miscellany | Coffee, It's a Helluva Drug

what a bargain!

My Father’s Day gift this year (I was asked what I wanted) was an on-line home espresso class, offered by Breville in conjunction with Onyx Coffee Lab. My session was yesterday.

I’ve taken classes before at Counter Culture and Vigilante, but it had been a while and this offer was too good to be true.

coffee world faces its own reckoning

As the US, and now the world, is forced to face up to the injustices and structural racism which confront black people on a daily basis, it’s no surprise that the coffee industry is dealing with shocks of its own. The past week in particular has caught up key players in the specialty coffee world, as well as the gargantuan icon of the global coffee industry. Let’s weed through a few examples.

settling in

Hey kids. Sorry ol’ Matty hasn’t been very active lately, but a combination of being busy with work, not being able to get out for coffee, and getting ready to move has kept me pretty busy lately.

We got through the move this week, and other than the garage door opener track ripping apart a poorly installed ethernet cable and a heavy thunderstorm flooding the basement, it’s all gone smoothly. Surrounded by boxes but managed to set up the coffee infrastructure and make my first cup in the new house. Funny how minor changes in the setup, like a different counter height, feel awkward at first. I do think this will soon feel like a much better layout.