Posts from the ‘Blog’ Category
A few years back when I started this adventure, one of first few roasters I ordered from was Kaldi’s Coffee. I can’t remember the exact coffee I had but I remember it was good. Today, I can thankfully describe a coffee better than just good. I’m not sure why it has taken me this long [...]
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I love getting coffee surprises with my order. Cauca Inza, Colombia Espresso is another new offering from Kuma Coffee. Thoughts I was so busy drinking five different bags of coffee that I didn’t get to run this through the Presso, but that’s okay because the Woodneck gave me some great results. I found figs and [...]
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I’d like to introduce a new roaster to the site. Let’s welcome Evocation Coffee Roasters to the table. I thank Twitter every day for all the new roasters I come across. Half of them have been around for a number of years and I am just now hearing about them. Evocation Coffee Roasters is a [...]
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I admit, I am not one for changing my baseline brewing ratios for each brewing method not because I am lazy, but for the reason that if the coffee tastes good why go and change it? I am starting to see that something can taste good, but it can also be better too. There’s always [...]
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You may or may not have heard quite a few people, including myself talking about a particular coffee, Bella Carmona, Guatemala on Twitter lately. That’s because Mark, roaster and founder of Kuma Coffee just released a new offering to the already amazing coffee line. Bella Carmona is a coffee to talk about, to dream about, [...]
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This bag of coffee came from LA Coffee Club, a coffee subscription service with the aim to bring you coffee from various roasters in the LA area. Meet, New Frontier Coffee. Thoughts From the moment you open the bag you are greeted with beans slightly speckled with oil and a quiet smell of smokiness and [...]
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This week I finally scrounged up some time to play around with some iced aeropress recipes I’ve been hearing a lot about on Twitter. It seems that cold brew coffee and the aeropress is the popular choice right now. It all started with a recipe that Ben Blake aka Draw Coffee posted on his blog [...]
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MadCap’s Spring Fling was a hit for me so now its time to merge away from blends for a moment and check out one of their single origin coffees, Rwanda Gishamwana. This coffee is a serious eye opener, along with an explosion of flavor. Just go ahead and read and see for yourself. Thoughts The [...]
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On March 30th, 2012 Prima Coffee and Able Brewing partnered up to host a contest. The prize was a pre-release of the new Aeropress stainless steel disk titled, “Disk Fine.” Including me, there were 100 winners chosen to test the new prototype to see whether or not Able Brewing should move forward with full production. [...]
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Quick thanks to Forty Weight Coffee for throwing some of this Yemen in with my order. I’ve had a Yemen Mocca coffee before and didn’t particularly like it… Then again, it was one of my early home roasts which could be the reason why. Let’s see what I found. Thoughts Wow! The Clever Dripper just [...]
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