Hey Shawn! It was great happenstance to run into you for a brief moment in my travels. Its a small coffee world! I picked up your book from Dennis and now that I am back home, I hope to start it soon. I know where to get  a hold of you if I happen to have any questions :)

 

Aloha from Peoria, IL!

My name is miss angela desmond i saw your profile today and became interested in
you,i will also like to know you more,and i want you to send an email to my
email address so i can give you my picture, for you to know whom i am.
Here is my email address( angela5000desmond@yahoo.fr)
I believe we can move from here!
I am waiting for your mail to my email address above.
(Remeber the distance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life)
( angela5000desmond@yahoo.fr)

Hi Shawn, my name is Shane Devereaux. I was given your name by Colin Newell. I have a coffee shop in Victoria called Habit. Anyways I'm going to be in Honolulu and the North Shore as of Friday. Colin said you might be able to let me know where to get a good cup. We're in Honolulu Friday night and then off to Turtle Bay. If you have some time to let me in on the goods, that would be great. cheers mate

Was fun to meet Colin and experience his enthusiasm for all things regarding coffee. Pretty sure you gave him a thorough tour of the respective Oahu locations as well. Very nice folks indeed. Funny, polite and so interested in everything. Hey, looking forward to your paper!

Aloha Shawn,
Care to befriend me on the baristaxchange site as well? Hope all is well. We had a record harvest on our Kona farm, btw. Yippeekayeee!

Hi Shawn, nice to find you here. Best regards from Sao Paulo.

Paul

By the way, in September they will be finishing their harvest..

Hi Shawn, I don't know if I can go with you visiting the farms, but sure I can help you choose and get in touch with those guys..

Just let me know if you need any help...

Hey Shawn, I'm also on the coffee researchers' group. I am a chemistry undergrad at the Wilkes Honors College in Jupiter, FL. To graduate honors, I have to do research and write a thesis for my senior year. I hope to write mine on coffee, but am currently looking at what questions I need ask, and what I could contribute to the quality coffee cause.

Currently, I am interning at an environmental chemistry laboratory, where I perform soil and water extractions to test for contamination (BTEX, MTBE, pesticides, etc.). With a little luck, I'll be able to move up into an analyst postition to work with the GC-MS set-ups. So I figure GC-MS analysis of coffee might be a possibility, maybe optimizing extraction of desirable flavors, or increasing yields of antioxidants (chlorogenic acids, anyone?).

For my birthday, I am receiving a copy of Andrea Illy's book on espresso, and possibly the Probat book on roasting. Do you have any other recommendations for scientific literature on coffee? Also, I'd love to learn more about what you do; maybe I really can make this passion into a career.

Brendon

Hey Shawn. I ran across your profile here and figured maybe I should have one too. I know that doesn't make me as cool as you but I gotta try.

Hey it was great meeting you in Minneapolis- best Euchre teammate ever! Keep up with the coffee science, interesting stuff... maybe I'm biased... Good luck in everything you do. Take care.

hey, whenever! Good luck with your thesis, hope the last few weeks aren't too stressful

Yo Shawn! Coming to Hawaii, yea!

Just want to say Aloha! I own a coffee/roasting cafe in downtown Honolulu-located on Fort Street Mall. If you are ever downtown, please come on for some coffee.

Charles Nelson
Downtown Coffee
Honolulu, Hawaii
www.flickr.com/photos/dragoncoffee

Thats very cool, I mean I am always looking for a job and where ever that job may take me. We need to stay in touch so I can be updated with the coffee hort world. But anyways, a blunt direct question for you, lets say I graduate in a year and a half, think there might be job openings for coffee farms in the Hawaii area? or maybe other areas of the world as well?

Well, I guess my main question would be how does someone get in the horticulture aspect of coffee, job wise?

Shawn,
I heard through the grape vine that you got a degree in horticulture. Well, I live in NC and trying to get a scholarship for my horticulture degree but need to tell that horticulture will benefit my career. I know I want a career in coffee, but also want to pursue my degree program in horticulture, is any careers out there that horticulture will directly benefit? Any information will be helpful.

Thanks

Aloha Brah! We may be seeing you in May and December... Yes. Christmas in Hawaii.
Enough of the gray.

Hey Shawn,
You book sounds cool! Yes, we got married in August, it was a blast. For sure I'll see you in MN for the SCAA show ... wanna volunteer for a class I'm teaching again? :)