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I Say Good Espresso! You Say Bad Espresso!

Posted in Beverage Banter, tagged Stumptown Coffee, Intelligentsia, madison market, Victrola, fonté, lighthouse coffee, caffé vita, zoka coffee, buzz stop, cafe umbria, vivace, bartdof and bronson, café d’arté, tony’s on May 8, 2009 | Comments Off

Dixie aka Generic Coffee Cup, originally uploaded by andai. Eventually when you publicly state an opinion about something, even something like coffee, you will get those whose opinions are in strong opposition to yours and some of these folks will certainly let you know this. I find this inevitably happens when you start to share [...]

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Alex of The Fresh Pot Places First at NWRBC

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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Branding Your Coffee Business with Coffee Cup Art

Posted in Beverage Banter, Coffee Business, tagged arosa, bauhaus, bauhaus books and coffee, branding, caffè senso unico, caffé vita, Coffee Business, fonté coffee, Fuel Coffee, marketing, online coffee, stickman, stickman coffee, Stumptown, the fargonian, the fargonian coffeehouse, victrola coffee, zeitgeist coffee, zoka coffee on November 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Yesterday, Someone asked me a couple of interesting questions via the comments on one of my photos on my Flickr photostream. The questions he had basically revolved around the importance of having coffee cup art vs. just having excellent coffee served in plain white cups and how important coffee cup art was to me? Since [...]

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Ink Online Coffeehouse Experince

Posted in Beverage Banter, Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, Reviews, tagged seattle, downtown seattle, ink online coffeehouse, espresso cremona, caffé lieto, stickman coffee, borogove coffee, dismas smith, zoka coffee, rena poppell on November 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Ink Online Coffeehouse, is a tiny place on 1st Avenue that I have in the past, simply walked by without venturing in. This has been for no other reason than the place, which until recently was known as Caffe Lieto, just didn’t seem to stand out as a coffee shop worth visiting. But all this [...]

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As Stickman Coffee Comes To A Close

Posted in Beverage Banter, Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, Reviews, tagged stickman coffee, borogove coffee, dismas smith, zoka coffee, tim mccormack, seven coffee roasters, north american barista championship, nabc on November 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Just when I finally decide that I am going to check out Stickman coffee, which has a reputation for serving really excellent coffee, I find out that they are closing today. Bummer! I discovered Stickman Coffee a few months ago when I was in the Fremont area. I noticed their purple sandwich board sign pointing [...]

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