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U.K. barista champion and fellow coffee blogger James Hoffmann just returned from a whirlwind tour of El Salvador and posted this great report and some fantastic photographs. Reading his tale has me feeling excited about my own first trip to origin which kicks off this weekend.

a couple of the stunning photos from James […]

A fundraiser is afoot for my dear friend Steve, the legendary Bay Area barista who took a spill from a 3rd story window a couple weeks back and, surviving his fall, has some major medical expenses to contend with. I know a number of my readers know Steve or know him through his photography […]

I follow a tremendous number of coffee blogs with my trusty RSS reader. There are more and more of them popping up all the time. Some are good, many are just junk blogs writing about coffee as a means of generating google ad revenue. One blog I’ve enjoyed is the far-ranging coffee […]

If the length of the list of books I’m currently reading makes you think I’m a bookworm, you’d be mistaken. I have a very short attention span when it comes to reading, and my nightstand is littered with books I slog through in small, sometimes random chunks. I figure this pile of books […]

My cohort Kyle and I paid a visit earlier this week to the folks at Portland’s incomparable Stumptown Coffee.

Cuppers line up at Stumptown’s Annex. Trainer Stephen Vick keeps his cupping spoon close at hand.
Hanging out with the Stumptown crew is always a learning experience. Good coffee, good beer, and good conversation […]

More people have viewed my coffee photographs on Flickr than have ever tasted my roasts, so it comes as no surprise when my colleagues’ first compliments have more to do with photos than espresso. Truth be told, I don’t know very much about photography. I enrolled in a photo class in high school […]

Jay Caragay of Jay’s Shave Ice prepares to win the crowd at the otherwise vanilla USBC.
Amid all the noise of the parasitical peddlers on the showfloor (business people who remain sadly ignorant of the true nature of good coffee) there were some beacons of cool shit at this years show. Its hard to come […]

Sleep was a luxury easily rejected Monday night as a suite at the Hilton belonging to Sustainable Harvest became the late night site for some serious coffee folks to extend their chatter after all the bars had given us the boot. There is an intensity of dialogue that happens when these people intersect thats […]

I’m writing this post from onboard a plane heading from Charlotte to NYC. My last minute booking has Charlotte-LGA-SEA as my route home which is certainly less than direct. My layover in New York is about 5 hours and I’m going to take a rush-hour risk and leave the airport and pay a […]

Bags of coffee in the luggage, bags under my eyes. More pics up on flickr. Its been a blast.
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