Pom Coffee
Whoa! Anyone know where to get one of these?
Filed under: Uncategorized on May 5th, 2009 | No Comments »
The most espresso for your buck
I realized recently that Sister’s Brew doesn’t have drip coffee. So no refills on your drink. But wait, they have something even better: One free “refill” on your Americano if you get it to stay.
So pay $1.75 for an americano. Sit down, drink it. Then take it back to the counter for two more shots free. Excellent deal!
(Getting your drink in a paper cup will negate this offer.)
Filed under: Deals, Sister's Brew on March 15th, 2009 | No Comments »
Open early, open late
For those of you looking for coffee early in the morning, you can now hit One World Cafe at 6:30 AM. For years, none of the mainstreet shops have been open before 7:00, so this is a welcome schedule change.
Also, during the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, Bucer’s often picks a couple of nights to stay open really late with extra music. That’s Thursday and Friday of this week. Come in until 1:00 AM. Don’t have one of those special passes for mingling with the artists after the dome concert gets over? This is a good alternative.
Filed under: Bucer's Coffeehouse Pub, Music, One World Cafe on February 25th, 2009 | No Comments »
Blueberries
For much of autumn and into winter, Bucer’s has been serving up Sumatran coffee in their drip carrafe. I can’t say that has been very exciting. I usually pass. Recently though, they’ve aquired some good Ethiopian beans with a very strong blue berry flavour. Really! You don’t have to be a coffee snob to notice it right up front, especially if it’s a fresh pot. So if you see the Ethiopian placard out over the carrafe, you may want to give it a shot. It’s VERY different than what is usually in there.
Filed under: Bucer's Coffeehouse Pub on February 10th, 2009 | No Comments »
A very bad sign
Sister’s Brew interview coming soon
Today I interviewed Tim Rich, co-owner of Sister’s Brew. I’ll have the interesting parts up here in the next few days.
Filed under: Announcements on December 18th, 2008 | No Comments »
A coffee pilgrimage
I had a business trip last week, which is about the only time I get to travel very far abroad. It was for software training in San Francisco, with a long layover in Seattle. I had often heard and read about some unique coffee these cities offered and decided to take my time between work visit the shrines and pay homage to the espresso saints that have passed on to the great golden carafe in the sky. None of my pictures where very good, so these are all from Flickr.
My first visit was to the Zoka coffee shop next to Greenlake in the north of Seattle. Zoka is a roaster with three shops in the Seattle area. Cafe Silos in Moscow uses their coffee and they are considered to have a really nice product. Also, I had been told their Greenlake shop had a very similar atmosphere to Bucer’s, with a lot of dark wood. It was true! The place was packed out too, but eerily quiet. Why? About 30+ laptop screens glowing. I joined in and made that 31. Read more »
Filed under: Out of town on December 10th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Elitism in coffee
Drop that Starbuck’s milkshake you uncultured swine! (Just kidding)
On true gourmet coffee vs. everything else:
Great coffees, he [Peter Giuliano] says, should be brewed one at a time. “It isn’t consistent with the specialty coffee aesthetic to pre-brew and store coffee in the kind of thermoses you see in gas stations, hotel lobbies, or bullshit coffee shops where they sell French Vanilla.”
Update: Pardon the prophanity in the quote above. I merely wished to demonstrate that there exists a high coffee culture that derides what most of the population has come to know and love. This is the same thing as a fan of French cuisine talking trash about McDonald’s. Wa hoo. They both have their respective merit. Whatever floats your boat!
Filed under: Lore on October 12th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Welcome Back
It’s the busiest week of the year. The return of thousands of students to University of Idaho and Washington State University. Welcome back everyone who may have had a dearth of good espresso over the summer. Start the days out right.
Filed under: Announcements on August 26th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Homemade Coffee Ice Cream
One of the few cooking blogs I follow is cafefernando.com, written by a young Turkish food enthusiast. He only writes a couple times a month, but it’s always interesting and includes beautiful photos. A few weeks ago, he posted a recipe for making “Vietnamese” coffee ice cream at home using sweetened condensed milk. I decided to give it a go:
Ingredients
- 1 can (400 g) sweetened condensed milk
- 1 + 1/2 cup water (for brewing the coffee)
- 1/2 cup dark roast coffee
- 1 tbsp dark roast ground coffee
- 1/3 cup whole milk
Filed under: Food, Home Brew on August 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »