http://topicfire.com/Coffee 2010-03-10T18:05:04+00:00 text/html 2010-03-10T15:03:14+00:00 http://www.coffeesage.com/ http://www.coffeesage.com/archives/2010/03/starbucks-introduces-trinta/ Americans love their coffee.  It seems we can&#8217;t get enough of the stuff.  Well, Starbucks is going to try to fill our unfillable thirst and addiction to java. Starbucks introduced us to the 24 ounce Venti, but apparently that was not enough.  They are now introducing us to the Trinta, which... text/html 2010-03-09T21:00:00+00:00 http://blogs.starbucks.com/ http://blogs.starbucks.com/blogs/customer/archive/2010/03/09/msi-coffee-tasting-club-week-1-organic-yukon-blend-174.aspx <a href="http://blogs.starbucks.com/blogs/customer/archive/2010/03/09/msi-coffee-tasting-club-week-1-organic-yukon-blend-174.aspx"><img src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nD8svLF3KGE/default.jpg" /></a><br />Hi ~ I&rsquo;m Pamela and I am a new moderator on MSI.&nbsp; My role as a territory manager, on the Food Service (FS) team, is to work with national and local FS accounts who offer the We Proudly Brew Starbucks program at various locations including corporate campuses, hotels, hospitals, resorts,... text/html 2010-03-09T09:50:10+00:00 http://coffeecupnews.org/ http://coffeecupnews.org/2010/03/08/chocolate-cake-coffee/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Overview In this episode Jason does a taste test of a coffee flavored like german chocolate cake and a discussion about action figures. Coffee &#38; Description Timothy&#8217;s German Chocolate Cake Nice acidity with a lack luster aftertaste. Overall Rating 5.5 out of 10 Aroma: 8 Acidity: 7 Body: 7 Flavor: 5 Aftertaste: 1 Question of the Day? What was your favorite action... text/html 2010-03-09T08:33:02+00:00 http://www.jimseven.com/ http://www.jimseven.com/2010/03/09/return-of-the-uber/ <a href="http://www.jimseven.com/2010/03/09/return-of-the-uber/"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4417639039_2857ac7b3a_d.jpg" /></a><br />For a while all has been quiet on the Uber front.  We shuffled some stuff around at the roastery, and as part of it we chose not to cut the old Uber into the new worktops as we planned to upgrade &#8211; the new Uber having a different (smaller) cutout. The... text/html 2010-03-08T04:02:31+00:00 http://www.jimseven.com/ http://www.jimseven.com/2010/03/07/cappuccino-as-conflict/ <a href="http://www.jimseven.com/2010/03/07/cappuccino-as-conflict/"><img src="http://www.jimseven.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/capp.jpg" /></a><br />Competition season often leaves me with an uneasy relationship with a drink I usually find very enjoyable.  I should add that my own view is in no way representative of competition judges, or competitions or anything like that &#8211; just a thought rolling around my head. Generally, it seems, we treat... text/html 2010-03-07T07:14:51+00:00 http://coffeecupnews.org/ http://coffeecupnews.org/2010/03/06/blueberry-coffee/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Cant View? Click Here Overview In this episode I taste a coffee that is very reminiscent of blueberry muffins and it brings back memories of my childhood.  I changed up the blog layout a bit and I would love you feedback. Coffee &#38; Description Green Mountain Wild Blueberry It tastes just like a blueberry... text/html 2010-02-25T01:09:00+00:00 http://blogs.starbucks.com/ http://blogs.starbucks.com/blogs/customer/archive/2010/02/24/in-response-to-your-idea-teach-baristas-sign-language.aspx <a href="http://blogs.starbucks.com/blogs/customer/archive/2010/02/24/in-response-to-your-idea-teach-baristas-sign-language.aspx"><img src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/a7VKZVZgXr0/default.jpg" /></a><br />Should Starbucks Baristas be able to say &ldquo;Thank You&rdquo; in sign language?&nbsp; Tell us what you think.&nbsp; Vote here. (Please visit the site to view this media)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Inspired by your idea: teach your baristas to say thank you in aslposted by prezbucks &nbsp; &nbsp; text/html 2010-02-24T16:00:35+00:00 http://www.jimseven.com/ http://www.jimseven.com/2010/02/24/who-is-to-blame/ You drink a nice brewed cup of coffee from a hypothetical farm in El Salvador.  It is incredibly delicious.  The cup is light and juicy, but still very sweet.  There are notes of cherry and caramel and acidity is reminiscent of a crisp apple.  