Coffee

Celeste green is now the official colour of a spandex safe zone. The iconic colour of Bianchi bicycles is featured throughout Musette, Vancouver’s first cycling café, which opened this week at 1262 Burrard Street. The location is just off of Davie and Burrard but it’s a bit tricky to find because they are located in [...]

‘Fresh’ is a term in coffee that has been overused by retailers and consumers alike, to the point that it doesn’t mean anything anymore. What is freshness?
Typically fresh coffee is thought of as a roasted product. It has only been within the last few years that roast dates have become a relevant selling feature of [...]

‘Fresh’ is a term in coffee that has been overused by retailers and consumers alike, to the point that it doesn’t mean anything anymore. What is freshness?
Roast dates have become a popular trend amongst quality coffee companies in order to educate the consumer about the importance of having coffee that is roasted recently. The aromatics [...]

I recently had the pleasure of teaching a group of Korean Buddhist monks a weeks worth of coffee classes to help them improve upon the coffee that they were making at the Bongeun-Sa temple in Seoul. Forgive my ignorance but I was unaware that monks were able to drink coffee but it turns out that [...]

I eat out a lot – dinner, desserts, wine, cocktails, coffee. Unfortunately, if I do have a cup of coffee after dinner when I eat out, I am most often disappointed. I can handle the 10pm caffeine infusion, as much as I can handle the wine or booze–it is most often the preparation or lack [...]