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DoubleShot Coffee Company: More Espresso Arguments. I’m not in the coffee biz but I do involve myself in some coffee-related things, including barista championships (sensory judge at regional and national) and numerous discussions with coffee artisans. In other words, I’m nobody important. In a way, I “come from” the worlds of beer and coffee homebrewing. […]
Leave a comment | tags: arbitrariness, artifice, attitudes, barista championships, baristas, Beer Judge Certification Program, BJCP, breaking out, brewed coffee, camaraderie, Canadian Barista Championship, CBC, coffee brewing, coffee community, coffee consumption, coffee producers, collegiality, comradeship, conflicts, culinary institutes, debriefing, Eastern Regional Canadian Barista Championship, evaluation, feedback, French restaurants, hobbies, homeroasting, Iron Chef, judging, martial arts, personal attitudes, quality control, reality checks, specialty coffee, tensions, Third Wave Coffee, trip to origin, tudes, WBC, World Barista Championship | posted in amateurs, arrogance, Beer, beer scene, Beverages, blog comments, cafés, Clueing, Coffee, coffee scenes, comment-fishing, Communities, community-building, consumption, craft, cuisine, culinary, DoubleShot Coffee Company, espresso, Food, food and culture, food and society, food philosophy, French, geek crowd, geek culture, groupthink, homebrewing, Institutions, podcasts, ramblings, shameless plug, specialists, specialization, taste, tasting, wishful thinking
I bought the i-Roast 2 homeroaster: I’m one happy (but crazy) coffee geek.
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Went on radio to talk about coffee.
Leave a comment | tags: Café Myriade, Café Neve, CBC Homerun, Coffee, espresso, Montreal, Myriade, Neve, Third Wave | posted in comment-fishing, linkfest, Placeholders
The coffee world can learn from the beer world.
3 Comments | tags: Alex Scott, Anthony Benda, baristas, Bill Herne, Bridgehead, Café Myriade, Canadian Barista Championship, Cliff Hansen, coffee community, Eastern Regional Canadian Barista Championship, Vida Radovanovic | posted in advertising, advocacy, Alcohol, Beer, beer geeks, beer history, Beverages, brewclubs, brewing, brewpubs, cafés, CBC, Clueing, Cluetrain Manifesto, Coffee, coffee scenes, comment-fishing, commodities, communitas, Communities, community-building, consumerism, craft beer, craft beer culture, culinary, drinks, economics, Education, enthusiasm, experimentation, food and culture, food and society, foodies, geek culture, geeks, globalisation, glocalisation, grassroots, groupthink, hedonism, homebrewing, informal learning, innovation, knowledge management, learn by doing, linkfest, musings, openness, participatory culture, ramblings, restaurants, shameless plug, soapbox, social dynamics, social networking, sociocentrism, sophistication, Starbucks, success in life, taste, training, trends, trusting people, wishful thinking
[Old Draft] Turns out, this blend is much more flexible and much less finicky than I first thought. Just tried (June 22) a few shots on a LaPa EDL12 with pressurized portafilter. Though all my shots on this machine are severely underextracted, I get some nice high notes in the middle of the taste and […]
2 Comments | tags: Cuvée, Cuvée Coffee Roasting, espresso, Houston, Texas | posted in A, Coffee
As I prepare to move away from Texas (unforeseen circumstances), Texas’s coffee scenes seem to be going through an interesting phase. Case in point, recent media coverage of Houston’s Cuvée Coffee Roasting Company and its founder, Mike McKim. Grounds for enthusiasm – Houston Business Journal Houston Community Newspapers Online – Conscious coffee equals quality coffee […]
4 Comments | tags: Austin, Coffee, coffee scenes, Cuvée Coffee Roasting, Houston, Mike McKim, Texas | posted in Coffee
