Lee: “Nov. 29.” Me: “Yeah?” Lee: “The last time you wrote a blog post.” Me: “2. That’s the number of stores Quills has opened since that date.” I’m sitting in the second of those two stores right now, a disarmingly beautiful space that is at once both cozy and comfortable. We opened this space on… [Read more…]
November 29, 2011
“The enemy.” In a recent conversation with one of my co-workers, he asked me if he should consider another local coffee shop to be “the enemy” now that he worked here. I told him my take is that there is absolutely no reason he should feel that way, and for two reasons: Value and trust.… [Read more…]
October 5, 2011
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…]
September 30, 2011
Some of you were aware that, last week, I took a little trip to Seattle to take in the city, hang out with Ryan and Molly Soeder, and enjoy Coffee Fest and its related festivities. Those handful of you who don’t add excitement and enrichment to your life by anxiously awaiting my every tweet and… [Read more…]
August 31, 2011
The past several weeks — months, really — have been mildly crazy. Lots and lots of work, with not a whole lot of reprieve. I’m fine with that, though, as I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to learn and explore, all the while being paid. Right now, this very moment, I have several batches of… [Read more…]
June 15, 2011
“With great power comes great responsibility.” Though it seems others before Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben employed this maxim, I do tend to think of its influence upon my thinking as being rooted in Spider-Man. These days, I certainly feel it; Peter Parker I am undoubtedly not, but greatly responsible? Absolutely. I’ve been blessed and tasked… [Read more…]
June 13, 2011
Since Mr. Darren Middlename Jennings not-so-subtly hinted that I need to blog more, I’m going ahead and writing. A while back, I wrote about how I was going to blog, every day, some little tidbit I’d learned about coffee that day. For a while, I kept that up on my tumblr site, but I’ve dropped… [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…]
March 4, 2011
So, no joke, I really stink at this blogging thing right now. About a week and a half ago, I was in the process of writing this: Since Michael John Butterworth called me out concerning my lack of writing about the weekend spent in Chicago to attend Coffee Fest, I figured I would bend to… [Read more…]
January 15, 2011
Earlier this week, while Nathan and Philip and I were brainstorming and hoping that little red roaster wouldn’t get hurt in the bed of the truck, I mentioned the idea of printing out little postcard-sized handouts with helpful hints on how to taste coffee. At the time, we were thinking of ways to set ourselves… [Read more…]
January 18, 2012
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