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Coffee

Coffee Certifications

by Mette-Marie Hansen 09.19.2011

“Is Your Coffee Fair Trade and Sustainable and Organic?”
I just got this question from a concerned consumer, and she was raising valid questions about well known certifications and buzz-words. The question is simple, and doesn’t require more than a yes-or-no, but as much as I love coffee, I love the opportunity to discuss and explore [...]

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Contest Winner! “Coffee Story: Ethiopia”

by Editor 09.16.2011

Tracey Charette, you are the winner of the Coffee Story: Ethiopia book. Congratulations!

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Coffee Story: Ethiopia

by Editor 09.07.2011

If there ever was such a thing as the perfect coffee table book, this would be it. I have ONE FREE COPY ($65 value) of Coffee Story: Ethiopia to giveaway. Come inside for details…

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“Revolver Coffee” Opens on Cambie Street in Gastown

by Mette-Marie Hansen 09.02.2011

Perhaps no one in the Giannakos family thought they would end up with a state-of-the-art coffee shop in downtown Vancouver when they opened Cafe Crema in West Vancouver back in December 2006. But this weekend, Revolver Coffee is set to open on 325 Cambie Street in Gastown after many months of [...]

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Why Not Wet Grind?

by Colter Jones 08.25.2011

A video was recently posted of David Walsh talking about the possibility of wet grinding coffee to prevent some of the limiting factors that modern grinders present us with. David is one of the minds at Marco that helped to create the Über Grinder and the Über Boiler, which are two devices in an elite [...]

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Coffee at Auction

by Colter Jones 08.09.2011

The Cup of Excellence is a program that has been developed to promote specialty coffee in a very transparent and unbiased manner. Respected judges are invited from all over the planet to grade coffees that are submitted into the program. After the coffees are graded the farm and varietals are revealed and put up for [...]

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Tour de French Press

by Colter Jones 07.20.2011

Some like to take summer vacation to get away from it all, but just because you’re on vacation doesn’t mean that you’ll be unable to get a good cup of coffee in the morning—It just might not be the same cup that you’re used to. When I’m away I find that the easiest and most [...]

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Coffee: On Ice

by Colter Jones 06.23.2011

The onset of summer has been a slow transition this year, delaying the reactionary change that causes some of my regular customers to switch from hot beverages to iced drinks. Iced coffee is a menu item that is popular and yet quite often ignored by the coffee community because there is no expectation of quality. [...]

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Coffee Tech Talk

by Colter Jones 05.25.2011

Portafilter baskets are a sadly neglected item in the espresso arsenal, which is a shame because their performance is one of the large contributing factors to the taste and ability to replicate great espresso. Most espresso machine companies have treated filter baskets as an after-thought by delegating basket production to outside manufacturers. A couple of [...]

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Performance Enhancing Mugs

by Colter Jones 05.01.2011

One particular coffee-related conversation that I normally choose to avoid is the treatment of coffee as fuel. Ideally quality should be the only topic of discussion but caffeine is a part of coffee and can’t be ignored. Some recent reading that I was doing helped me to understand a little bit more about what caffeine [...]

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Juan On Juan

by Colter Jones 04.13.2011

Recently Juan Valdez made an appearance in Vancouver in order to promote the new line of Juan Valdez roasted coffees that will be sold at London Drugs. The character of Juan Valdez was created in 1960 by the Federation of Colombian coffee in an effort to bring awareness to the quality of Colombian coffee. The [...]

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Common Threads

by Colter Jones 03.22.2011

The recent Coffee Common project at TED that I was involved with was designed to highlight the entire path that coffee must take in order to reach the consumer through their slogan, “Discover, Harvest, Roast, Grind, Brew, and Sip”. Throughout working at TED and trying to educate people about specialty coffee I found myself straying [...]

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