Category Archives: Blogs

Who can you trust?

By James Hoffmann | Published: November 29, 2009

I have been thinking about this topic for a while, but a post over on Jamie Goode’s blog has inspired me to write a little something.
I get fairly numerous emails from a variety companies asking me to post about their products.  I generally ignore these emails.  More recently some have come with financial incentives – [...]

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Sprudge makes a good point

By James Hoffmann | Published: September 14, 2009

For those of you unfamiliar with The Sprudge Report – shame on you!  The site is a splendid piece of awesome put together by Zachary.  The latest headline makes a very valid point, relevant to more than just the four bloggers mentioned.  (Screenshot, because I worry the link won’t work by tomorrow!

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This ever expanding blog

By James Hoffmann | Published: October 29, 2007

This week a small change caused me to go back and have a look at the growth of this website. It was a small change, good only in a geeky way: My google page rank went up to 5.
I know, I know – not very interesting. However it caused me to have [...]

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The current state of coffee blogging

By James Hoffmann | Published: September 30, 2007

This is really just something that struck me this evening.  Back when I started blogging there were really only two or three blogs that I read about coffee – Gauperaa, Tacy and Veldkamp seemed the only voices shouting loud enough for me to find them.  It seems a lot has changed since.
Over at Barismo they [...]

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NBC 2007

By James Hoffmann | Published: September 24, 2007

First of all – Congratulations Sweden! I think they are a really lovely group of people and a very deserving team of winners.
Second of all – this is a big post. It looks huge but it is mostly pictures – honest!
This was my second Nordic Barista Cup and I enjoyed it a lot. [...]

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An interesting storage experiment

By James Hoffmann | Published: August 30, 2007

Going on within Tim Wendelboe’s roastery and blogged about here.   Worth keeping an eye on….

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Zell Speaks!

By James Hoffmann | Published: June 27, 2007

I am at a loss with what to do about my blogroll. The complete blogs links page is proving a pain to update (I am just lazy) and it is pretty buried amongst other posts. I would have added this blog to it, but I think it is gonna be one to watch [...]

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Complete Blog links page

By James Hoffmann | Published: May 1, 2007

These are all the coffee blogs I am currently reading in my RSS reader (the mighty Vienna)
I got rid of the categories because many coffee blogs don’t fit them too well. Instead they are now vaguely alphabetized:
If I’ve gotten something wrong, or you want the link removed or anything leave a comment or drop [...]

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Thank you to CoffeeCrew

By James Hoffmann | Published: November 24, 2006

For the very kind words – coffeecrew is a great website, and they have been going since 1994. If you haven’t had a little explore – wander over there now….

[tags]blogs, coffee, coffee blogs[/tags]

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Teme’s Grinder analysis

By James Hoffmann | Published: September 20, 2006

Something I’d like to know more about, especially as there is a real lack of solid information on grinding in the industry – Teme has done a very interesting little grinder comparison.
Well worth a look – here
[tags]grinding coffee, coffee grinders[/tags]

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