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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  Green Bean List   Brazil San Antonia Estates Sc.17/18 Natural Minas Gerais Arabica Coffee                                    This natural process coffee from Minas Gerais offers a raisin-like rummy fruit flavor prominent in many high-grown Brazil naturals. An excellent contrast to our slightly more pungent Porta Rossa profile, like comparing jelly and peanut butter   Papua New Guinea NOP Certified Organic Arabica                                                                         Maple syrup and hints of berry in the acidity. Stands alone well, or could offer medium-to-high notes in a blend.     Java Estate...
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Well congrats to Brette and Tiffany! The Western Comp was great, if not frocked with the usual complaints. However, Tiffany is going to the Canadians in Montreal in October.  Brette is going to be there too as Tiff's coach and right hand woman! Look out Montreal! I have added a Flicker link to my site. The photo blog is new and I will be adding to it regularly (I hope) so keep looking for new pics.There...
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