I received a pleasant surprise this week. I received an email from Peter Milne who is part of the father/son company, Cast Iron Coffee. His email was to let me know that he was recently pointed to the review I had done of one of his coffees, Mexico Oaxaca Pluma Don Eduardo. I had forgotten [...]
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I love when I get emails about surprise coffee packages heading my way. I love it even more so when they come from great roasters like One Village Coffee. Thanks to head roaster Woodrow Decasere, I had three new coffees to review. These three coffees, India Mysore Chickmagulur, Costa Rica “Pepe”, and Guatemala Chajul were [...]
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I’ve been away from the site for about a week now, as well as having some late posts here. I apologize for that. You’ll be seeing some new coffee posts here shortly. I’ll slowly, but surely be getting back into the groove of things on here. Since I’ve been away from the site I’d thought [...]
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Its been a crazy last few weeks for me between moving into my house and having trouble finding my creative side. Things were looking down until Mike Hudson from Handsome Coffee Roasters emailed me to let me know that they had a limited amount of their coffee over at BaristaLab. I had emailed him weeks [...]
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When tasting a coffee it’s hard not to judge based on first impressions. You’d think that from the first impression the coffee would tell you all that it will hold, but that isn’t true. Coffee, on rare occasions doesn’t always taste best on that first taste even if the coffee has already had a few [...]
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Sometimes I wonder why I keep buying canned coffee drinks like this and putting myself through hell. As I am writing this I am already drinking this drink, and well… You’re going to have to keep reading. This drink in particular caught my eye not for the previous canned coffee and energy Monster has done [...]
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I am really feeling the urge to quote Chunk from my favorite movie, The Goonies, but I’ll refrain. If you haven’t already noticed, coffee isn’t just for drinking anymore. Especially in my kitchen where coffee has become a part of just about everything I cook because it adds a unique flavor to my dishes. Coffee [...]
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A new roasting company has hit the coffee scene. Well, they aren’t necessarily new as they just went live with their first offering, El Salvador Finca Monte Rey Pradera. So who is this new roasting company? They are Tonx Coffee, and they are led by Tony Konecny a well known coffee guy, and a team [...]
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Its the burning question that has been on my mind the past few weeks since I tried this experiment for the first time. Note: if you haven’t read the first installment to this post: “Brewed Over Ice: An Iced Method Worth Trying,” I suggest you read it and then come back. This experiment started when [...]
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When you hear the word Sumatra what comes to mind? For me, when I hear the word Sumatra, I think of earthiness, mustiness, intense, and over powering. Sumatra has never been one of my favorite regions of coffee until an adventure I had a few months back. When I came across De La Paz Coffee’s [...]
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I can’t imagine how stressful it can be when you have large amounts of green beans being shipped to you. The worries that come about, all the things that can go wrong. I know I’d be a nervous wreck just praying that the green beans arrive safety and without a hitch. I wonder what Sweet [...]
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About a week ago I was contacted by Tom Anderson from The People’s Roast asking if he could send me some coffee samples to try. I had been interested in checking out their coffee for a few weeks now. Now that the opportunity was sitting in front of me I could not pass it up. [...]
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