Ashville seems to be something of an odd place considering its location. I wasn’t aware of its reputation as being one of the more relaxed, liberal (though I hate the word) cities in the South, but when you get there it does have a very different feel. I also appreciated the rocking chairs [...]
I confess I knew more about Counter Culture’s coffee than I did about the company itself. I was excited to visit their roastery and also we were honoured to stay in the House of Chang.
I also confess that the change in the clocks caught me off guard and it took me a little while [...]
Washington’s event was the first one in a Counter Culture training centre, and I was curious to see how it would be set up. We were due to cup at 10, but first we headed to a place called Tryst for a little breakfast and coffee (thank you David, for coffee and for suffering [...]
A look back over the last 12 months, and all things coffee that have happened within them (both to me and others). World Championships, origin trips and other competitions as well as other coffee-centric highpoints of the year 2007.
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Missing the 101 down the coast, and taking the I-5 may turn out to be one of the few regrets of this trip but the thought that 2 weeks wasn’t enough was hardly new to our journey.
The route down is quite boring with occaisonal pockets of beauty. It must be a road full of accidents [...]
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Being on the road like this is far more draining than I expected. Dragging ourselves out of bed the next morning was difficult and we rolled into Ritual mid morning. They knew we were coming but we still ended up spending 5 minutes casting furtive glances across the room at Chris Baca who [...]
Halfway through the 640 mile drive the answer to the question of why we didn’t fly this leg instead of driving it was finally answered. The view had been pretty as we headed south through Oregon but it took crossing a truly beautiful lake to finally put doubts to rest.
We’d left Portland mid morning, instead [...]
We arrived into Portland in time to shower, feel human for half an hour and then head into town to meet various peoples for a beer or two.
I have no idea what the bar was but it was a great place. The beer (Ninkasi I think – some wise Portlander should probably correct me) [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Cafe Review, Coffee, Espresso, Latte Art, News, Opinion | Also tagged cappuccino, Coffee, Espresso, Latte Art, seattle, vivace |
Well, I confess I have been very quiet of late. It is a mixture of traveling a lot, taking a lot of pictures, having no laptop (until the Macbook I acquired today – I do love a weak dollar!) and generally being a bit of a burnt out mess. Thankfully I have been [...]
