WHAT"S UP PLAYA!!!

My good man, I had to say thanks. Your help this last weekend was very much appreciated. enjoy Ireland and come visit when you get back.

Got to see you set it off twice. Great job both times and congrats on placing. Thanks for the FRUIT FORWARD espresso shots during practice. When is Demarse blend available from the AWC? What farmhouse ale inspired the siggy drink?

dude, come pull a fake-shift. rock the synesso all day!

hahaha! totally scary, right? dude, you were awesome and it was literally inspiring to see how much progress you've made.
see ya next year, day 3.

hey CHris as it turns some guy I work with took 2nd place and will be in portland with some room to spare. If I find anyone on the look out I will pass them your way though. Glad your heading out sir.

Winning fourth place makes you look skinnier...
but it makes your head look bigger...!
Dude, congrats again and again...you earned it, bro!

Hey man, heard you did pretty well this weekend, thanks again for the tip on the cappuccino, see you in Portland

Man, I just wanted to tell you how proud I was of you. Just amazing, and it's cool to see how you've progressed. I am very proud of all your hard work and passion. Cheers!

Chris, good to see you in Chicago. Congrats as I heard you did well at the competition too. - Matt

Congratulations on 4th place bro! Sorry I wasn't able to stay for the finals.

It would be amazing if that was an accurate depiction of the US. I'm expecting mr. phillips as well.

how many of your folks are tossing hats in in? Our team is a bit smaller this year for sure.

As much as I may be wishing the rumors of my competitorial demise were true, the sad fact is that I will have to pony up and go try to not embarrass myself infront of a collection of peers and friends... sigh. I trust you and your faithful legions of espresso warriors will be in attendance?

We did recently get a couple of new green PNG beans. Are you thinking our CoE El Salvador?

I'm not in Lincoln... I'm in York... and it's quite refreshing. I drove through a little piece of hell getting here... white-knuckled driving through 3 1/2 hours of freezing rain, and then some blinding heavy snow, and then a little bit of foggy night.

How'd the Espresso toss up go yesterday? Anything surprising?

Chris, thanks for coming up, doing the install and hanging out. It was a great time.

Is it true...in less than a week you'll be in GR for hook-up and jamming on the GB-5.

And as much as I agree with you, the problem comes with the fact that you still had to wean people off of those big lattes. It still took time for them to get used to what we consider good. Plus, it takes time to educate so in the mean time, they get their "super lattes". Like I said in my blog and you said in your response, it is our job to get them to appreciate good coffee.

Another thought to go with this is why not serve a 24oz latte to get them into your shop in order to re-educate them instead of letting them go to "chain" coffee houses that will never tell them different....just a thought. Either way, its the American dream that screws up our thinking into bigger is better no matter what whether it is truly right or wrong.