“These are a few of my favourite things…” I keep thing that music and coffee have a lot to do with one another. I’m also a wannabe geek. So I’m quite interested in the recently-announced Apple/Starbucks partnership to distribute music via wireless connections. Apple – iTunes – Starbucks Haven’t read much discussion about this deal […]
7 Comments | tags: Île sans-fil, cafés, Coffee, Digital Life, globalization, glocalization, iPhone, iPod touch, iTunes, iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, music, music distribution, partnership, Starbucks | posted in cafés, Coffee, Digital Life, globalization, glocalization, iPhone, iPod touch, iTunes, iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, music, music distribution, partnership, Starbucks
Just posted a message about my Caffè in Gamba, a new café in Montreal. CoffeeGeek – Regional: Eastern Canada, Caffè in Gamba (Montreal Intelligentsia) Because this café’s website isn’t online yet, I would need to repeat the info. The café is located in a new building at 5263 Park Ave., between Fairmount and Bernard. It’s […]
11 Comments | tags: Caffè in Gamba, coffee culture, Intelligentsia Coffee, Northern Italy, Park Avenue, Veritas | posted in café, Caffè in Gamba, Coffee, coffee scenes, culture, espresso, Montreal, WiFi
A podcast episode on coffee, with Karen Blumenthal, George Howell and Corby Kummer. On Point : Coffee Buzz – Coffee Buzz Blumenthal, author of a book about Starbucks, isn’t mentioned in the show notes but she seems to have set the tone of the show, to a certain extent. In the rest of the show, […]
2 Comments | tags: commodification, Corby Kummer, George Howell, Karen Blumenthal, NPR, On Point, snobbery, Third Wave, Tom Ashbrook, wine | posted in Beer, Coffee, drinks, hedonism, sophistication, Starbucks, United States
A recent interview with Roger A. Clemens about coffee’s health benefits on the Science Talk podcast of the Scientific American magazine. The interview relates to a short column from the Food Technology journal: IFT – January 2007, Volume 61, No. 1 To a coffee lover like me (I don’t resent the label “coffee geek“), these […]
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Nice! An elaborate description of coffee-drinking habits in Norway, within a forum thread on Turkish-style coffee brewing: CoffeeGeek – Articles: How-To Article Feedback, Brewing Turkish Coffee coffee is very much a national drink in Norway, and that would have travelled with Norwegians immigrants going to Minnesota, North Dakota, Washinton state in the US and Manitoba […]
13 Comments | tags: coffee consumption, Norway, Scandinavia | posted in Anthropology, Coffee, Ethnography, food and culture, taste
I’m usually a bit careful before jumping on the soapbox, but this is quite interesting. It’s from the blog for Black Gold, a documentary about the global coffee market. The Trials of Daryl Hunt deals with national racism in the US justice system and [Black Gold] deals with the globalised racism maintained through a rigged […]
Leave a comment | tags: Africans, Black Gold (movie), coffee farmers, CoffeeGeek, colour, documentaries, ethical coffee, Ethiopia, fair-trade, global trade, international politics, Marc Francis, Nick Francis, racism, Sundance, Tadesse Meskela | posted in activism, Africa, Coffee, Cup of Excellence, globalisation, globalization, grassroots, podcasts, race, Starbucks
Got this discussion going on CoffeeGeek for a while now. CoffeeGeek – Coffee: Machines and Brewing Methods, Confessions of a Brikka Lover There are so many ways to make coffee: Moka pots, vac pots, Turkish pots, Neapolitan pots, press pots, drip pots, percolators, balance brewers, AeroPress, Clover, semi-automatic espresso machines, super-automatic espresso machines, manual espresso […]
1 Comment | tags: AeroPress, balance brewer, Clover (coffee machine), drip coffee, moka pot, percolator, press pot, Turkish coffee, vac pot | posted in Coffee, espresso
Long-winded ramblings comparing coffee, beer, and music in terms of global and local production and consumption.
