Posted by TheShot on 08 Feb 2012 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Foreign Brew
Some five years ago we wrote about the problem of espresso sameness in the SF Bay Area. At issue is the challenge for local communities to preserve a diversity of quality coffee purveyors. On that subject, today’s Washington D.C. City Paper posted an article on their city’s growing quality coffee monoculture: How Did Counter Culture [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 24 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Café Society, Foreign Brew
Yesterday, Washington DC’s local blog, We Love DC, posted an article on what they consider one of D.C.’s greatest coffee culture challenges: the survival of good independent cafés. To help remedy the problem, the post includes a few promotional suggestions for the area: We Love DC » Blog Archive » We Love Drinks: Coffee Culture. [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 23 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Beans, Foreign Brew, Roasting
Because there are only about three or four people who write any original content anymore — and millions of others who just copy them and each other (see: us) — the Washington Post joined in on the San Fransisco Chronicle‘s act (ROAST WITH THE MOST / A new generation of Bay Area coffee roasters pushes [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 15 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues
Over the past few days, a small coffee story in suburban D.C. has blown up to rather ridiculous proportions — virtually requiring restraining orders and U.N. troops to intervene. A brief synopsis of the affair can be found on The Consumerist: Murky Coffee: Coffee-Shop Threatens To “Punch” Customer In His “Dick”. The story involves an [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 25 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Fair Trade
In the mixed feelings department, the Washington Business Journal recently reported on Counter Culture Coffee‘s newest regional training center in D.C.: Counter Culture Coffee opens training center in Adams Morgan – Washington Business Journal:. As with Counter Culture’s other training centers, it is designed to educate industry wonks and general consumers alike on coffee flavors [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 01 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew
Elliot Roper wrote a bit of local criticism today about the local coffee shop scene in Washington, D.C.: DC Translates to DeCaf (INeedCoffee.com). By and large, he is rather unimpressed with the neighborhood offerings. His criteria not only include the quality of the coffee, but also the accessibility of the shop (is a car required [...]
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