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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 [...]
Announcing the 417Coffee Google Map
I’ve been working up a 417Coffee Google Map for some time. I did some updating today, and I decided I should make the link public.
This map is an attempt to lay out all of the shops that focus on coffee in the 417 area code in these Missouri Ozarks. It’s easy for us to get [...]
Latte art throwdown #2 scheduled for May 23
It’s official! After some discussion between several Springfield coffee shops, we’ll get to enjoy another Latte Art Throwdown amongst local baristas in the near future.
Dancing Mule Coffee, located at 1945 South Glenstone Avenue in Springfield, Missouri, (in the shopping center just north of the Brown Derby Wine Center and Aunt Martha’s Pancake House) will be [...]
Analyzing coffee vs. enjoying coffee
If you haven’t noticed, I really love coffee, and I love every aspect of it. From the fruit of the coffee tree with its beans dried to green perfection, to the sweet smell of coffee roast smoke as the coffee beans are browned to the roast profile of preference, to the aroma from the grinder [...]
The Vacuum Pot
If you get a chance, be sure to stop by The Hub located in Springfield, Missouri, just north of Boonville and Chestnut. The Hub is a unique coffee shop in several ways. The owner, Jason Strother, focuses on manual coffee brew methods. One of the Hub’s brewing methods is the Vacuum Pot, which brews a [...]
Notes & photos from today’s Coffee Ethic cupping
This morning, The Coffee Ethic in downtown Springfield, Missouri hosted a coffee cupping for a small group of tasters. Our friend Adie Williams took part in the cupping, which used coffee beans roasted by PT’s Coffee out of Topeka, Kansas, and she’s submitted the following cupping notes and photos from the event. Thanks to Adie [...]
Single origin Burundi coffee poured over ice
Today I stopped by Hebrews Coffee on Republic Road in Springfield, Missouri to get a single-origin coffee brewed via pourover. Kevin Roy, who runs Hebrews, suggested I try it iced instead of hot. That sounded intriguing. He told me that a couple days ago, he tried the Ethiopia Sidama Ardi from PT’s [...]
Make your own drip pourover station
A method of brewing coffee that is growing in popularity is manual pourover drip. This method involves pouring hot water from a hot water kettle through a pourover filter cone coffee dripper (such as the Hario V60 Ceramic Coffee Dripper, the Frieling Cilio Porcelain No. 4 Filter Holder dripper, or the Melitta Perfect Brew Filter [...]
In support of hand grinding your coffee
A couple days ago, Oliver Strand of the New York Times Magazine blog offered his support for hand grinding coffee. I strongly agree with Strand’s stance on this matter.
Years ago, after buying pre-ground coffee for a while, like most people who delve into the world of grinding whole bean coffee, I started grinding my own [...]
Coffee Guru now open in Willard
The Springfield-Greene County Library District does a good job of integrating coffee shops in with its libraries, and they have done it again with the newly-opened Willard library branch. On March 4, the Coffee Guru coffee shop opened alongside the Willard branch of the library at 304 East Jackson, Suite A, in Willard. I don’t [...]
