by deCadmus | Aug 22, 2011 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews, Coffee Roasting
…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.
by deCadmus | Oct 12, 2008 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews, Featured
Let’s face it. Right now the folks at Square Mile — Stephen Morrissey, James Hoffmann and Annette Moldvaer1 — could phone it in. They could source dubious coffees, call them edgy, describe them cryptically while lavishing them with praise… and...
by deCadmus | Mar 30, 2008 | Coffee
It’s hard to peer into Starbucks’ notoriously opaque coffee sourcing standards. In a Sunday article in the Seattle Times — Changing the Way Costa Rican Farmers Grow Coffee – and Live — writer Manuel Valdes offers a glimpse, through the...
by deCadmus | Aug 8, 2007 | Coffee
Ever thought about what it *really* takes to get coffee from seed to cup? What life is like in a coffee-growing community? There’s really only one way to learn… make a trip to origin! Coffee Kids — by any measure, a terrific non-profit group that...
by deCadmus | Aug 3, 2007 | Coffee
Congratulations to James Hoffman (whom you may know as Jim Seven (that’s his blog in the list down yonder) on capturing the top honors at the World Barista Championship in Tokyo. His performance was — in a word — artistic. Poised, relaxed — or...
by deCadmus | Nov 5, 2003 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews
Rating: [rating:4/5] Coffee is a fruit, you know… Sipping the cup in front of me, this simple truth is underlined. The cup is lush, heavily fruited with black cherry, and reveals a sweet tobacco finish. Oh… and it’s from Costa Rica. The coffee is...