Coffee for August 31 2009 Rocket Fuel Esmeralda · Monday August 31, 2009 by colin newell
What: Caballeriza (Kah-ba-yeh-ree-sah)
Where: Region: Jaramillo
How Altitude: 1,500M
Taste: Wild strawberries, intense licorice, blueberries and red currant in
the cup, this is an intensely aromatic coffee, coming from one of the
new production areas in Jaramillo.
Extras: Los Mario: Carnaval, San José and Pascua
Region: Jaramillo
Altitude: 1,500-1,650M
Our traditional, award winning Esmeralda Special comes from the area
known as Mario. This year, north and south of the creek are not
separated, and the coffee is grouped by harvest dates.
Notes from Cigar smoking coffee diva Lisa Rotenberg of RocketFuel Coffee.Com Toronto, Canada.
Thanks for the samples. We were blown away. If you love coffee and plan on tasting everything you can, Panama Esmeralda La Hacienda is a must-drink cup o java!
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Fall Colors Canadian Style 2009 WBC Regionals Victoria results · Monday August 31, 2009 by colin newell
Results from Da Vinci center on Bay Street in Victoria B.C. Canada
1. Kyle Straw from Cafe Artigiano Vancouver 628 pts
2. Spencer V from JJ Bean Vancouver 624 pts
3. Derek Lucas from Buon Amicis Victoria 608.5 pts
4. Rob Kettner from Fernwood Victoria 599 pts
5. Ian from Habitat 474.5 pts
6. John Orn 465 pts
Seen in passing: Reg Barber with a mile wide smile, Logan Gray, John Riopka, Geir and Carsen Oglend, Sam Jones of 2% Jazz, Andrew Khoo of Khona Coffee, Curtis of Sounds Like Coffee, Paul Reimer of Disco, Sammy Piccolo at all times and in all places, Rob Kettner competing and kicking ass, Derek Lucas making the Victoria crew proud, Ken Gordon of Street Level looking as ultra-cool as anyone can, The ever friendly Oughtreds, inventor of the London Fog – Garreth of Canterbury Coffee, Mickey McLeod of Salt Spring Island Coffee, David Evans of The Stick looking taller still, Shane of HABIT looking slightly less tired than yesterday, Tristan Mapstone of DRUMROASTER being real, Mark Engels of Bubbyroses Bakery, Mark Prince with cameras around his neck, Ryan and Christie Taylor of Cafe Fantastico, my dear wife with a good book in her hand, Gina Lucas glowing with pride, and so on and so on…
More as I remember.
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Fall Colors Canadian Style 2009 WBC Da Vinci Hall duking kitties · Saturday August 29, 2009 by colin newell
Spent part of the day at the WBC Regional cham-peen-ships semi-finals (I guess) at the Da Vinci center over on Bay Street – all the best of the best and the big playa’s in the bidness were there; Geir Oglend, Reg Barber, Sam Jones, Dave Evans (Stickman), Ryan Taylor, Derek of Buon Amici’s coffee, some of the fine folks at Discovery, cats from Street Level Espresso, the Oughtreds, Khona Coffee people, Chris from Machines N Beans, Gareth from Canterbury, and many many more…
Barista’s came from far and wide, one gal from Whitehorse in the Yukon gave her all. Some pictures over here – Back tomorrow for more of the great caffeine powered excitement.
Driving home and coming up to our shack on Belmont avenue, noticed the two elderly street cats – their combined ages about 126 in pussy years.
One cat had the other cat pinned to the sidewalk – pinned not really being a good word… smurfed more like it… the one cat on top using gravity and a passing breeze to its full advantage. Can imagine the conversation if translated…
“Jake, I have had enough of your sassing me all the time… say Give!”
“Noooooo… Owwwwww… Meowwwwwww.. Never jimmy… nevvvvvvverrrr-eowwww…”
I think they moved a total of 1cm in the 2 minutes I was watching in rapt boredom.
Fall Colors Canadian Style 2009 Coffee coffee OTTO Atomic more Coffee · Friday August 28, 2009 by colin newell
For lovers of great coffee…
we have a new machine… called OTTO
Simply OTTO.
And if you have been following this blog for a while, you are probably really tired of me going on about political stuff.
Trust me. I am tired of it too.
It is tedious.
So let’s get back to the spirit of a fun blog… because this used to be fun.
So check this out if you have 40+ minutes to listen to a great radio show called HAPPY STATION.
Seriously, that is what it’s called. It has actually been on the air for over 50 years. Went off for a while. Now it’s back.
Check out this podcast – that features a whole lot of chatter about coffee – specifically OTTO. It is a lot of fun – and worth your time to listen.
Be happy!
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