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NYC Roasters Speak: The King of Queens
Most NYC roasters are rooted in Brooklyn (all the ones interviewed so far in the NYC Roasters Speak series are). From the Williamsburgers to the Aussies to the New Guard, […]
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NYC Baristas Speak: 3 Questions with Park Brannen of Counter Culture
3 (plus a bonus) Questions with Park Brannen, Northeast Regional Barista Champion and wholesale support rep with Counter Culture’s NYC crew. Last Friday I attended the 10am public cupping at […]
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How to Build a Book
Kind of like coffee, books are all around us and we probably don’t know too much about what goes into making them exist. Printing presses have come a long way […]
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Gorilla Coffee: K!ng Kong Cup
Gorilla Coffee has its roots in Brooklyn and is continuing to evolve along with the city’s cutting edge of coffee trends. Gorilla (its two Park Slope shops as a unit) […]
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The Aliveness of a Fleeting Century
I grew up in New Hampshire, and about the age (3rd grade) that I realized what New Hampshire was, and that there were places that were not New Hampshire, I […]
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Coffee Mob
Too much time has lapsed in which I’ve been a regular at Brooklyn’s Coffee Mob and have not written a dedicated post about how awesome they are. The shop is […]
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Summer 2014 Coffee Crawl
As soon I knew that I’d be living in Park Slope for two months this summer, I told myself that I’d have to do a Brooklyn-centric NYC coffee crawl. I […]
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New York Coffee Festival
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...
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Roasting Revival in the City that Never Sleeps
For the February issue of Tea & Coffee Trade Journal I wrote an article by that title, "Roasting Revival in the City that Never Sleeps." The story gives a brief overview of how New York City's...
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NYC Roasters Speak: The Williamsburgers
Williamsburg has been the definition of hipster Brooklyn cool for close to a decade now, but it isn’t just a neighborhood of plaid and PBR. People get serious work done in Williamsburg too. Some of the...
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NYC Roasters Speak: The New Guard
Today’s newest guard of NYC coffee roasters is springing up—like battle-ready Athena from the head of Zeus—out of the expertise of yesterday’s new guard. If yesterday’s new guard of convention-defying...
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Southdown: A Place You Want to Be
Southdown: A Place You Want to Be 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...
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