Barista Magazine
End of the year blogcleaning
2011 is winding down, so we’ve taken a look through our blogroll to see who’s been naughty and nice. Well, not that so much, but rather active or not. Blogs, for the kids out there, […]
Year: 2011
Barista Guild
Remembering Camp Pull-A-Shot
The Barista Guild of America (BGA) has hardly taken a breather since the success that was Camp Pull-A-Shot, the BGA’s retreat that had its second annual event in October in Santa Barbara, California. As a […]
Out of the Box
Ken, Greece and Out of the Box
Barista Magazine Publisher Ken Olson is headed for Athens, Greece, next week for La Marzocco‘s Out of the Box Athens event! He’s excited. He’s less excited for the 3 layovers he’ll have on the way […]
Cafés
PT’s Coffee Brings Beer & Food Into the Mix
Congratulations are in order for Jeff Taylor and Fred Polzin, founders of PT’s Coffee in Kansas. The duo opens Flying Monkey Handcrafted Brews in Topeka today. The location ”at 1500 SW 17th St., just steps […]
Barista Magazine
The Story of The Pete and Barista Magazine
Ken and I have chatted for several years about having Pete Licata on the cover of Barista Magazine. In his work at PT’s Coffee in Kansas, he shined as a trainer and also a barista […]
Barista Gear
12 Months of Champions
It’s not like James and Anette are very busy running one of the best specialty coffee companies in the world or anything… I’m sure they were just hemming and hawing about what to do with […]
Friends
Screening: Colombia, in Portland
Stumptown Coffee Roasters, which is based here in Portland, Ore., is known for the stunning films it’s had created of source trips through Africa, Central and South America. Trevor Fife, who ”along with Autumn Campbell […]
Barista Gear
Competitions
Regional Barista Comp Dates Released!
We’re so excited to hear from Marcus at the Specialty Coffee Association of America that the dates for four of the six 2012 Regional Barista Competitions have been released! They are as follows… JANUARY 26-29 […]
Coffee
Read All About It!
I just downloaded my ipad edition of this week’s New Yorker. Actually I did it as soon as I got my reminder email that the iPad version was available. Why? Well because of this: Kelefa […]