We celebrate this coffee, perhaps we... text/html 2010-02-24T07:19:26+00:00 http://shotzombies.com/ http://shotzombies.com/2010/02/23/brooklyns-blue-bottle/ <a href="http://shotzombies.com/2010/02/23/brooklyns-blue-bottle/"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4382534071_87effaf552.jpg" /></a><br />I found myself once again following up on a NY Times post by Oliver Strand, this time visiting Blue Bottle&#8217;s newest location in Brooklyn (and first on the East Coast).  The space is huge, nearly 40,000 square feet, and most of it is dedicated to roasting production.  The service area... text/html 2010-02-23T03:36:47+00:00 http://coffeecupnews.org/ http://coffeecupnews.org/coffee-reviews/season-2/coffee-cerea/ In this episode I paired up coffee next to cereal. I got some good results. The Cheerios, Trix, and Cocoa Puffs went really well with the coffee they were combined with. Social text/html 2010-02-23T10:03:40+00:00 http://www.jimseven.com/ http://www.jimseven.com/2010/02/23/thresholds-of-deliciousness/ I&#8217;ve been thinking more and more about the tiers of tastiness when it comes to not only coffee, but any food or drink.  I think this was probably triggered by the whole aerating thing. Having tasted coffee that had been aerated, as well as coffee brewed with aerated water, against a... text/html 2010-02-22T13:55:59+00:00 http://www.chemicallyimbalanced.org/ http://www.chemicallyimbalanced.org/2010/02/22/serbc-juggernautism/ <a href="http://www.chemicallyimbalanced.org/2010/02/22/serbc-juggernautism/"><img src="http://www.chemicallyimbalanced.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/se-lem4.jpg" /></a><br />what to make of lem butler? the fellow roasts coffee, surfs, spins the vinyl, stars in a puppet show, treats his girlfriend like a real gent and wins every southeast barista competition he deigns to enter. more than 60 points is the margin by which &#8220;sexyfoam&#8221; three-peated as champion. still as... text/html 2010-02-18T20:30:24+00:00 http://www.jimseven.com/ http://www.jimseven.com/2010/02/18/aidas-grand-reserve/ I am very much aware that promoting my own products or business on a personal blog very quickly spends any currency of goodwill that I might have built up. There are, however, rare instances where I think it is entirely worth it and this is one of them. There is... text/html 2010-02-18T07:37:51+00:00 http://www.arizona-coffee.com/ http://www.arizona-coffee.com/2010/when-is-a-coffee-shop-not-a-coffee-shop At what point does a coffee shop become something other than a coffee shop? This question was posed by Todd Welfelt in the forum recently. You can read his comments here (must be registered). Todd asks this question: This particular place serves coffee, alcohol, food, live music, comedy routines, and gives away... text/html 2010-02-18T05:19:35+00:00 http://shotzombies.com/ http://shotzombies.com/2010/02/17/bunns-trifecta/ <a href="http://shotzombies.com/2010/02/17/bunns-trifecta/"><img src="http://shotzombies.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/fsyv1.jpg?w=450&#038;h=600" /></a><br />Following up on the New York Times article by  Oliver Strand, I spent some time at Cafe Grumpy today playing with Bunn&#8217;s new Trifecta.  First discussed on Coffeed just over a year ago, the bullet points listed here by Kevin last October seem to hold true today.  But I didn&#8217;t enjoy Bunn&#8217;s... text/html 2010-02-16T03:04:00+00:00 http://blogs.starbucks.com/ http://blogs.starbucks.com/blogs/customer/archive/2010/02/15/introducing-pour-over-brewing-in-the-afternoon.aspx <a href="http://blogs.starbucks.com/blogs/customer/archive/2010/02/15/introducing-pour-over-brewing-in-the-afternoon.aspx"><img src="http://blogs.starbucks.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.UserFiles/00.00.02.07.56/pourover.png" /></a><br />Hi everyone! This is Colin from the Brewed Coffee team.&nbsp; I am excited to announce the launch of the Pour Over method to better deliver decaf and bold brewed coffee to our customers in the afternoon.Through My Starbucks Idea (MSI) and direct feedback, we heard your frustrations regarding our brewing... text/html 2010-02-15T19:33:36+00:00 http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/ http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/the-dark-side-to-auto-drip-brew/ <a href="http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/the-dark-side-to-auto-drip-brew/"><img src="http://muddydogcoffee.smugmug.com/Origin-Travel/Ethiopia-February-2009/ethiopia-365/492966118_vojWK-S-1.jpg" /></a><br />For a couple weeks now, I&#8217;ve been enjoying automatic drip coffee at home.  This is a big change for me, having given up on that method a decade ago.  