“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…]
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…]
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…]
December 29, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, I decided I would do a post reviewing my top ten coffee moments of 2010. I was kind of excited about writing it, since I can sometimes be the sentimental/storytelling sort that likes to look back and reflect a bit. The problem? Such top-ten posts aren’t allowed before Christmas, you… [Read more…]
September 26, 2010
On Friday, I alluded to some rather choice words I might have had in my head concerning the state of coffee here in Louisville. I held back, thinking instead to share a handful of my own coffee shortcomings, shortcomings that reminded me of how poorly-qualified I am to be pointing my finger at anyone. The… [Read more…]
September 9, 2010
Yesterday, I had a little chat with Matt and Jesse. They came up to me and, without much preamble, told me that they wanted to see a bunch of us get together and geek out over and enjoy coffee in a concentrated yet informal setting. Sound familiar? Yeah, I thought so. The awesome thing? Matthew… [Read more…]
August 30, 2010
Note: The following was was written and posted well over two years ago. In reading another post over at Bitter Press, I was reminded of the many analogous ways we think of coffee, and thought I’d go ahead and post it here. A little over a few weeks ago, I roasted up a Mexican coffee… [Read more…]
August 28, 2010
I’m well-known for leaving my coffee gear all around town. Once upon a time, Chris and Kenny loved for me to come over to do coffee things at their place, and not least because I’d inevitably leave one of my toys in their kitchen. They always knew that my standard response was something along the… [Read more…]
June 19, 2010
Last night, I tweeted this little blurb: Most useful, bottom-line criterion for evaluating a coffee: “Would I be proud of serving this if I roasted and/or brewed it?” A few days back, I was sitting in Sunergos. Kenny was enlisting my help in getting some V60 brewing parameters together for the shop, and, as a… [Read more…]
June 18, 2010
So. By this time next week, a whole lot of coffee folks are gonna be focused on the second location for Louisville’s Sunergos Coffee. It’s no overstatement to say that it’ll be the most anticipated opening for a Louisville coffee shop in over a year, and it does, in my estimation, deserve every bit of… [Read more…]
November 29, 2011
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