in an online [...]
Posted by TheShot on 21 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Barista, Quality Issues
Knowing the difference between a good and bad espresso can be a curse to many a former barista. Or so says a former barista in today’s Georgia Straight, a popular Vancouver free weekly: Straight.com Vancouver | Best Eating | Locals have much to learn about espresso.
The author writes that, “The espresso, as it is pouring [...]
Posted by TheShot on 30 Mar 2006 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Starbucks
Some people I know refuse to “speak Starbucks”. Sure, they have coffee beverages that come in a venti size — even if that literally means “twenty” in Italian (and not as in “twenty trips to the bathroom”). And if you order a latte in Italy, you would get a glass of milk — its literal [...]
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