There’s a barista at Little Red Fox who absolutely kills it with the milk art every time I stop in. #coffeemakinggoals
the jealousy, it is killing me
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miscellaneous miscellany
Lumping together a few random coffee things I’ve come across recently, whilst waiting for the polar vortex to wipe out North America……
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Sell pics of my home milk art failures to analysts to use in place of ink blots for Rorschach tests
good god man, haven’t you done enough harm already?
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Interest today from many corners
mini-review: Otto’s Market, Germantown, NY
It gives me great joy to write this post, about finding great coffee in my hometown.
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Best version of this song was on the Donnie Darko soundtrack, but today we’re listening to the original 21x in a row.
when is a chain not a chain?
When I was in Milwaukee last summer I visited an outlet of Colectivo Coffee, a local coffee business with 13 cafes in the Milwaukee area, three in Madison, WI, and four (soon to be five) in Chicagoland.
I liked the ambience, the coffee was very good (if not exceptional). Felt like a small, independent cafe, definitely nothing like a shop that’s part of a multi-outlet behemoth.
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Here’s an interesting article on NBA athletes trying to boost their game by drinking coffee before tip-off. I’ve heard before of people trying an espresso shot before working out, but not this kind of pregame pick-me-up.
A lot of it makes sense, and I’m also glad to see any move away from the poison of “energy drinks.” Figures that Portland would be one of the franchises driving the trend, given it’s geographically the most remote franchise, as well as a hotbed for high-quality coffee.
a case study in coffeenomics
I was a bit saddened today, as for the first time I had to mark one of the coffee shops in my guide as closed.
Spiral Press Cafe in Manchester, VT is no more. In fact, it seems to have closed mere days after I visited it this past August. The owner wrote a letter to the editor of the local paper giving his view on why the business went under.
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