10 Comments | tags: appropriation, bottom-up, competition, cooperatives, Core, fair-trade, freshness, global, homebrewed, monopolies, oligarchies, Periphery, production, quality, schizophonia, Semi-Periphery, specialty coffee, venue, Wallerstein, World-System Theory | posted in alter-globalization, Beer, beer scene, brewpubs, café, Coffee, coffee scenes, commodities, consumption, craft, craft beer, globalization, glocal, grassroots, innovation, local, localization, Montreal, music, music scenes, performance, product and process, ramblings, recording industry, taste
Joe Ferrante's looking for bloggers interesting in columbian green coffee beans Thanks for the comment, Joe! I guess the reason you got here was that I do occasionally blog about coffee. Unfortunately, I haven't been tagging most of my posts here. I do have another blog where I posted a café review. I also reviewed […]
1 Comment | tags: Columbia, homeroasting, Northampton, reviews | posted in Blogging, café, Coffee
I want books dead. For social reasons.
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CBC Winners
Leave a comment | tags: Anthony Benda, barista, Café Myriade, Caffè Artigiano, Canadian Barista Championship, CBC, Chad Moss, Fernwood Coffee Roasting, Fratello Coffee Roasters, JJ Bean Coffee Roasters, Joel May, Kyle Straw, Robert Kettner, Spencer Viehweger, Transcend Coffee | posted in cafés, coffee scenes, comment-fishing, espresso, linkfest
A year ago today, I found out that I was, in fact, happy.
13 Comments | tags: #pcmtl, 1987, 1996, 2008, adolescence, airplane cold, backstories, bonheur, Boris Vian, Brasserie Benelux, Café Myriade, Camus, canon, Crescent, de Beauvoir, Descartes, downtown Montreal, empathy, ethnography colloquium, existential crisis, existentialism, folk diseases, folk medicine, Freud, Greek sweater, happiness, happiness anniversary, happy-go-lucky, Heidegger, hepatitis A, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, humankind, Intersubjectivity, jetlag, key moments in life, LA Story, life philosophy, life stages, match, Maupassant, Meaning of Life, mononucleosis, Nietzsche, opinions, others, phenomenology, PodCamp Montreal, Sartre, Serenity, sleeping, slogans, social life, social media, soulmate, St. Catherine, Swiss smiles, veiled references, Vian, well-being | posted in Beverages, bonheur, cluefulness, Coffee, confessions, douceur de vivre, enthusiasm, experience, Food, food philosophy, hedonism, humanism, joie de vivre, Laval, Montreal, naïve, naïveté, nostalgia, nostalgie, openness, optimism, People, personal, personal life, Placeholders, Places, playfulness, pleasure, Québec, satisfaction, shameless plug, social, social networks, social support systems, sociocentrism, success in life, Switzerland, trusting people
Ramblings about my passions for beer and experimentation.
2 Comments | tags: anecdotes, baking, Bièropholie, Chicago Beer Society, childhood, cooking, crazy, experimental spirit, mad, Members of Barleyment, MontreAlers, personal narrative, Prague, sour ales, Vienna, wild, wild ales, wild beers | posted in acquaintances, Alcohol, amateurs, Austin, Beer, beer diversity, beer geeks, beer history, beer scene, beerpubs, Beverages, binge drinking, brewclubs, brewing, brewpubs, Chicago, Coffee, comment-fishing, Communities, community-building, confessions, cooking, craft beer, craft beer culture, creativity, cuisine, cultural diversity, cultural identity, culture, enthusiasm, experience, experimentation, expertise, Food, food and culture, food and society, food philosophy, friendship, geek culture, hedonism, homebrewing, humanism, Indiana, mega-breweries, microbreweries, Montreal, networking, New Brunswick, nostalgia, online communities, participatory culture, People, personal, personal life, Places, product and process, ramblings, responsible drinking, shameless plug, social, social butterflies, social butterfly effect, social dynamics, social networking, social networks, social support systems, South Bend, Switzerland, taste, tasting, teenagers
