Archive for the ‘Latte Art’ Category

Recommended Coffee Reading List – Part 1

Saturday, December 26th, 2009
coffeebook

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 rather a lot of trouble, so I shall leave that for now. I’ve broken it down into two parts and then down into sections, and have indicated which are nice to have, and which I would consider are essential on that subject.

I will try and keep this one updated – if you think I’ve missed something obvious then let me know.  I haven’t recommended books I don’t own, so this means some books may be missing that you would expect to see here.

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And the absurd winner is….

Saturday, October 13th, 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 involved at Intelli LA, Espresso Warehouse will be sending you your prize (they are gonna send me a photo what they are sending that I’ll post up later).

Thanks again to everyone – it was very silly!

Which is the most absurd? You decide!

Friday, September 28th, 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 as Arthurs. In cases where ideas were done by two people the first to submit went in. If I have missed anything let me know!

Here they are:

Vote:

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If I have forgotten something (because I put this together quite quickly today) then nominate it for the pole – though do double check that it isn’t there before adding it please.

Anyone who feels ignored – sorry! It wasn’t on purpose!

Just to warn you – IP tracking is on, so that should stop people voting repeatedly. I will close the voting when I get back from Russia on the 8th of October. Vote now! Get your friends to vote! Family! Coworkers!

I will see if I can add to the stuff Espresso Warehouse are giving away as the prize.

NBC 2007

Monday, September 24th, 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. I spent the first day catching up with people, which is a crucial part of the whole thing for me. I missed a few of the lectures (The Nespresso one on sustainability for example – more on their presence later) though I enjoyed listening to Roberto Bendana from Cafes de Nicaragua, who talked with Stephen Hurst.

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We’ll see your mouth and raise you an ear

Sunday, September 16th, 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:

rosetta in arthur's ear

There isn’t much space to pour and this is the best I managed.  My rosettas didn’t really work out that well:

Stephen almost nailed a great heart a couple of times but the fear of pouring milk all over Arthur’s face meant the pull through suffered:

I think the look on people’s faces seeing us doing this in the middle of a trade show, while people were setting up made it all worth while….

Except maybe for Arthur:

(Whilst this is for the Absurd Latte Art comp we obviously aren’t eligible to win).

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

Thursday, September 6th, 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!  The nice people at Espresso Warehouse stepped up!  Will announce the prize in the next related post.
So – more, more, more! (please)

In other news Ola’s part three is up, and I hopefully have a really cool project to post about soon.

Absurd Latte Art update

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Just a quick round up of the stuff people have submitted in my call for milk based nonsense:

Tim Styles (Tropical Saloon):

latte art in a saucer

Perrys Karavas (Flickr page):

latte art in a ladel

Grendel (Cafe Grendel):


Conrad (Flickr page):

latte art in a gravy boat

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 can, find an odd vessel and pour some art in it and leave me a link or message in the comments.

(I am still gutted our plan to pour something through Arthur’s ears in Tokyo never came off – Arthur, if you are reading this then you have to get someone to do it!)

(If I have missed anyone out let me know!)