Posted in Beverage Banter, tagged 49th parallel, britich columbia, burnaby, burnaby bc, caffè artigiano, canada, Coffee, government street, gwilym davis, habit coffee, kaladi brothers, latte, murchies, murchies tea & coffee, oregon, portland, private reserve, private reserve espresso blend, sammy piccolo, scuie, seattle, Stumptown, trabant coffee, Trabant Coffee & Chai, Vancouver, victoria, victoria bc, Washington State on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Image Title: 143/365 – Coffee break
Originally uploaded by, and used with permissions from kennymatic.
I discovered Caffé Artigiano a few years ago on one of my first trips to Vancouver BC. At that time I really didn’t know much about the coffee they served other than the fact that I thought the coffee was good. [...]
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Posted in Beverage Banter, tagged 2009 nwrbc, albina press, batdorf & bronson, blend coffee, coffee bean international, coffee house 5, competition, dillanos, espresso parts, espresso parts nw, lava java, little red bike café, mon ami café, northwest regional barista competition, nuova simonelli, nwrbc, olympia coffee roasOng, portland, ridgefield, satellite café, scaa, seattle, specialty coffee association of america, stumptown coffee roasters, tacoma, temple theatre, the albina press, the fresh pot, trabant coffee, victrola coffee, zoka coffee, zoka coffee roasters on January 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Alex Pond (pictured above making his signature drink) of The Fresh Pot won of the 2009 Northwest Regional Barista Competition (NWRBC). Kevin Fuller of The Albina Press and Robbie Britt of Zoka Coffee Roasters came in second and third respectively. These were the top three of the six finalists who battled it out to determine [...]
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Posted in Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, Reviews, tagged espresso, espresso machine, la marzocco, portland, seattle, Stumptown Coffee on May 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Stumptown, originally uploaded by andai.
I first heard of Stumptown last year while I was in Portland for a meeting. We had heard that there was at least two Stumptown coffee shops in the Portland area but and they were also going to be opening a store on Capital Hill in Seattle. Well they actually opened [...]
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