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April 2008 Blog Posts (55)

Congrats to bX, 2000 members!!!

Don't send a lame Congrats eCard. Try JibJab…

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Added by Matt Milletto on April 17, 2008 at 9:58pm — 9 Comments

Witness the Coffee Nightmare of 1963

This guy never left Mommy. *shudder*

Please pick up your phone right now, call your mother and/or grandmother and say, "Finally, I understand. I'm sorry--I'm just so sorry."

Link (via Boing Boing)

Post originally published by Milwaukee…

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Added by Mary Dally-Muenzmaier on April 17, 2008 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

Website preview

http://tulsa.360ideas.com/preview/Restaurants/StonewoodCoffeeAndTeaCompany.html

Please take a look at the link above for a preview of our soon to launch 360 website, any feedback is welcome.

Also, what have been your best most successful gorilla / grassroots marketing activities or stratagies??

Added by David Fell on April 16, 2008 at 6:58pm — 1 Comment

Coffee Kids' 20th Anniversary Dinner Sold Out

Thanks to all of our sponsors and those who signed up early, Coffee Kids’ 20th Anniversary Celebration Dinner at the SCAA Conference in Minneapolis is sold out. We look forward to celebrating two decades with everyone attending.

If you weren’t able to get tickets to the event, be sure to visit our booth (#1241) in the exhibition hall. We’ll be featuring information and pictures of our with coffee-growing… Continue

Added by Coffee Kids on April 16, 2008 at 4:29pm — No Comments

Roasting Plant’s Javabot

Found this article in Design News, and have heard of this cafe before. Interesting concept but I can see some components that would be up for debate, and may come off a bit gimmicky. Was curious what some other bX'ers thought about this system.

(Excerpt of above article link)If Willy Wonka designed a coffee store, he would likely end up with something like the Roasting Plant Coffee… Continue

Added by Matt Milletto on April 16, 2008 at 1:59pm — 5 Comments

Win Tickets to SCAA 2008

All our Barista Exchange buddies know all about the SCAA show in Minneapolis, but if you don't have conference passes and would like to go, comment here for your chance to win:
http://imbibemagazine.blogspot.com/2008/04/win-tickets-to-coffee-mecca-in.html

Added by Imbibe Magazine on April 16, 2008 at 12:33pm — No Comments

Kenya AA

I roasted some Kenya AA this week-end. It really roasted nice. I will be trying it real soon. I also roasted a small amount darker for an espresso.

Added by Jim on April 15, 2008 at 1:04pm — 1 Comment

Finished!!!! (dances round room madly)

Hey everyone,

this is a bit of a cop-out blog post, but I thought I'd publicise today's Happy Thought.

I HAVE FINISHED MY UPGRADE PAPER!!

Wuju!!

I am currently registered as an MPhil student at university, and in order to be upgraded to PhD, I had to write an enormous paper, explaining exactly what I want to do in my research, and why I want to do it, and why it's remotely interesting to anybody else. Mine is all about the coffee industry. 4500 words DONE.… Continue

Added by Bel Townsend on April 14, 2008 at 1:49pm — 8 Comments

April's Informal Barista Jam! With Pics!

Well, the second Dilworth Coffee Informal Barista Jam is in the books, and it was another success. We had a great turnout, and even with quite a few people who couldn't make it. We had about 15 people, and it really seemed like alot of people were picking some good stuff up. I started out by going over cleaning the espresso machine, with backflushing and grouphead cleaning. From there, we went into latte art, followed up by an all out jam. There were many levels represented, but overall, I feel… Continue

Added by Jason Dominy on April 13, 2008 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

Northeast Regional Barista Competition Finalists

I am bummed to be here on the left coast, not in attendance of the NERBC, but and trying to follow along with this weekends events. Yesterday was the semi-finals, 26 competitors I believe.

Last night was the official bX meet up and dance party in Ithaca, and I am waiting to hear how everything went, hopefully some photos too.

The finalists are:

Chris Ganger (Ithaca Coffee Co)

Lance Nichols (Gimme! Coffee)

Jay Murdock (Cafe Grumpy)

Chris Deferio… Continue

Added by Matt Milletto on April 12, 2008 at 9:39am — 4 Comments

no-foam customers (GRRR...)

I am curious to see how all of you handle customers asking for no-foam. I just cringe every time I get that in an order, but I don't want to insult customers - What is your advice?

2nd question, is it necessary to rinse your portafilter after every use? I thought it was, but one of my coworkers disagrees. She thinks that the small amount of grinds left in the bottom and around the edges doesn't make a difference in taste or quality. Again, I disagree.

