I’m sort of jumping the gun on writing this, but, considering the long hours and seemingly endless days of test-roasting and taste-testing, I think can be forgiven if I let spill a small portion of the proverbial beans. Besides, Michael John Butterworth requested more than one blog post a month, and I’m not about to… [Read more…]
June 28, 2011
One coffee professional recently told me, with regard to building an espresso blend, “Espresso is so varied and personal.” I liked hearing that a lot. In a sense, it was comforting to me, since all of my espresso roasting and subsequent blending had been, for the most part, very much against The Rules. In the… [Read more…]
April 3, 2011
This is the first in a series of interviews with the people that help to make the Louisville coffee scene what it is. My hopes in profiling such a set of individuals is simple: I want to showcase not only the baristas behind the bar, but also the customers those baristas serve, because both are… [Read more…]
October 7, 2010
Ricky and Doug are two friends of mine. Doug is allergic to caffeine in coffee. One night, Ricky had Doug over for dinner, and Ricky made steaks. He forgot all about Doug’s allergy and prepared the steaks using a coffee dry-rub. This vital piece of information was not divulged at any point during the evening.… [Read more…]
October 4, 2010
If you feel like you’re missing out on the strawberry, super-sweet, fruit-bomb notes on a clean, natural-processed Ethiopian, one like the Ardi or Neikisse, then sip on a good Central right before you sip on that Ethiopian. If the sweet fruits don’t pop out at you right away, I’ll brew you your next cup of… [Read more…]
September 30, 2010
Here’s a quick thought, one that I’ll try to flesh out as best I can: Some of my favorite coffees are ones that I’ve been able to work with for months. In the past year or so, I’ve developed an aversion to coffee judgments that seem to be, to me, at least, a little… underdeveloped. Yes,… [Read more…]
June 12, 2010
Since my last post forever and three and a half hours ago, much has happened. Delicious coffees have been roasted and brewed, questionable coffees I wouldn’t feed the imaginary dog next door were tasted and spit out, and at least one blog post was started and left unfinished due to Life happening. Sometime within the… [Read more…]
May 5, 2010
Tonight, I did a little cupping. I find that when the hours grow late, but I still have a hefty hankering to taste something delicious of the freshly-brewed-coffee variety, cupping does the trick. What’s more, it’s insanely practical, as I was doing a little roast profile tinkering and wanted to make sure that I was… [Read more…]
October 5, 2011
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