In almost 15 years of writing about specialty coffee, I used to think that I would have been better off writing about something else; like expensive cars... or space travel... or 5-star hotels. Because, the way I see it, for the last 10 years or so, there have been no shortage of equipment manufa...
Henry Ford did not invent the automobile. Nor was he a member of the braintrust behind the assembly line. He did, however, change the world by employing an assembly line methodology to produce cars - cars which could be within reach of the average American family. From 1909 til its retiremen...
In 15 years of playing with an endless variety of coffee machines, I viewed, with much suspicion the appearance of the POD machine. Here is the deal. Having grown up with god awful coffee - coffee whose taste I largely attributed to its freshness and my ability to prepare it in an ideal enviro...
2009 - The Atomic Coffee maker has made its way to the front pages of prominent magazines, newspapers, webzines and blogs. Again! Of hundreds and hundreds of e-mail and forum discussions on the coffeecrew website, the Atomic debates are amongst the most lively and the most contentious. A...
Coffee has never been within the realm of my curiosity till only recently. I have always had a Cuppa Joe here and there without realizing the potential of the flavors that could be extracted from what...
I can't say this event was the first time I had coffee, but it is one that I can still remember vividly. I was about 10 years old and it was a weekday morning. For some reason or another my Dad...
I am 46 years old and I have disliked coffee for as long as I can remember. I grew up in a home where my parents and both my siblings were coffee addicts. There was always a pot brewing, a discarded...
Soccer coach and father of two, Sean Sweet loves the blues, jazz, funk, literature, red wine, single malt scotch, good coffee, and the Vancouver Canucks. All good things. Born in Northern Ontario, Sean...
In almost 15 years of writing about specialty coffee, I used to think that I would have been better off writing about something else; like expensive cars... or space travel... or 5-star hotels. Because,...
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There are 3 big things that make managing a coffee themed website great: One of them is the trust the readers place in me and my sometimes scattered opinions. And the 2nd thing is the trust that manufacturers and vendors place in the CoffeeCrew website to evaluate great pieces of equipment and review them fairly. The 3rd thing is watching product in development - seeing the actual evolution of a design and following it through its childhood to maturity. The Baratza Vario is an awesome example of this. I have been acquainted with Kyra and Kyle of Baratza Coffee for a few years now - and actually being permitted to watch the evolution of a grinder - from paper to production... is an honor and a truly humbling experience. In an up and coming review of the Baratza Vario grinder, once again we will pull out all the stops. Stay tuned.