SCAA Seattle: Winners and Losers at the Big Coffee Show
Eleven years have passed since my first trip to the Big Show that is SCAA’s conference and expo. So much has changed! So much hasn’t.
Espresso Cocktail
Sometimes you want coffee. Sometimes you want a cocktail. Why not have both? It should be made abundantly clear this cocktail calls for a freshly pulled shot of espresso… and no, there really isn’t a substitute. Sorry.
Read moreThe knowledge of how to fight Roya, and the money for fungicide, the labor to treat it, and to cut back the trees deals a huge blow to the income and profits of the coffee farm. The real impact is on organic farms, whether certified farms or organic-by-default farms, on casual coffee farmers who have little technical knowledge, and on smallholder farms in general. In a couple crop cycles, Roya unmanaged is the death of the coffee farm.
–Tom Owen
Idled by Cancer Cure, Researchers Grope for Purpose
I guess I missed the news. Surely there’s been a spate of headlines about the discovery of a cure for cancer? For Autism? Alzheimer’s? For male pattern baldness?
Today’s Favorite Thing: Cuissential’s SlickDrip
This dripper does what your typical plastic or ceramic pour-over cone should do — namely, hold a #2 cone paper filter while you brew coffee with it — but this one collapses into a disk about an inch deep when you’re not using it to brew your precious, needful cup.
Tasting: Costa Rica Cafetalera Herbazu
…lovely, very intense, salted caramel sort of fragrance that I used to associate with great Indonesian lots years ago before they all started to taste like mulch and wood moss.
Tweetstream
- @NickCho Nick! I had no idea you were so damn lovable!
- @julia_doughty @AprilDRyan I believe there are people of goodwill who are harried by everyday life and subject to a… t.co/JOJMuowb15
- @AprilDRyan @julia_doughty When somebody is unable to understand you, shouting louder doesn’t aid their understandi… t.co/mUBCoCAoGg
- @catvalente Take all the time and space you’re require.
- RT @RileyBehrens: Earlier today, I was diagnosed as having suffered a Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA), or what's commonly known as a mini-s…
- @emptywheel Fear. They’re compromised and cornered, and fear exposure.
Follow @decadmus on twitter.