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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What does your coffee say about you?
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 [...]
The latest Black Cat espresso from Intelligentsia
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 [...]
Springfield News-Leader features The Hub Bikes & Beans
Today’s Springfield News-Leader ran a story about The Hub Bikes and Beans, commonly known as The Hub. It’s one of the newest coffee shops in Springfield, located at 811 North Boonville, just north of Chestnut Expressway on Boonville. A store with a relaxed downtown feel, The Hub combines BMX bikes and manually-brewed high-quality coffees and [...]
Vintage Paris in Hollister, Missouri
I spent most of my Saturday today in Branson. In wrapping up some time walking on Branson Landing, my wife was craving a Sonic drink. I did a quick Google Maps check on my Blackberry and decided the closest Sonic was in Hollister. I haven’t driven through downtown Hollister in a long while, although we [...]
Traci’s self-portait latte art
Traci, one of the baristas at Big Momma’s on Commercial Street in Springfield, really enjoyed herself yesterday. Their espresso was pulling some great shots, and she says she drank 4 lattes throughout the afternoon because it was so good. In the process, she ended up making a self-portrait in her latte’s steamed milk at one [...]
