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July 23, 2010 Category: Australia, California, Canada, Norway, San Francisco, United Kingdom, United States, Vancouver, event Tags: 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters, Barefoot Coffee Roasters, Black Cat Espresso, Bolivia coffee, Bolivia Mondo Novo, coffee, coffee cupping, coffee review, Colombia coffee, Colombia Finca La Florida, Colombia La Esperanza, Colombia La Orquidea, Colombia Norbey Sancho, Costa Rica Cerra Paldo, Costa Rica coffee, Costa Rica Finca Roblas, Costa Rica Herbezu Honey, Costa Rica La Mirella Honey, Ecco Caffe, Ethiopia coffee, Ethiopia Yergacheffe, Four Barrel Coffee, Home Barista, Honduras Cielito Lindo, Honduras coffee, Honduras La Tortuga, Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea, Kenya coffee, Kenya Handege, Kenya Kangocho, Kenya Kangunu, Kenya Karimikui, Kenya Kiunyu, Kenya Mtaro, Kenya Tegu, Kenya Thiriku, Mecca Espresso, Olympica Coffee Roasting Company, Panama coffee, Panama Esmeralda Geisha, rating coffee, Ritual Coffee Roasters, Square Mile Coffee Roasters, Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Tim Wendelboe What I’m not attempting to do
It’s not entirely clear where the right place is to begin when discussing the coffee cupping event I attended last Saturday. I’d like not to spend time discussing the pros and cons of coffee cupping as either a brew method, tasting technique or public relations tool. I’d also not like to [...]
July 18, 2010 Category: California, East Bay, Rating 2, Rating 3, United States, coffee@home, roaster Tags: Blackbird Cafe, coffee, coffee review, espresso, Grand Lake Farmers Market, Marin Farmers Market, rating coffee, Scarlet City Coffee Roasters
Beans: Scarlet City Coffees
Roaster: Scarlet City Coffee Roasters
Rating: see below
I first encountered Scarlet City Coffee Roasters in what amounted to something of a pop-up appearance for Blackbird Cafe when they set up shop for all of two weekends at the Grand Lake Farmer’s Market. After I tasted their espresso there I found myself in touch with [...]
June 8, 2010 Category: North Texas, Rating 3, Rating 4, Texas, coffee@home, roaster Tags: Abid Clever Coffee Dripper, coffee, coffee review, espresso, Evocation Coffee Roasters, Guatemala coffee, Guatemala Trapachitos, rating coffee, Spitfire espresso blend
Beans: Spitfire Espresso and Guatemala Trapachitos
Roaster: Evocation Coffee Roasters
Rating: 4- and 3
A not so secret perk of running a blog is that a lot of people like to send you stuff. The often unexamined aspect of this perk is that much of the stuff that people want to send you is crap.* Managing this blog has [...]
June 4, 2010 Category: Boston area, Massachusetts, Rating 4, United States, cafe Tags: Atomoic Coffee, Barismo, Boston coffee, coffee, coffee review, Ecco Caffe, El Salvador coffee, El Salvador Finca Matalapa Pino, ERC, espresso, Espresso Royale Caffe, Hi-Rise Bread Company, La Marzocco GB/5, Pavement Coffeehouse, rating coffee, Sonata 2, Sonata 4, Synesso, Todd Carmichael
Name: Pavement Coffeehouse (or here)
Location: 1096 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Roasters: Barismo, Atomic, and Rotating Guest
Rating: 4
It’s time to wrap up this series on Boston coffee with the new kid on the block.
Pavement Coffeehouse sits in Boston’s Back Bay, just a few blocks from Espresso Royale Caffe’s three locations. In fact, Pavement is the fourth cafe in [...]
June 1, 2010 Category: Boston area, Massachusetts, Rating 4, United States, cafe, roaster Tags: Barismo, coffee, coffee review, espresso, Ethiopia coffee, Ethiopia Sidamo, Ethiopia Yergacheffe Koke Cooperative, Hario woodneck brewer, Hi-Rise at the Blacksmith House, Homunculus espresso, Kenya coffee, Kenya Kagumoini, Kenya Kiandu, Kenya Kieni, La Marzocco GB/5, Linnaean St. Espresso, rating coffee, Sonata 4, Terroir Coffee Company
Name: Barismo
Location: 169 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, MA
Roaster: Barismo
Rating: 4-
No coffee tour of Boston would be complete without a stop by Barismo. Other than Terroir, which doesn’t have a coffee bar of its own, it’s hard to think of a local roaster that’s done as much for Boston area coffee as has Barismo. Barismo has been consistently [...]
May 29, 2010 Category: Boston area, Massachusetts, Rating 4, United States, cafe Tags: Abid Clever Coffee Dripper, Amanda Hesser, Barismo, Boston coffee, Cambridge coffee, coffee, coffee review, Costa Rica coffee, Costa Rica Helsar de Zarcero, espresso, Hi-Rise Bread Company, La Marzocco GB/5, Prime Meats, rating coffee, Ritual Coffee Roasters, Sonata 4
Name: Hi-Rise Bread Company in the Blacksmith House
Location: 56 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
Roasters: Barismo and Ritual
Rating: 4-
Earlier this week, the New York Times printed this review of Prime Meats in New York City. What is so striking about the article is that it takes exactly the same tack I started taking when I started writing this [...]
May 21, 2010 Category: Boston area, Massachusetts, Rating 3, United States, cafe Tags: Brazil Cachoiera, Brazil coffee, coffee, coffee review, Colombia coffee, Ecco Caffe, espresso, Northeast Regional Barista Competition, rating coffee, Synesso Cyncra, Taste Coffee House, Terroir Coffee Company
Name: Taste Coffee House
Location: 311 Walnut Street, Newtonville, MA
Roasters: Terroir and various guest coffees
Rating: 3+
Taste Coffee House fully embraces its coffeehouse moniker. Inside you’ll find a casual atmosphere, chalkboard menus, sandwiches and salads, (beer and wine) and a firmly loyal, local crowd. Taste lacks the slick sense of interior design that these days is so often [...]
May 19, 2010 Category: Boston area, Massachusetts, Rating 4, United States, cafe Tags: Abid Clever Coffee Dripper, Barrington Coffee Roasters, Barrington Gold espresso, Boston coffee, Cafe Fixe, coffee, coffee review, espresso, Ethiopia Amaro Gayo, Ethiopia coffee, Novo Coffee, rating coffee, Stumptown Coffee Roasters
Name: Cafe Fixe
Location: 1642 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA
Roasters: Barrington Coffee Roasters and Guest Roaster
Rating: 4-
Cafe Fixe deserves more than it’s about to get in this review given their commitment to well-prepared coffee and a decent array of brewing options, but there are times when my brain simply grows weary of writing clever descriptions of cafes [...]
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