A Portable, Recyclable French Press This week I came across a Chris Pirillo video on a new product being made by XPress, called the XPress smartcup. The smartcup is a portable, recyclable french press, completely made of plastic. It works like a regular 3-cup french press would – add the ground coffee to the cup, [...]

Coffee Art Paintings Using Coffee for Ink Last week, our blog post featured Cheeming Boey, an artist who draws amazing artwork on foam cups with a sharpie. We came across an article this week about Dirceu Veiga, a Brazillian designer who creates art using coffee for ink. Click here to see Dirceu’s Web page featuring his [...]

Amazing Coffee Cup Art I recently came across a collection of amazing coffee cup art. Cheeming Boey draws on foam coffee cups with a sharpie. I thought this was just too good to not share. Check out the collection of photos on Flickr. Click here to view the images. Here’s the background story on Boey.

Here are a few coffee articles I found interesting in the news and tweeted to my followers on Twitter this past week: Downtown coffee shop pulls plug on power-hungry patrons A big debate is brewing between coffee shop owners; should they continue offering free Internet access to patrons, knowing a few will stay for hours, [...]

Here are a few coffee articles I found interesting in the news and tweeted to my followers on Twitter this past week: Coffee 101: What is latte art? A short explanation of what latte art is, including a video of a barista making lattes of zoo animals (pretty neat!). You likely won’t find baristas making [...]

Here are a few coffee articles I found interesting in the news and tweeted to my followers on Twitter this past week: Freshness valve keeps coffee beans at their peak If you want fresh roasted coffee to stay fresh and great tasting, it’s so important to properly store beans to maximize flavor. Always store coffee [...]

Nothing’s better than brewing your own coffee at home with fresh roasted coffee beans… but sometimes you want to get out of the house, or you’re on the road, or maybe you’re meeting up with a friend and need to find a good, quality coffee house to visit. Finding one can be difficult, though. Some [...]

I’m an avid coffee enthusiast… which explains why I run a coffee roasting start-up company. Not only do I enjoy running the business and hearing the feedback from people who experience truly fresh roasted coffee for the first time, I also like visiting coffee shops and enjoying new coffees myself. One of the most frequent [...]