I am excited to announce Mack Sennett Studios for CoffeeCon Los Angeles 2014. We were visiting many different venues in the area, but Sennett Studios won against them all. Here’s a bit more about why it’s such a great choice for us: CoffeeCon is a consumer coffee...
As I write this we are both in our hotel room. Pat is tweeting. I have been sitting here, wondering. It is a little terrifying. This is our first out of town CoffeeCon. The Bay Area has all the right ingredients for success: a robust economy, a big coffee-drinking...
I realize I’ve lived a cherished life. I have met many of the great minds of coffee. I met Alfred Peet, who’d read my articles and thought I was a roaster. He shared his roast philosophy one evening with me and we talked last into the night. Erna Knutsen, who coined...
My vision for CoffeeCon consumer coffee festival is always to bring the original. This does not mean we don’t want to try new things; it only means we want to experience something in its original and authentic form as well. With all due respect to Alfred Peet and...
If you read my pre-CoffeeCon concerns, you’ll be happy to know most of my fears were unfounded. We had a good to great turnout, between 700-1000 happy coffee enthusiasts, with a healthy mix of those waiting to be baptized with great cups. You see it in their eyes when...
One the things I’m most proud of is CoffeeCon’s eclectic group of presenters. The other day a first-week-on-the-job coffee company marketing VP asked me how I pick my presenters (after asking me why I of all people created CoffeeCon). The truth is I recruit them upon...
