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...
I have a friend who’s a recording engineer. I once asked him what he felt was the most important thing he’d learned in order to make his recordings sound so good. He told me the greatest thing he’s learned is how to listen. I’m going to say the...
If there’s one writer who both predicted and created the coffee resurgence we currently enjoy, it’s Kenneth Davids. His classic book, Coffee, A Guide to Buying, Brewing and Enjoying is still the definitive coffee text. I’m proud of my own work, but I’d be delusional...
It’s no secret that CoffeeCon’s classes are one of its strengths. As fun as tasting coffee from 30 exhibitors is, the real meat of our event is in the classes and hands-on labs we offer. Here’s my quick cheat sheet on how to work through all the choices. While I can’t...
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...