Thanks for your input!

Added by Noelle on April 11, 2008 at 1:41pm — 17 Comments

Kaffa Cafe will have their own cafe again in Beijing.

Even if we decided not to have any cafes recently, we were asked to set up a cafe in a big office building, in Beijing area, with the most attractable conditions in the market.

Yes, we decided to take it for such a good condition and also a chance to educate people how good an esresso and coffee drinks can be tasty. As the market need more cafes where people can find good coffee drinks, we can do it slowly and one by one. It seems that there will be more people knowing what a good… Continue

Added by Peter Tam on April 11, 2008 at 9:59am — 1 Comment

Atlanta SCAA Skill Building Workshop.

This past weekend found the wife and I in Atlanta to help out with the Skill Building Workshop. I volunteered as a station instructor in the espresso labs headed up by the incredible, the legendary Ellie Matuszak. Nick from Stockton Graham helped out, as well as David LaMont, from Counter Culture-Atlanta. (On a side note, David used to frequent the coffeehouse I ran in downtown Athens, GA.) These workshops cover Intro to Espresso and Hands-On Espresso, and I highly recommend them for anyone… Continue

Added by Jason Dominy on April 10, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Super-Automatic Espresso Machines

So, it appears this blog is turning into a question (from me) and answer (from the gallery! Thanks!) section of my page. Sorry about that! I do have another blog, A Thought Over Coffee that has better content if you are interested.

Ok, back to my thoughts here. I have a friend/client that is a busy corporate guy that is looking for a super automatic machine for his Oklahoma City office. He is not there all the time and wants something that will… Continue

Added by Jason Duncan on April 10, 2008 at 7:22am — 4 Comments

Coffee Kids Voice from the Field: Itzel Guadalupe

Itzel Guadalupe is a member of a youth training group and the radio production workshop sponsored by AUGE, a Coffee Kids partner in Cosautlán, Veracruz, México.

"I have been a part of the youth training group since 2006. I began by participating in a survey that we conducted and other topics. Itzel of Cosautlan in the area of Teocelo. The idea was to learn what the youth enjoyed and liked to do, to know what they think, where they are from, what they study, what they see for… Continue

Added by Coffee Kids on April 9, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

I wish....

I wish Don Holly was on bX.

Added by trish rothgeb on April 9, 2008 at 8:37am — 8 Comments

Free SCAA Trade Show passes

Dear all...

I have some 15 to 20 free 3-day SCAA trade show passes for anyone that haven't registered yet ($75 value) ... you have to do it before april 25 to obtain access for free, so let me know if you want one and I will email you the code to register...

my email is csc (at) consejocafe.org.sv

To register just go to https://www.smart-reg.com/WEB-REG/SCAA08/ and click on SCAA member or non-member and enter the processing… Continue

Added by Luis Rodriguez on April 8, 2008 at 9:50am — 1 Comment

I am not a Paper Cup! Staying with the green theme.

First, thanks Terry for posting about the spot on TreeHugger, awesome! Keeping in the green theme, I wanted to post about another cup option. Composting cups can be great, but why not take your own cup to your daily java jaunts in style? Instead of the old thermos style mug with political stickers and sharpie doodles, any barista would LOVE to pour you your soy latte into a "I'm Not a Paper Cup" double-walled… Continue

Added by Matt Milletto on April 8, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

What does Starbucks have in store now??

As some of you may have already seen, Starbucks has plans for tomorrow. With Howard back at the reigns it seems he is pushing to bring the original ideals of the very first Starbucks stores back. As you can see on their website they are promoting a big change tomorrow, 04.08.08.

Thru a couple sources, I have read online that they will be implementing their original logo and original brown color scheme on some in-house print materials and… Continue

Added by Matt Milletto on April 7, 2008 at 9:12am — 14 Comments

Special Daterra Event at Grumpy!

Daterra Coffees - Talk & Tasting

May 7, 2008

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Cafe Grumpy, Chelsea, NYC

Featured coffees will include :2007 Daterra Reserve

2007 Daterra BSCA Taste of the Harvest Magnum Reserve Yellow Bourbon

2007 Daterra Opus One ( naturally grown low caffeine coffee )

Talk and photos will be presented by Andreza Elaine Marzarao and

Isabela Pascoal of Daterra . Focus will be on artisan coffee

production and… Continue

Added by Ed Kaufmann on April 7, 2008 at 6:40am — No Comments

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