The Argonaut has a front-page article on the the popularity of caffinated drinks on campus (including coffee): Among the five different locations on campus where coffee-based beverages are sold, CDS sold 113,181 drinks. “Coffee is more of a culture here. I don’t think you can go on a college campus these days and not see […]
Filed under: UI Campus Shops on February 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
This is the second installment of my interview with Brendan from Bucer’s Coffeehouse Pub. He talks about coffee varieties and flavors and also how he got started roasting. Unfortunately, I don’t have a picture of their new roaster from the shop. It was built in Turkey. Brendan informed me that even though the new roaster […]
Filed under: Bucer's Coffeehouse Pub, Lore, Roasting on February 27th, 2008 | No Comments »
This is the first part of my interview with Brendan O’Donnell, the coffee roaster and new manager for Bucer’s Coffeehouse Pub. We sat down and talked about quite a few things. I’ll be postings parts of the interview over the next couple weeks arranged by topic. Today, it’s about the state of coffee shops at […]
Filed under: Bucer's Coffeehouse Pub, Interviews on February 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
McDonalds now has espresso! You can pick some up at the 3rd street location in Moscow. How does it taste? The short answer is: Not great, but I’ve had worse. On the sleeve of the new cups is a tale of how their delightful drinks came to be. In case you can’t read the picture […]
Filed under: McDonalds on February 1st, 2008 | No Comments »