Tag Archive 'wine_analogy'
Posted by TheShot on 15 Dec 2010 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues
Today’s Metro Pulse (Knoxville, TN) published a lengthy-but-interesting piece on Knoxville’s budding local coffee scene: Revenge of the Knoxville (Coffee) Nerds » Metro Pulse. The article includes plenty of common themes we’ve seen many times before — pour-over bars, direct trade, the wine analogy. However, the article succeeds by being non-judgmental while going beyond the [...]
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Tags: direct_trade, pour_over_coffee, tennessee_coffee, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 06 Nov 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Machine, Quality Issues
Lately we’ve been thinking about quality coffee’s current obsession with all-things-technology. While there’s arguably more science than art to making good coffee, the current climate seems to have pushed any art aside. It reminds us of civilization at the turn of the 20th century, when society held a common belief that technology was going to [...]
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Tags: clover_brewer, coffee_pods, coffee_tech, cup_of_excellence, le_fooding, siphon_bars, slayer_espresso_machine, Starbucks, superautomatic_espresso_machines, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 18 Oct 2010 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues
Today’s The Age (Melbourne, Australia) published a less-than-convinced article on the experimental fad of pairing coffees with a meal: Claire’s roast: Coffee matching leaves bitter taste. And Melbourne is a town that famously knows its coffee. For me, the lingering question had been whether the concept of matching food to coffee would work…and based on [...]
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Tags: coffee_blending, coffee_blends, coffee_pairing, fourth_wave, third_wave, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 01 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Machine, Quality Issues, Starbucks
Quick!: name a city that’s surrounded by the exquisite natural beauty of mountains and seas, with brightly painted houses that decorate quaint neighborhoods, with great food everywhere you turn, with a nearby wine country consisting of hundreds of vineyards and many nationally renowned restaurants, with hipsters who frequent farmers’ markets in transitional neighborhoods, with a [...]
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Tags: cafe_reviews, cape_town_cafes, cappuccino, coffee_cupping, ethiopian_coffee, flat_white, flavored_coffees, origin_coffee_roasting, peets_coffee, quality_standards, south_africa_coffee, Starbucks, WEGA, wine_analogy, world_cup
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Posted by TheShot on 05 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Fair Trade, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting
Saturday’s Chicago Tribune published a pretty good piece on Intelligentsia CEO, Doug Zell: Intelligentsia Coffee’s CEO talks beans – chicagotribune.com. While Doug gets a little loopy (our opinion) in abusing the ever-popular wine analogy for coffee — e.g., espousing such shoehorned ideas as coffee pairings — he’s been a pioneer and leader in areas such [...]
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Tags: barista_championships, coffee_beans, coffee_bean_seasonality, coffee_freshness, coffee_nazis, coffee_pairing, direct_trade, doug_zell, fair_trade, intelligentsia, peets_coffee, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 01 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Barista, Consumer Trends, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee
The Annual SCAA Exposition is upon us. This month — in addition to the usual gadget marketing, major sponsorship from suspect brands, and the U.S Barista Championship — the event organizers have added a new Culinary Track: SPECIALTY COFFEE ASSOCIATION ADDS CULINARY TRACK | Articles | Beverages. To quote the SCAA press release [pdf, 27kb]: [...]
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Tags: Barista, coffee_pairing, coffee_recipes, quality_standards, restaurant_coffee, scaa, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 02 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Fair Trade, Roasting
Just when you think the profession of the coffee “middleman” was on its way out in this era of the Internet, in come a number of entrepreneurs trying to reintroduce them. What we’re talking about are consumer retailers that intermediate the sale of roasted coffee — with examples that include Citizen Bean, GoCoffeeGo (see Man [...]
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Tags: coffee_middlemen, coffee_retailers, coffee_roasters, direct_trade, fair_trade, indirect_trade, roasted_coffee_brokers, wine_analogy, wrbc
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Posted by TheShot on 19 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Restaurant Coffee
It’s the kind of statement sure to earn protests from many a New Yorker: some consider Yountville, CA to be the culinary capital of America. An outrageous assertion? Not necessarily. At the heart of the Napa Valley wine country, Yountville is home to what many call the nation’s greatest restaurant in The French Laundry. It [...]
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Tags: coffee_chains, french_laundry, nespresso, restaurant_coffee, restaurant_espresso, Starbucks, wine_analogy, yountville_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 31 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew
This past year, The Atlantic magazine has been no stranger to the subject of coffee. They finish out the year on the topic of coffee tourists: Coffee Worth Traveling For – The Atlantic Food Channel. We’ve always used the phrase coffee tourist in a much more derogatory context — e.g., “kopi luwak is a gag [...]
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Tags: cafe_reviews, cafe_society, coffee_origin, coffee_tourists, kopi_luwak, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 27 May 2009 | Tagged as: Barista, Beans, Machine, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee, Roasting
We are not the only ones who have lamented the sorry state of restaurant coffee — particularly at some of the Bay Area’s finest restaurants. The San Francisco Chronicle made poor restaurant coffee a front-page headline as early as 1963. In some ways, the elevated coffee standards that exist outside of the restaurant world are [...]
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Tags: Barista, barista_training, coffee_origin, coffee_roasters, quality_standards, restaurant_coffee, wine_analogy
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