Rare & Exotic Coffees |
The Roasterie has recently started a new program, The Roasterie Reserve ’08; offering, In very small quantities rare and exotic coffees. The process to find these rare and sometimes bizzare coff...
Posted by BOOTH 2137 on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:04:00 PST |
The Newburgh Crown - Exclusive 4 |
The next masterpiece in The Exclusives lineup is the Newburgh Crown. This is a perfect complement to the freezing weather, with it's combination of steamy chocolate, juicy raspberry tones and deep spi...
Posted by BOOTH 2137 on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:12:00 PST |
Brazil: Taste of Harvest by Dave Hermann |
December 6, 2007Snowing heavily in downtown Kansas City on my way to the airport, but nothing can stop me now. It seems as though the city doesn't want me to leave. The salt trucks slow 35 to a craw...
Posted by BOOTH 2137 on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:25:00 PST |
Roasters Guild 07 |
If you had been fortunate enough to be up in Fargo North Dakota last Thursday afternoon you would have seen Normy and I pass by on our way to the 2007 Roaster's Guild Retreat. Held at the beautiful S...
Posted by BOOTH 2137 on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:33:00 PST |
Cup of Excellence - Norm in Costa Rica |
Costa Rica CoE/2007Sunday May 13th The Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE) goal is to foster the appreciation of exemplary coffee and provide those who grow it a way to be recognized. This is accompl...
Posted by BOOTH 2137 on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:16:00 PST |
A Little Cupping History by Norm Killmon |
by Norman Killmon Cupping coffee can be traced the late 1890's in San Francisco when two brothers named Reuben and Austin Hills started a coffee company under the name Hills Brothers. To insure that t...
Posted by BOOTH 2137 on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:12:00 PST |
Norm in Brazil |
SUNDAY December 3rd, 2006The flight to Houston leaves on time, arrival is a very hard landing then it took us 22 minutes to get to the gate, but whose counting. A two-hour wait in Houston but then the...
Posted by BOOTH 2137 on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:04:00 PST |
Does Size Matter? by Dave Hermann |
There is a long going debate in the specialty coffee industry, and it's a question that is on the mind of coffee geek's nation wide; does size matter? Bean size that is, does the size of your roaster'...
Posted by BOOTH 2137 on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:31:00 PST |
The History of Espresso |
Espresso is a concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing very hot water under high pressure through coffee that has been ground to an extremely fine consistency. Espresso is distinguished from dr...
Posted by BOOTH 2137 on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:19:00 PST |
About Grinding Coffee by Norm |
The type of grind for the type coffeemaker is very important: Espresso..a very fine grind needed to extract out the maximum amount of flavor in a very short time period (25 seconds). Auto Drip..... Th...
Posted by BOOTH 2137 on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:43:00 PST |
