Events

Conferences for Coffee Brainiacs

There are so many reasons we all love the specialty-coffee industry, and the many opportunities to mingle with our intelligent, funny, witty, thoughtful peers is high among them. There are two international conferences coming up […]

Coffee Gear and Equipment

Time Traveling with Unic

When the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE) announced that its annual conference for 2013 would be held in Nice, France, the staff from Unic espresso machines jumped for joy. Why? Because unlike its competition […]

Coffee Gear and Equipment

The Intelligent Dosing Ring by Costas Pliatsikas

Swedish cafe and roastery owner, and former barista champion Costas Pliatsikas has been even busier than usual this past year: besides operating his successful company, Costas Roastery, he has been working night and day on […]

Cupping

Rocky Mountain Coffee-High

My pal Josh Taves of Dogwood Coffee just wrote to tell me about a really cool event that’s set for July 20 in Thornton, Colorado: It’s All About Coffee Lecture & Forum! Hosted by the […]

Barista Gear

Coffee Paddles By Emily

I love how in the coffee industry, you meet creative people through creative people, like we’re all connected somehow, you just have to unearth the ties that bind us. Daniel Thompson of Buttondown Photography shot […]