Archive for category ‘mad coffee jaunts’
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
the cultish thrum of stumptown orders you around, like a badgering shoulder angel.
pretend you've been here before -- DON'T scan the furniture. sit at this uber-sleek window bar ... it's where the dressier people hang. maybe text someone. don't EVER study the menu board. act as if it's perfectly ...
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
Stumptown roaster steven (stephen?) drops panama carmen estate hot from the antique probat into blog's waiting arms! Score. Barista vet jen prince shoves ethiopia misty valley in blog's gaping, shamless maw. score!
thanks to blog's texty cohorts who pointed us toward the basement. four hours down, and we're speeding (spro-eding?) toward ...
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
High now - like everyone else in sea-town! Of interest: The zoka kiosk is MUCH less hopping than the vivace one @ same corner.
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
Stumptown capp - never has this blog been so grapefruit bludgeoned. where's the choc?
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
its total seclusion complete (the coffee controversies of the day? whaa?), this blog finds itself in a taxi proximal to coffee mecca -- where the maccs from vivace are aliiive.
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
the most startling southeast coffee tourist this blog has ever seen ...
sparky. there is now a southeastern coffee tourist. he and his ma blew through shannon's c-n-c while we were jaw-hanging in front of the usbc live feed. so startling, really, we didn't have much of a reaction. hoffmann did ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
charleston 2day: the orangest cafe ever. And sweet nutty shots of zoka's paladino. S.C.'s 3rd worthy joint: metto.
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
nothing like a wee latte art throwdown -- including some first-timers -- and a surprise winner over heavyweight zombie pourer chris owens. not excruciatingly long. mostly comradic. and suthin' style.
some snivelling apologies to octane's competition-tested danielle and ben. scant footage of them both, because danielle poured at the opposite ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
"It's been one of my favorite things in coffee -- to feel stupid. I like it."
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Something about this blog and historic storms. In atlanta to hear hoffmann, marble sized hail falling. Ow.
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
forbidden yirgacheffe, on nate the finger's home bar.
when a week of spro tripping morphs largely into a survey of home bars, it's either a sign of this blog's emerging homebody clinginess or a commentary on the quiet consistency spreading among the junkies -- not genius, typically, but more and more ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
there's an intersection somewhere in the urban entrails of cincinnati that urgently needs a french bakery -- some crusty baguettes, st. andre cheese and general store items. pipe tobacco. lozenges. opposite, a hulking stone basilica now dominates one corner of this intersection, its blithe amber dome windows confronting a rare ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
The total eclipse of the world has ended. Headed south midst the thaw, and think maybe jon lewis and his team are pretty decent coffee-type persons.
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Sweet mother sparky. It'S an interstate white-out, and we'Ve got our scaredy teeth clamped to the steering wheel.
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Nuthin good in indiana - 'cept nate the finger'S home bar. On to our snowy Cincy bash with barista-poet jon lewis.
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UPDATE FROM A NON-MOBILE DEVICE: did we mention the severe storm advisory blanketing cincinnati for the exact time of our scheduled ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Feeling better, headed east. Alas, we'Ll miss chicago fave metropolis, which closes at 8. Isn'T that, like, rush hour?!
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
somewhere between alterra's lakeside location and the prospect spot, this blog's neck glands signaled pending disaster, and by nightfall we were swallowing jagged shards of pottery, convalescing with oolong in a leather chair and offering to pay the blogbrother to drive us back to chicago. not the ideal development in ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
The milwaukee spro - yeasty. Loads of hops. Hey, it'S a beer town. The ppl - way nice.
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
This blog is on the road. The week o' feckless spro tripping is underway. Next stop: milwaukee'S alterra.
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
well beyond two weeks post-roast, this blog stuggles still to communicate to you the subtleties of lem butler's competition espresso blend. heightening the mystery: a pragmatic decision to pull much of it with the lever machine at the studio of the bioluminescent cypriot, where a gaggle of the man's indentured ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
this blog stands corrected: there was, it would appear, at least one media reference to clearwater's SERBC -- which briefly features greenville's alex! (watch the video; hat tip, the zombie)
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
at this rate, there may not be an audience for next year's southeast regional barista competition. you could just hold the thing in my back shed. at one point during a compelling and unpredictable final round, i counted 13 people in the seats. thirteen. i met most of them, and ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
this blog was going to attempt to relay to you the depth of emotional investment by c-n-c's shannon hudgens and his mother in their inaugural barista competition. zombie chris owens saves us the trouble by capturing the moment, after round one, when the underdog discovers he's made the finals.
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
UPDATE: katie did the murky thing -- studious, poised, no-nonsense espresso. the sig was lavender-infused, and involved cocoa butter.
she got the raw end of more than one technical snafu, most notably when her music sputtered to start the finals routine. she called the toscano espresso "my greatest teacher in coffee" ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
UPDATE: as spoofed in last year's puppet show, michelle is an utter dynamo from a cafe we can vouch for who, ah, adores competing. it's quite funny, really. she grins and lectures and pulls shots with all the lumbering ponderance of a hummingbird. a hummingbird with muscles. espresso machines under ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
note: the vid cuts off early, for some reason. 'twill be fixed.
UPDATE: you already know what we think about shannon, the mall kiosker from greenville so effusively lauded in the fresh-printed issue of barista mag.
word is, he got low finals marks because the daring espresso he chose to use ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
UPDATE: ben's deal was very understated, very simple and confident. the sig, apparently, was based on a favorite childhood con -- cajoling his ma to buy sweets. ha-ha! she was partial to cherry cordial, and so were the judges. rumor has it ben's cherry cordial sig was both very sweet ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
the blog doggedly stalks mr. sexy foam!
recently infamous CI commenter "true" offers SERBC pics from his vantage point as a dish runner and covert beverage taster. after finally meeting the marketer-come-espresso-junkie, this blog can definitively say: he's got the disease!
in fact, the man's generously offered laptop might have been our ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
UPDATE: the owens-trained, third-place finisher danielle was so nervous in round one, this blog thought she might ingest some of her ceramic wares. this finals performance marks a substantial improvement in nerves and a sparkling sig beverage idea -- a coffee version of a gin martini.
essentially, we're talking a darjeeling ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
UPDATE: to the untrained eye, lem appeared to take fastidious care not to earn himself another nickname. the trademark quirky declarations about blow torches and nemeses and the shapeliness of his milk foam were strangely missing. we blame his employer -- that bastion of soulless corporate culture -- for homogenizing ...
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