Category Archives: Latte Art

Recommended Coffee Reading List – Part 1

By James Hoffmann | Published: December 26, 2009

Back in 2006 I published a recommended reading list. Since that time my collection of books has (worryingly) increased so I thought I should probably update it. I could easily write a list of coffee books that one should avoid (having learned the hard way) but I suspect that would get me into [...]

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And the absurd winner is….

By James Hoffmann | Published: October 13, 2007

Mouth!

The voting is now closed and I think we have a clear winner. You guys picked the mouth shot but I have to say thank you to everyone who voted and entered, it was wonderfully silly and I will have to think of another absurd challenge of some sort soon.
So congratulations to the guys [...]

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Which is the most absurd? You decide!

By James Hoffmann | Published: September 28, 2007

OK – voting time everybody. I’ve been threatening to do this for some time, so now I’ve picked 12 pours for you to choose a winner from.
They were chosen for originality, quality of the pour and plain silliness. Please rank them with that in mind. The one I poured is being entered [...]

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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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We’ll see your mouth and raise you an ear

By James Hoffmann | Published: September 16, 2007

By now I am sure everyone has seen the very awesome pours by the Intelli LA crew up on Tony’s blog.
Hanging out with Arthur today the opportunity came up to mess about with Arthur’s ears.  These are the results:

There isn’t much space to pour and this is the best I managed.  My rosettas didn’t really [...]

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The Absurd Latte Art contest (voting, prizes, etc)

By James Hoffmann | Published: September 6, 2007

OK – there are now lots of lovely submissions coming in so I will say we’ll close the entries in about a week, turn it into a little competition and I will pick a dozen and create a poll for you to choose from and the best one wins.
EDIT – we now have a sponsor!  [...]

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Absurd Latte Art update

By James Hoffmann | Published: August 31, 2007

Just a quick round up of the stuff people have submitted in my call for milk based nonsense:
Tim Styles (Tropical Saloon):

Perrys Karavas (Flickr page):

Grendel (Cafe Grendel):

Conrad (Flickr page):

And of course there is Anette, Stephen, Jenny and I and our art in hands:

All of this is great, but I want more! MORE!
So please, if you [...]

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A slightly absurd latte art challenge

By James Hoffmann | Published: July 21, 2007

The challenge is simple – pour latte art in something unusual and post a link in the comments or use trackback.

I’ve been thinking about this for a little while and was inspired by a few amusing pours like these:
Tonx:

Owl3:

If enough people get into it then maybe there will be some sort of pointless prize suiting [...]

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The Roadtrip – Seattle

By James Hoffmann | Published: June 13, 2007

With sadness we left Anette behind for a day as she had to collect her visa and the rest of us ventured down in the United States of the Americas.  It was nice there – warm, sunny and not as cold and mean/rainy as Vancouver had been.

We went up to Elysian Brewing for some beers [...]

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Messing around with some glass cups

By James Hoffmann | Published: February 21, 2007

Wandered into town today having seen that Starbucks were giving away free coffee between 2pm and 4pm.  Turns out it was part of FairTrade fortnight (let’s not get into ethics or labelling in coffee) and they were giving away a tall cup of their Cafe Estima blend.  I timed it just right for the first [...]

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