2009 Western Regional Barista Competition
I sadly won’t be able to make it to the 2009 WRBC, but it looks like there will be plenty of opportunities to follow this big event online – big since plenty of last years top rated US contenders...
View ArticleThe Intelligentsia Opening That Almost Wasn’t
Intelli-Venice Ain’t Got the Power In case you’ve missed the buzz (1,2), last Friday was the Grand Opening Party for Intelligentsia‘s newest cafe on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice. The irony, of...
View ArticleBack to Coffee School
Consumer education is an often overlooked and frequently underutilized feature of the specialty coffee industry. Many cafes and roasters provide and participate in a variety of tastings, courses,...
View ArticleFeeling the Coffee Tasting Love at Barefoot
It’s been almost a year since I attended the first session of Barefoot Coffee Roaster’s “Foundations of Taste” series at their flagship store in Santa Clara. It was an enjoyable enough experience for...
View ArticleMan Seeking Competition
Most weekends over the past few months have found me glued to the computer screen, turning my wife into a sports widow. I’m not talking about March Madness either. I’ve been watching the US Regional...
View ArticleTo the USBC or Bust!
Since I made my big announcement yesterday, I’ve been carefully weighing the pros and cons of competing. On the “pro” side…well, I’m sure there are all sorts of platitudes I could espouse about making...
View ArticleThe Man Seeking Coffee LA Coffee Map
As a reader of this blog, it’s very likely that you are now either on your way or soon will be to gawk, schmooze, blog, present, compete or otherwise partake in the extravaganza known as the 2010...
View Article(Quasi) Live Updates from SCAA 2010
I tend to like to save twitter for more pithy items and this blog for more substantive ones. While I do plan on using both to report back on my trip to SCAA 2010, I wanted to add another tool to the...
View ArticleReports of My Decaffeination…
When I posted last, the World Cup hadn’t yet begun. Since that time, the U.S., despite a valiant effort, has dropped out. But that loss didn’t stop the U.S. from winning another world sporting...
View ArticleA Cupping Extravaganza
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...
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