November 2010
4 posts
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Thoughts: Communicating the Life of Coffee
I try and keep my life working for Intelligentsia at Millennium Park and my writings for Bitter Press separate. Bitter Press is my home-brewing outlet, and a lot of it is certainly informed by things I’ve experienced at work, but I want this to be an independent thing.
At the same time, this is totally awesome. If you haven’t already clicked the link, I’ll tell you what it is....
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Reviews: Coava's Kone Filter
I’ve been listening lately to the Planet Money podcast, in which they have been talking a little about American manufacturing. After visiting a button maker and a place that manufactures connectors (those little gold pieces of whatever that connect different components on circuit boards), the Planet Money team found that American manufacturing mainly succeeds in the case where innovation and...
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Linkage: Latte Art Article Up on Fresh Cup
Short post going here to link you nice folks to an article I wrote about latte art for Fresh Cup Magazine. In it, I talk about whether or not the bitterness of crema is highlighted by latte art, and how we should approach latte art responsibly, using basis from James Hoffman’s videos, and a short interview with Mike Philips. You can see the entire current issue of Fresh Cup here, with my...
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Reviews: Mypressi Twist
When I first shifted Bitter Press over to the coffee blog it deserved to be instead of a loose mish-mash of whatever, I had one simple directive: accessible brewing methods that can both improve the coffee that professionals are making themselves at home, and can help introduce new home brewers to fantastic coffee. I can’t think of a single espresso device that does the job better than the...