What’s with the quotation marks though?
Category: miscellany
progress
a little better, if still not where I want to be
back to school
Since things haven’t been going so well in my never-ending quest to produce even a passable example of latte art, I figured it was time to take another class. So I spent a couple hours today with the good folks at Vigilante Coffee in Hyattsville, MD.
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All I know is that when/if I finally get around to throwing together my doomsday go-bag, there’s going to be a second one with my KeepCup, Aeropress, hand grinder, and a ton of quality coffee beans.
more athletes and coffee
Not long ago there was word about the coffee habits of NBA players. It turns out a lot of NHL players like a pre-game boost of java as well.
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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?
reach
Interest today from many corners
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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