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Common Coffee Core
When an organization or institution crosses an uncrossable line, it is important to let out a howl. The SCA (Specialty Coffee Association) issued a Deferred Candidacy policy regarding participation in global coffee competitions, stating that if competitors (eligible for global competition through winning regional and national competitions) are unable to attend world competition finals for any one…
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Decathlete Coffee
Today I watched thousands of runners power through the NYC Marathon, and few weeks ago I rode 30 miles around Manhattan for Bike MS. Humans can many incredible things. We can complete decathlons, or we can stay home and spilt hairs. Coffee has the opportunity to be a hair splitter or a decathlete. To understand precision coffee brewing (the hair splitter) think first of your Mr. Coffee or other…
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Posing vs. Dancing
Posing for coffee. There is much to love about the trend toward differentiated coffee bought and sold according to uniqueness of flavor profile and narrative, about all that falls into the big specialty coffee basket. But, as the previous post also explored, there is also much to consider carefully, much that becomes more concerning the longer it pervades coffee’s special niche and the louder it…
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Things Craft Coffee Can Teach Us About Forever Young America
Things Craft Coffee Can Teach Us About Forever Young America
High and mighty craft coffee perspective. I recently watched the Netflix docu series Chef’s Table for the first time, and suddenly everything about craft coffee trends and tendencies made sense. The main things that annoy me about smallscale artisan craft coffee and that have never really made any sense are explained not by the series per se, but by how the series is shot, edited, narrated, and…
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Realigning All the Empathy
Realigning All the Empathy
Aponte, Nariño, Colombia These days, everyone seems to be talking about empathy–how to feel more of it, what to do with it, and why it will make America united again. While empathetic declarations come from a well-intentioned place, there is a slight flaw in our current empathetic effusiveness; the overuse and often misuse of the word is diluting what it means. Empathy is what you feel when you…
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About that $18 Cup of Coffee
About that $18 Cup of Coffee
Day before opening at the Extraction Lab About that $18 cup of coffee in Brooklyn that went viral. What’s up with it? Why does it cost $18 and why did everyone have something to say about it? Let’s break this down. 0. This coffee is not actually available yet. When it is, it will cost $18/cup. Two weeks ago, Alpha Dominche, a manufacturer of high tech coffee and tea brewing equipment, opened a…
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When America Speaks
Something incredible happened yesterday. Without any centralized organization, millions of people around the world took to the streets to peacefully and nonviolently voice their concern for the disparaging rhetoric issuing from the mouth of the man holding America’s highest office and to advocate for basic decency and informed policy making that addresses the needs of constituents and is based…
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The Importance of Inefficiency and the Danger of Detail
The Importance of Inefficiency and the Danger of Detail
Lucas Roasting in Alton, NH Specialty coffee is overwhelmingly inefficient. This inefficiency might be the one unilateral criterion that makes certain coffee special and also the one unilateral virtue—or opportunity for positive impact—that circumscribes specialty coffee as a category. Between 275-320 bags (total varies depending on country of export and their standard bag weight) of coffee are…
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Southdown: A Place You Want to Be
Southdown: A Place You Want to Be
Southdown: A Place You Want to Be Jen and Cannon serving up smiles at Southdown One of the unexpected benefits of working for an importer is that I’m able to explore coffee shops beyond my normal MTA-bound radius and get to know roasters who are not maybe not the flashiest social media magnates but are busy making great coffee for the people of their towns. Southdown Coffee is a café and…
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Dispassionate Coffee
For the love of coffee. Connecting with people from all over the world. People have a lot to say about their passions for coffee, myself included. Because coffee is indeed an addictive caffeinated beverage and there is plenty of physiological and neuroscientific study to show why our brains and bodies love it, it makes sense that we feel the need to gush about our adoration for a beverage. Some…
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Fat Neighbors
Spotted: coffee from good neighbors Some people have more money, resources, good looks, connections, and formative educational training than others. That’s life. In the case of coffee, life’s inherent unfairness doesn’t have to be a bad thing and it doesn’t take a mammoth international organization like Fairtrade to help restore some balance to life’s inherently imbalanced scales; it just takes a…
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Coffee in 2016
It’s a new year and there is everything to look forward to in life in general and especially in world of coffee. In the last quarter of 2015 I took on a brand new coffee role, which is part of the reason why this blog has been pretty inactive. I currently have the pleasure of working (part time—I’m still wearing a few other non-coffee hats) as a Sales Rep and Educational Liaison for Ally Coffee,…
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New York Coffee Festival
New York Coffee Festival
Be there. It’s happening. The New York Coffee Festival opens tomorrow, and not only will coffeepeople from New York be representing hard, coffee folks from around the globe will be present to celebrate the thing we all love to love: coffee. Coffee Festival has rocked London and Amsterdam, and it is set to bring its A game to the mean streets of NYC. It seems like only yesterday the festival…
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Celebrate the Good
Coffee, like everything else, is not perfect. Coffee regularly gets negative press of being exploitive on one end and elitist on the other. (For some thoughts on the complexities of making trade fair, see my second guest post for Angels’ Cup.) It’s nice to take a moment to recognize that coffee is also very inclusive and provides more than enough space for people to do great things for…
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Celebrity Farmers
Colombian coffee, brought to you by middlemen. Way back in the post Division of Decision I suggested that we don’t always know what me mean by the words that we use. When we say “farmer” who are we actually talking about? The romantic, idyllic image of a lone man toiling in harmony with the land that we associate with the word is essentially a fantasy, and the fantasy can’t substituted by a…
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2015: Digital Coffee Summer
When Coffee Speaks has gone digital! All 436 pages now fit in the palm of your hand. #socool The sun is out and the summer is sweaty; it’s the season of cold brew and there’s lots that has been steeping here at When Coffee Speaks. First, When Coffee Speaks: Stories from and of Latin American Coffeepeople is now an ebook! Find it on amazon.com (where it’s also now available in hard copy) or on…
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