David Castillo and Becca Woodard, of Joe Coffee and George Howell Coffee respectively, will host a Q and A following their wins at the SCA Expo in Brooklyn on May 19-20. I’ve long realized the best way to learn to brew better coffee is hanging out with someone better...
There is a growing number of Coffee festivals in New York. You’ve got limited time, so which one are you going to spend your time and money going to see? I try to get to them all and get friends’ play-by-plays of all of them. My goal is to promote my show of course,...
I’ve known Kyle Ramage since meeting him at a Mahlkönig exhibit at one of the trade shows. He’s everything you want an expert to be: Extremely knowledgeable while still down-to-earth and able to put his brilliance into plain language. I originally asked him to come to...
If someone had told me how difficult putting on three back-to-back CoffeeCon events would be, I’m not sure I’d have done it. However, the benefit has been clear. We really are starting to have it down. I’m used to moving from one city to another. I’m used to the...
How many CoffeeCon events can we produce per year? Answer: Given our resources, that is two people, Pat and me, devoting ourselves to the cause pretty much full time, we’ve found can do three per year. Since we’ve so far completed two this year, it leaves one...