Coffee Brewing Secrets: Winning Baristas Tell All at CoffeeCon NY
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...
NY’s Best Coffee Event: A Biased Guide
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,...
Vive L’Espresso Martini
Grey Goose invites you to discover the world of coffee cocktails, exploring the relationship that the two beverages have had throughout the decades, while teaching you the skills to create an extraordinary version of a definitive modern classic cocktail - L'Espresso...
Free Gifts From Imbibe Magazine – CoffeeCon 2018 Media Sponsor
CoffeeCon is proud to have Imbibe Magazine, the ultimate guide to liquid culture, as one of its 2018 media sponsors. Not only will you receive a free print issue* of Imbibe at CoffeeConLA, but you can immediately download a copy of their Ultimate Home Bar Guide, which...
Newly Crowned Barista Champ at CoffeeCon NY
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...
CoffeeCon NY 2017 Comes to Chelsea!
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...
CoffeeCon Chicago. When?
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 left to...
My Personal Guide to CoffeeCon NY
CoffeeCon comes to Brooklyn for one-day only this coming Saturday, June 4. If you’ve longed for a coffee festival on par with the best wine, beer or food events CoffeeCon is for you. As you know, coffee is truly a culinary food item which means a world of recipes and...
Author Steven Rea Brings Hollywood Café Book and Clips to CoffeeCon NY
You know you’re really over the top infatuated with coffee when you find yourself squinting to see the coffee maker in a film. When Steven Rea contacted me to offer to bring his new book, Hollywood Café to CoffeeCon, I was really excited both to realize there was such...
Chemex Pop-Up Museum at CoffeeCon NY
CoffeeCon will make history with the first-ever Chemex Pop-up Museum on Saturday June 4, at Industry City in Brooklyn. It happens to be the Chemex coffeemaker’s 75th anniversary. The Chemex happens to be the 3rd Wave Coffee Movement’s darling coffee maker and it's a...