In Coffee News Notable ArticlesThe first 417 Latte Art Throwdown competition was a big hit last night! Thirteen baristas representing 7 different coffee shops competed for the title of best latte artist in the Springfield area.
The event was hosted by The Coffee Ethic in downtown Springfield, Missouri, and was sponsored by PT’s Coffee, a coffee roaster out of Topeka, Kansas, [...]
Tonight at 7 p.m. at The Coffee Ethic on Park Central Square in Springfield, Missouri, I’ll be one of the judges for the 417 Latte Art Throwdown contest. This event came together through conversations between the guys who run The Coffee Ethic, Dancing Mule Coffee, Hebrews Coffee and The Hub Bike and Beans, and I’m [...]
When thinking a barista “expressing art”, many times we simply think of latte art. This is true, but we must not forget the primary art form of the barista, which lies in the espresso.
In mechanics, we learn to control systems through automation. The idea is to control all variables for a consistent desired outcome. For [...]
After class tonight, I decided to stop by The Hub for a sweet treat. I ordered a vanilla latte, instead of my standard caramel.
Before the barista (I think his name is Jason) began to make my drink he realized they ran out of vanilla earlier in the day. So I said I’d just take a [...]
Jon Freihofer has been a foundational character and a competent barista at The Coffee Ethic in Springfield, Missouri for as long as I can remember. Jon’s affection for great coffee, his brilliant tattoos, his artistic style, and his modest but sincere personality have added character to the Ethic’s coffee shop mystique in his time there, [...]
This week, Rogersville-based coffee roaster Ed Kuhlman tweeted an article from Australia titled “Your choice in coffee says much about you” that I found humorous but also pretty accurate as well. An excerpt from the new book, The You Code, the article involves the work of body language experts Judi James and James Moore [...]
It’s official! We finally have the first open invitation Latte Art Throwdown scheduled in southwest Missouri. Over the past several weeks, I have heard parts of discussions on the matter with details here and there, but today I finally got an invite to the event.
This latte art throwdown has been scheduled for Sunday [...]
This morning I got rejected from two of the nine graduate programs I applied to. One, I fully expected, being one of the most competitive programs in creative writing in the country. The other, well, let’s just say my head got a little big for my britches (I’m not even using puns right at this [...]
Everybody I know who drinks coffee has a favorite coffee mug. It’s funny how we get sentimental about coffee mugs, but I definitely have mine, pictured here (slightly out of focus). I actually have a favorite mug when I’m drinking coffee at home on the weekends and then a favorite thermal mug that I [...]
Pictured here is my afternoon espresso shot from The Hub Bike and Beans (@insidethehub on Twitter), located north of Chestnut Expressway on Boonville in downtown Springfield, Missouri. They serve Intelligentsia’s Black Cat Classic espresso blend, pulled using a lever-driven espresso machine.
On Friday, I bought a quarter pound of Black Cat beans from the Hub, and [...]
Daniel at Daniel’s World of Coffee posted a review on the Zoka coffee shop in Kirkland, Washington in the Seattle area. On first look, I was about to be unimpressed because it’s another coffee shop in the Seattle area that’s making good coffee, but something about this review hit me differently. What he’s really trying [...]
Tonight I was surfing through the coffee podcast and videocast scene, and I stumbled upon a video post by CoffeeNate in which he reviews Kuhlman’s Koffee, which originates from the roaster of Ed Kuhlman in Nixa, Missouri. Very cool! Ed’s a good guy who knows more about the coffee industry than I’ve forgotten, so it [...]
The St. Petersburg Times had a day of coffee features yesterday, and it ended up producing some pretty informational articles.
First was an article about the lingo of coffee tasting. Tasting coffee in a group setting — called cupping — can be somewhat intimidating, but I find that it’s one of my favorite ways to [...]
My buddy Sean Hunziker, who owns the Coffee Rush drive thru stand on Highway 14 in Nixa, is quickly moving into fulltime coffee roasting under the name Ozark’s Coffee Co. You can track him on Twitter as OzarksCoffee. Sean has been moving into roasting in the past few years, and he has really jumped [...]
