Coffee Tao

We’re in process of trying to close on a used roasting machine…we’ve been to look at a couple of decent ones but there’s a San Franciscan in a town about 1.5 hours from Seattle that I have high hopes for. We were supposed to go take a look at it yesterday but unfortunately an […]

An article in the New York Times highlights the Blue Bottle Cafe in San Francisco and its interesting recent purchase–a $20,000 coffee brewing contraption imported from Japan.
Using halogen lamps for heat and enough glass bulbs to make any mad scientist proud, the “siphon bar” as its called uses a brewing principle similar to a stove-top […]

Even if, coffee-wise, you’ve been keeping your ear to the ground these past few months, you might have missed the press release that came out in November announcing the founding of R Miguel Coffees and its, er, unique method of marketing.
In almost any industry requiring a degree of craft, from making cupcakes to speaker boxes, […]

If you’ve been wondering why I’ve been a little quieter these past few weeks, I assure you it’s not because I’m drifting away or losing interest.
In fact, it’s very much the opposite: I’m excited to tell you that I’m in process of procuring a proper location in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, WA, for […]

If you thought there weren’t nearly enough coffees being created from animal dung, now we have Jacu Bird coffee from South America. Like the palm civet that creates Kopi Luwak coffee, the Jacu flies through Brazilian coffee plantations picking (in theory) the ripest coffee cherries and passing the seeds undigested, which are then […]

As you may or may not know, Starbucks–in their continuing all-out war on the trade language–has recently taken to branding some of their drinks with what they call the “skinny platform”. Now when you order a “skinny drink”, you get not only skim milk but sugar-free syrups and no whip, or other similar modifications […]