Round Trip Coffee Florida to Texas... Recently, Team Barrett did a road trip. We drank coffee on the way. As a precaution, we even brought along a Keurig, half and half on ice, ceramic mugs and a bucket of Beaniac Organic French Roast pods. This made hotel morning launches more synchronous with the flow of our journey. We are writing a series of posts about coffee shops we visited on the … [Read more...]
Honeymoon Espresso in North Carolina
Honeymoon Espresso in North Carolina We stayed at a great little Airbnb outside of Asheville the second night. We woke up hungry. First things first - find the coffee. We had institutional coffee with breakfast. You know the kind. It's made using stale pre-portioned packages and the glass coffee pot sits unattended on the warmer for 30 minutes before they serve you. That was a … [Read more...]
Ernesto Illy – a Really Good Coffee Pioneer
Dr. Ernesto Illy - a Really Good Coffee Pioneer In the early nineties, they started Coffee Fest in Seattle and that's where I first saw Ernesto Illy. What a class act. This man was such an elegant speaker, a real intellectual, a scientist and what seemed to me to be the "high priest" of espresso. He commanded respect but did not abuse it - he was gentle and kind in his interaction with … [Read more...]
The Gathering Cafe Ocala Florida
The Gathering Cafe Ocala... Recently we had a nice coffee surprise: The Gathering Cafe Ocala. Over the course of the last year, we haven't had many locally. 2020 hammered a lot of little coffee businesses. But not The Gathering Cafe. Like the Phoenix rising from the ashes, Sarah launched her thriving little coffee oasis smack-dab in the middle of the nationwide economic mess. Here is their … [Read more...]
Peets Coffee Pioneered Really Good Coffee
Peets Coffee Started The Whole Coffee Experience On The West Coast Flashback: Peets Coffee in Berkeley, California at the original roasteria on the corner of Walnut and Vine - three blocks away from the pediatrician who tended me as a child. It is 1967, I can remember standing in line with 20-50 other people everyday waiting for my cup of java. Most of us had our favorite ceramic mugs in our … [Read more...]