February 2011
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CraftCoffee Tasting Boxes
We’re excited to announce our first CraftCoffee Tasting Box!
Over the past few months, we’ve tasted and evaluated dozens of coffees for the CraftCoffee website. As coffee lovers, this process has been a truly rewarding experience. The more you taste, the more you appreciate the incredible richness, flavor and diversity of super premium coffees.
Of course, we know that sampling...
November 2010
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New Coffees on the Way!
One of our favorite experiences at CraftCoffee is sitting down with our barista friends to taste new coffees for the site. Last week we had a chance to try 8 new coffees from an excellent roaster who you’ll see available on the site in the coming weeks.
We get scientific with this stuff so that you don’t have to! We carefully weigh each sample, monitor water temperature, and take...
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Brooklyn Barista
Megan @ El Beit Cafe, Williamsburg
Eds Note: Every Thursday that we have a cool barista photo, we’re going to post one.
Have a photo of a barista that you want us to post? Email it to us: barista@craftcoffee.com.
October 2010
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Pop Coffee: Gossip Girl
By Eric Grimm
I know, I know. We’re talking about an intensely female-appealing show broadcast on the forgotten network, the CW. Bear with me. Gossip Girl, in addition to featuring the occasional spurt of clever dialogue, is dead serious about its coffee. In fact, for the time being it’s modern pop culture’s most prominent big brother figure when it comes to great coffee, at...
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Behind the Scenes: We Taste Everything
Why do we love working on CraftCoffee? We get to hang out with lots of passionate people and taste incredible coffees. In fact, we do tastings with every coffee that we consider for the site. That’s just one of the ways we ensure you’ll find only amazing coffee on CraftCoffee.com!
We’re lucky to be working with some great coffee professionals, like Sam Penix from Everyman...
September 2010
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Pop Coffee
By Eric Grimm
Growing up in the South with little guidance from siblings who were at least seven years older than me, I was forced to grasp for positive role models to let me in on the secrets of how to function in the world. Twenty-two years of television, movies, books, and music have taught me invaluable lessons about who to trust when making important decisions.
I trust Roger Ebert to tell...
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Photo Shoot: Behind the Scenes
Last week, we were lucky enough to team up with Gary Noel for one of our first photo shoots! Gary is a real artist with the camera, and let me tell you, these beans got the celebrity treatment.
The launch is right around the corner!
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August 2010
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Getting Started
Welcome to the Craft Coffee Blog! CraftCoffee.com will launch soon, but while we’re putting the finishing touches on things, we thought we’d start hanging out here on the blog.
Stay tuned to meet our contributors, learn more about our site, and find out everything you ever wanted to know about amazing artisan coffees.
We’re excited!
Talk soon,
Craft Coffee Team
