Counter Culture Coffee Cuppers Challenge!
Tomorrow night I’ll be competing in the Counter Culture Coffee Cuppers Challenge – or, as I’m referring to it, “C5″ – at the Chicago CCC Training Center on Lake and Ada at 7pm. From their website: In the next few weeks, Counter Culture will roll out our 2013 Cup Tasters Challenge with events at Training...
New Series: Holiday Coffee
The holiday season is, once again, nigh upon us. This is that special time of year when roasters all over the world gauge the palate of the season and concoct a blend of beans that is designed specifically to match the flavors consumers look for this time of year. Over the next few weeks, A...
New Series: #IndianaBeans
Last week I received a package in the mail from Ideal Brew, an up-and-coming coffee subscription service based in Indianapolis, which contained three sample-sized pouches of beans from Indianapolis. I was ecstatic. Not just because this company thought of me to be one of their coffee review ambassadors (I understand my good friend, Mike Crimmins...
Sprudge.com’s “Kenya Dig It” Recap
This is a guest post by Greg Albright. If you are interested in writing guest articles for the Table, feel free to contact me. Last Thursday (10/26/12), Intelligentsia’s newest Chicago location hosted “coffee news and frothy gossip” outlet Sprudge’s sixth cupping party, “Kenya Dig It”. Cupping is the coffee industry’s practice of evaluating numerous coffees...
Evzdrop-ping about Town
I’ve had a few days now to play around with the new iPhone app, Evzdrop. After being a user of Yelp for so long, Evzdrop was a little tricky to adjust to—it took some time. It’s a vastly different layout and it has a much different functionality, so I really shouldn’t even be making the...
Evzdrop-ping at the Table
Hello, Dear Readers: If you are a follower of mine on Twitter or Facebook, you may have noticed that I have been dropping by some of my favorite local cafes over the past couple of days using a new iPhone app called “Evzdrop.” Let me explain a little bit of what this app is all...
Blue Bottle Coffee’s Tip Cup Runneth Over
A little over a decade ago, James Freeman was roasting his own coffee beans on a baking pan in his Oakland, California kitchen. Nowadays, the former clarinet player and owner of Blue Bottle Coffee outposts in the Bay Area and Brooklyn is one of the leaders of the so-called “Third Wave” of specialty coffee. Freeman and...
New Video from Coffee Circle Berlin
I recently got this email from Coffee Circle Berlin, an online coffee service: Coffee Circle produced its first professional commercial—a high definition movie, which shows all the beauty and aesthetics of coffee preparation in slow motion, in 90 seconds. With Aero Press, Chemex, Hario, Mahlkönig, Walküre, La Marzocco, Reg Barber, Bodum… Goose flesh for every coffee...
New Series: #NashvilleCrawl
A few months ago, for my 27th spirit journey around the sun, Ashley and I took a little road trip from our home in Chicago to Nashville, Tennesse. We saw it all—the Grand Ole Opry, the Parthenon, the Ryman, Yazoo Brewery, the capital building, the Bicentennial Mall… You name it! Since it was my birthday,...
New Series: #GRCoffeeCrawl
Being engaged to a pretty girl from Western Michigan certainly has its perks. Not only am I going to spend the rest of my life with a fantastic woman, I also get to make lots of trips to Western Michigan—one of my favorite Midwestern road trip destinations. I’ve been to Grand Rapids many, many times,...
