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So I’ve been a bit coy about my new gig for the last few months. Mainly because the project I’m working on still has a ways to go and there is no sense honking the horn of a car that isn’t yet on the road.
Back in April my life changing coffee roasting gig in […]

Just a few short years ago, New York City was a coffee wasteland. When I first became a coffee drinker my brew of choice was a cup of hazelnut flavored watery swill from the corner bodega. This was obtained with the magic words “coffee regular” which indicated the inclusion of a fat spoonful […]

Earlier this year my coffee companion Kyle and I jumped hemispheres for a week to lend a hand to a group of ambitious Greeks gearing up to open a serious cafe in the heart of Athens - Evergreen.

It was an intense experience. A real privilege to do work with people of such genuine […]

I get a lot of requests from people looking to use my coffee photos.

Some recent shot pulling and a damn tasty macchiato Kyle made for me.
Its flattering but I answer no to most all of them, even when I’m offered large sums of money. Most of my photos are available under a Creative […]

The crew at Cafe Grumpy had a soft opening today for their new Chelsea store - a small shop that is going to have a big impact on the nascent New York coffee scene. They’ve already played host to pre-opening events with coffee luminaries Andrew Barnett from Ecco Caffe and Peter Giuliano of North […]

An article in the current Williamette Week takes a deep look at what makes Portland possibly the most serious coffee town in the country. Much like the surprising recent NYTimes piece, this one gets a lot right (except in reference to my bio) pointing out that there is more to this “third wave” of […]

A remarkably non-cringe-inducing article in tomorrow’s New York Times on the rising New York City coffee scene is well worth reading. A number of friends in the trenches like Sam Crane, Ken Nye, Bob Peyton, Dan Griffin, and Chris Owen get name checked and there is even a video segment where Bob and Chris […]

I promised to write some sort of post Burning Man report… Lots of people. Lots of Art. Lots of fun. My old-timer cynicism eventually giving way to camaraderie and mayhem. The pound of Panama Thatcher’s Reserve I brought from Zoka made some fantastic cowboy coffee in camp and neighbor Brokeback […]

Residents of the Eastlake neighborhood no doubt still wince when passing by the construction site where the small but world-reknown Hines Public Market Coffee once stood. But directly across the street from that sad hole in the earth a new hope went live today in the form of Sitka & Spruce’s first day of […]

I’ve just returned from another round of travels and had the good fortune to spend some additional time with the people of Chicago’s Intelligentsia Coffee. Intelli’s senior bean geek Geoff Watts was the focus of an illuminating article on their green coffee sourcing in Thursday’s New York Times business section.
Geoff recently penned […]