When we started selling Technivorm last month, I liked that machine so much that I bought one for myself. After a few... text/html 2010-02-12T08:21:29+00:00 http://www.jimseven.com/ http://www.jimseven.com/2010/02/12/an-experiment-with-grind-size/ My experience with the ExtractMojo has so far resulted in one recurring realisation:  I often wasn&#8217;t grinding finely enough.  The purpose of this isn&#8217;t to rehash the whole underextracted thing.  More a simple experiment in terms of people&#8217;s preferences. Accurately communicating grind size remains near impossible.  We can say coarse, very... text/html 2010-02-10T08:45:30+00:00 http://www.jimseven.com/ http://www.jimseven.com/2010/02/10/the-naturals-debate/ You could say this debate is old news, but somehow it still seems to be rumbling on. In the english speaking online coffee community it often seems a bit like Intelligentsia Vs. Naturals-Lovers, and Geoff Watts great post on the Intelli website kicked off the debate again recently.1  To quote the... text/html 2010-02-07T22:53:19+00:00 http://www.jimseven.com/ http://www.jimseven.com/2010/02/07/tick-tick-tick-boom/ <a href="http://www.jimseven.com/2010/02/07/tick-tick-tick-boom/"><img src="http://www.jimseven.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/jute-1-of-1.jpg" /></a><br />The internet is quite talkative at the moment.  The coffee sliver of the internet anyway.  Lots of talk about seasonality, which is a good thing. This does beg the question &#8211; how long is coffee good for?  Green coffee I mean &#8211; we&#8217;re still arguing about roasted coffee&#8217;s shelf life and... text/html 2010-02-05T09:15:37+00:00 http://www.jimseven.com/ http://www.jimseven.com/2010/02/05/aerated-coffee/ <a href="http://www.jimseven.com/2010/02/05/aerated-coffee/"><img src="http://www.jimseven.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/vinturi-1-of-1.jpg" /></a><br />I&#8217;ve another post coming on why I blog, but this reason deserved a post in its own right.  A few days ago Shaun dropped me an e-mail about the Vinturi.  He&#8217;d played with it a little bit and thought it was interesting, and thought it might be something that would... text/html 2010-02-03T00:12:00+00:00 http://blog.cafeevoke.com/ http://blog.cafeevoke.com/2010/02/extreme-makeover-home-edition.html <a href="http://blog.cafeevoke.com/2010/02/extreme-makeover-home-edition.html"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/4325570068_b6051e81f8.jpg" /></a><br />When we heard that the show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was teaming up with Oklahoma City based builders Ideal Homes for an upcoming episode, we knew we needed to do something to help. After a few days of phone calls and talking through what the needs of the volunteers... text/html 2010-02-01T11:35:45+00:00 http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/ http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/this-is-not-your-fathers-corn-muffin/ <a href="http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/this-is-not-your-fathers-corn-muffin/"><img src="http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee46/muddydog_photos/Blog%20Photos/muffin_bacon.jpg" /></a><br />Coupla snow days + unlimited roasted cornmeal = truly inspired corn muffins I have to admit, I&#8217;ve been developing this recipe in my head for a couple weeks now.  Our roasted cornmeal has inspired several dishes in our household, like this one, and this one.  But the quest for the killer... text/html 2010-02-01T02:45:34+00:00 http://www.jimseven.com/ http://www.jimseven.com/2010/01/31/how-much-coffee-do-you-drink/ <a href="http://www.jimseven.com/2010/01/31/how-much-coffee-do-you-drink/"><img src="http://www.jimseven.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/daily-consumption.jpg" /></a><br />As I mentioned in a previous post &#8211; I get asked this question quite a lot.  So for the month of January I logged every cup of coffee I drank, using a splendid website called Daytum. So &#8211; how many coffees? In January I drank 126 cups, so on average a... text/html 2010-01-30T11:24:25+00:00 http://www.chemicallyimbalanced.org/ http://www.chemicallyimbalanced.org/2010/01/29/coffee-tree-fetishization-update/ <a href="http://www.chemicallyimbalanced.org/2010/01/29/coffee-tree-fetishization-update/"><img src="http://www.chemicallyimbalanced.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/treedead.jpg" /></a><br /> while we were out of the country, south carolina apparently experienced sooome cold, piercing even into the house. this is, we suppose, what this blog gets for barside progenitor worship.