Monday, 30 November 2015
Coava Coffee’s Quality Quest Reaching New Portland Roastery
Sunday, 29 November 2015
Kobe Bryant Announces Retirement ... I'm Ready to Let Go
This will be Kobe Bryant's final season in the NBA ... he just made it official by penning a love letter to basketball. Kobe says the 2015-16 season will be his last in the Lakers purple and gold -- and any other uniform. In the letter, posted on…
Saturday, 28 November 2015
Ronda Rousey -- Out of Hiding ... With a Fresh Face
Ronda Rousey is back, and appears fully-healed from the beating she took at the hands of Holly Holm. Rousey went walking with a little girl on Thanksgiving day ... and she didn't look the worse for wear. She went out again Friday in L.A.…
Friday, 27 November 2015
The Beautifully Simple Potential of ‘Green Water’ on the Farm
Thursday, 26 November 2015
Kate Major -- Arrested and Behind Bars After Airline Meltdown
Kate Major will spend Thanksgiving behind bars and has a date tomorrow with a federal judge, who will ask her how she wants to plead in a case involving out-of-control behavior on a plane. TMZ broke the story ... Kate was flying from Ft. Lauderdale…
MIDEAST MESS: Kerry fears Israeli-Palestinian conflict may 'spin out of control'...
MIDEAST MESS: Kerry fears Israeli-Palestinian conflict may 'spin out of control'...
(Second column, 27th story, link)
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Paramour’s Rooftop Slayer Elevates the San Antonio Scene
Top 30 Countdown Begins December 1
On Tuesday, December 1, we will begin posting our list of the Top 30 coffees of 2015. We will announce three coffees per day until December 10, when will reveal the top 3 coffees of the year.
As in past years, we will select and rank these 30 notable coffees and espressos based on quality (represented by overall rating), value (reflected by most affordable price per pound), and other factors that include distinctiveness of style, uniqueness of origin or tree variety, certification, and general rarity.
New in 2015, we have expanded our rankings to include additional categories that will focus attention on fine coffees that may not earn the very high scores of many geishas and elite African origins. Coffees from these less celebrated botanical varieties and origins may not attract ratings of 95 or higher we believe they merit recognition for their excellence.
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Cafe Review: Revelator Coffee in Nashville
Cafe Review: Revelator Coffee in Nashville by Michael
You might might say 2015 has been the year of Revelator. Technically, the Birmingham-based company opened their first café at the end of 2014, but in a span of less than 12 months Revelator Coffee has opened five cafes in as many cities- with a sixth one on the way. We’ve long considered Nashville the South’s coffee capital, so we weren’t surprised that Revelator picked Music City as the site of their fifth café.
When the tech-funded roaster declared their ambition to be the “Blue Bottle of the South”, more than a few eye-brows were raised. Specialty coffee historically has been a DIY, grassroots movement, but venture capital has allowed Revelator to out-scale and out-pace their competitors in a fraction of the time. Time will tell the merits of the business model, but as humble coffee bloggers we are more interested in what their coffee tastes like. As such, when the opportunity came to café-crawl Nashville with some of our closest coffee friends we made sure Revelator was on the itinerary.
A disadvantage of visiting a café with 10 other coffee professionals is that it’s impossible to remain anonymous. Normally when we review a café we try to fly under the radar to get the same experience as our readers would likely get; plus things get weird when people know you’re a blogger. But coffee people like to hook other coffee people up, and the first thing the team at Revelator told us was everything was on the house, and they proceeded to serve each of us a pour-over, espresso, and a handful of cappuccinos. So read the rest of this review knowing that it wouldn’t fly by any sort of journalistic ethical standard.
For a company that is unapologetically trying to be a regional chain, Revelator Coffee has made some very interesting brand decisions. All filter coffees are manually brewed on Chemexes, single-origin espresso is prepared with a Slayer, and JD’s Country Milk, a grass-grazed option from nearby Kentucky, is used for cappuccinos and lattes. Perhaps most controversially, Revelator offers no modifications and a highly limited menu. If you want a sweetened drink cane syrup and chocolate are your two options.
We started out with a Chemex of the Santa Maria, Costa Rica. The coffee was well roasted and brewed, with a nice sweetness and crisp acidity. We were equally pleased with the espresso, which was sweet and dense- the sort of shot that tastes great in milk or plain.
What makes Revelator is not the coffee, but the thoughtful sense of space. Whether it’s the irregularities of the Louisville Stoneware vessels or the luminescence of the matte white everything, the attention to detail is immaculate. One might wonder whether Revelator has read their target audience. The stark white interior feels more Scandinavian than Southern. But we think Revelator knows exactly what they’re doing. The new urban South is well-traveled and epicurean. Although Revelator Coffee won’t appeal to everyone, a growing number of Southerners are looking for craft products in a refined atmosphere. Judging by the full café we saw in Nashville, they’re finding it at Revelator.
Cafe Review: Revelator Coffee in Nashville was first posted by Michael on The Coffee Compass, The Coffee Compass - Your Guide for Craft Coffee
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
One Village Uprising with Beautifully Reimagined Pennsylvania HQ
Gloria Estefan -- Dolphins Part-Owner Calls Out Team ... How Bout a Win?! (VIDEO)
You know things are bad when your celebrity minority owner is begging her team for a VICTORY for her Xmas present. That's what happened when we ran into Gloria Estefan in D.C. Monday. Of course, Gloria owns a piece of the Miami Dolphins ...…
In ‘Sprout,’ Five Months of Coffee Growth in an Incredible Time Lapse
Conversations in Price Risk Management: Shared-Cost Insurance
Monday, 23 November 2015
Hillary Tweets All Sexual Abuse Accusers Deserve To Be Believed...
Hillary Tweets All Sexual Abuse Accusers Deserve To Be Believed...
(Second column, 4th story, link)
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