Follow what is going on throughout the week at both the cafe and the roastery. Find out about specials and fresh coffee offerings. I'll try to find a Twitter button, but in the meantime I'm @samjones5
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It is a real treat to work with this coffee. It is so particular. It is a Barista's coffee. You can really taste the coffee developing over time. The coffee has dramatic brew sensetivity. It is very fun to play with this unique offering.
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Here is a fantastic example of a dry process Yirga-Cheffe. A unique treat to be sure. It is almost gone and with the ECX, it may not surface in Victoria again. It will be missed!
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About a year ago we made a major switch to our brew coffee program: we put away our hyper-expensive Clover machine and our conventional drip filter brewer machine in exchange for brewing all our non-espresso coffee with a French Press. A press is arguably the simplest way of brewing a spectacular cup of coffee. This simple and traditional brewing method extracts the truest flavours out of our coffees, doing proper justice to their individual...
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New toys in the form of handles for our espresso machine. As a barista, the feeling of a smoothly contoured Reg Barber tamper in my hand as it presses down on a tasty espresso blend is the kind of feeling that turns coffee making from a just a job into a passion. The right hand is gripped to the tamper, but what's in the left hand? A generic plastic handle acting as the connection to...
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I love coffee sacks. Don't get me wrong. I love the colourful designs and beautiful pictures of a colombian microlot. I love the soft texture, the basic identifying markings and the corded closing stitch of an co-op Ethiopian. But today there was no sweeter packaging than what my new Kenyan coffee came in. Kenya Ichanjeru AA Microlot comes in a square box with two 15 kilo vacuum sealed foil bags. Pulling one of those bricks of...
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