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Drinking Honduras coffee for a good cause

A friend of a friend recently came back to Springfield after a mission trip to Honduras.  She brought back a pound of Honduran coffee she picked up while in Honduras, and my friend passed it to me to try it out.  The whole concept of selling origin coffee to benefit a charity in the country [...]

A Tanzania coffee side-by-side: Heroes vs. Intelligentsia

Recently I’ve been sampling the roasts from Heroes Coffee, a local coffee roaster based here in Springfield, Missouri.  Heroes Coffee also owns the Heroes Coffee Cafe located at the corner of National Avenue and Chestnut Expressway in Springfield, which is one of the shops taking part in our 417Coffee Disloyalty Card.   It’s the best location [...]

KY3 news coverage of the 417Coffee Disloyalty Card

Thanks to the diligence of KY3 News reporter Marie Saavedra, the 6 p.m. newscast of the KY3 News out of Springfield, Missouri, featured a news feature piece on the 417Coffee Disloyalty Card that we launched last Friday.  The video is below:

I received a tweet on Monday from Marie asking if we could meet up to [...]

Announcing the 417Coffee Disloyalty Card

Today I’m excited to announce the launch of the 417Coffee Disloyalty Card!
What’s a disloyalty card, you ask?  We’ve all used loyalty cards before — a punch card or swipe card that encourages you to visit the same coffee shop over and over for some kind of benefit or perk once you buy the right amount [...]

Portland chocolate company creates single origin “coffee bar”

Elizabeth Montes of Sagahun, a small chocolate producer based in Portland, Oregon, has taken the concept of a chocolate bar and converted it into a chocolate-like bar make of coffee, effectively a “coffee bar”.

Featured on the New York Times site today, the new KA-POW! bar is a concoction based on the idea that you can [...]

Reports: Rendezvous Coffee Lounge now closed

This morning I received reports that Rendezvous Coffee Lounge located in downtown Springfield, Missouri at 320 Park Central West is now closed.
Last week, I was asked a few times if I had heard any reports that Rendezvous might be closing, but I hadn’t heard anything.  Rendezvous hasn’t generally been in my circuit of shops that [...]

Finland is the coffee king

Business Week has released a list ranking countries by coffee consumption per capita (yes, that per person for those who don’t do Latin).  My first surprise was that the United States doesn’t even fall in the top 10.  The United States is number 16 with 105.9 liters per person of annual coffee consumption.  That’s less [...]

Rainy days? Just use your coffee cup holder umbrella

It’s been rainy here in the Missouri Ozarks for several days, and we’re expecting more on the way.  But South Korean designer Jung-Woo Lee of ekdesign has created a way for you to enjoy your coffee and stay out of the rain as well in hopes of surviving the Springfield downpour of 2010.  He’s designed [...]

Espresso tutorial video from Intelligentsia

Thanks to @marscafe on Twitter, I just stumbled upon this Espresso 101 video from Intelligentsia. This is a basic explanation of the process of making espresso in very simple, understandable terms. Anyone who makes espresso knows that this subject matter is as deep as it is wide, but this is one of the [...]

A $12 cup of coffee? Not so crazy

Who knew all a coffee shop needed to do to make national news is offer a $12 cup of coffee? Crazy!
Over the last couple of days, Cafe Grumpy in New York City has gone viral for offering a $12 cup of coffee. This featured brew is a cup of Ethiopian Nekisse from the [...]