Trying to rediscover myself.
I’m so very excited to be heading to The Northwest Coffee Festival today. This has become one of my favorite events to work. The festival is a consumer based coffee and food event. A ton of great roasteries and cafes from the area get together for two days to hold talks on the current state of the industry to customer service and serve awesome coffee.
I had the great pleasure to work at TEDx Peachtree this Friday in Atlanta. Here’s a little time-lapse thingy I made. I’ll be posting a more detailed blog later this week.
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Today is the day we get to make coffee for the TEDx Peachtree masses. We’ve been brewing our butts off since eight this morning! It’s been so much fun working with people from Oklahoma, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri and Washington. I’ve had the pleasure of brewing Batdorf & Bronson’s Nicaragua Finca San Jose JavaNica with a siphon. Super chocolaty and lots of caramel. The attendees have been loving the coffee and they are asking a lot of great questions. Well I need to get back and prep for the next wave.
I’m so stoked to be back in the South after many years! When i was a child I spent ten years in Tennessee and I was actually born in Georgia. My good friend Jason Dominy invited me to be a part of a TEDx event so I accepted ..DUH! I’ll fill you in with all the details later. Now I must sleep. iloveyou
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The good ol’ mason jar has been working perfectly for storing old beans. The one thing I somehow managed to overlook is the lid to the mason jar. I was so stoked about the paint job and forgot about the gas the beans give off. The other day I went to unscrew the lid and it popped off and made a loud noise. DUH!!! There was a bunch of gas built up behind the lid because it had no where else to go. My friend Marcus Young recommended cutting out the one way valve from a bag of coffee!!!!! IT WORKED! Have fun!
The Finalist for the SERBC Brewers Cup
Tune in to http://www.usbaristachampionship.org/ for the live stream of the competition.
Jonathan Bonchak/C.C.C.
Bryan Duggan/C.C.C.
Matthew Ludwikowski/OctaneCoffee
Stevie Brown/Octane Coffee
Dave Delchamps/Octane Coffee
Jason Dominy/Batdorf & Bronson
YO! The first Thursday Night Throwdown on the west coast will take place the 28th of this month! It is being held at the Espresso Parts lab in Olympia WA. The doors open at 6pm, sign-up is at 6:30 with the first pour starting at 7pm sharp. The event will benefit the Stonewall Youth as it is part of Sprudge’s #YesEqual movement. Bring all your friends and let’s do rad coffee stuff.
This Sunday I will be hosting an open lab at Espresso Parts from 10-3. The lab will be strictly slow brew, no espresso. In the near future I will hold an espresso lab session but for now we will focus on manual brewing. Batdorf & Bronson has donated three pounds of Guatemala Antigua for us to play with. Huge thanks to them for helping out and being an active member of the coffee community! Feel free to bring any coffee you have that you might want me to help you brew better. I look forward to seeing you there!
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This post is for any PNW Baristas that would like to continue their coffee education. I am planning to hold certifications here in Olympia before Camp Pull-A-Shot. If you are interested please contact me at panda@espressoparts.com. Let’s get together and learn!
http://www.baristaguildofamerica.net/CERTIFICATION%20PROGRAM/BGA%20Level%201%20Cert.pdf
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Whoa I really can’t believe there are so many readers! Thanks to everyone who reads the blog you give me a good push to keep current things up here.
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