Counter Culture Coffee // Farmhouse Organic (CENFROCAFE Peru)
Coffee – like all food, wine, and TV sitcoms – is best enjoyed when it is at its freshest and in season. Counter Culture Coffee is well-aware of that. To illustrate coffee’s shifting seasonal availability and to make the freshest coffees available to the general public, Counter Culture instituted the Farmhouse program. Here’s how it...
Bow Truss Coffee Roasters // Canopy Blend
A few months ago, Rogers Park’s coffee scene very suddenly got a whole lot better and a whole lot more legit with the addition of Sol Cafe (which I’ll be reviewing soon), just to the east of the Howard Street Red Line stop. Since then, Rogers Park improved even more with the addition of Ellipsis...
Madcap Coffee Company // Luis Reinoso Colombia
Not so long ago, I drove up to GR to have a coffee meeting with the founder and CEO of Mighty in the Midwest and my new best friend forever, Cliff. We had a lot of really great conversations about everything ranging from the cultural impact of social media, web and mobile app design ideas,...
Madcap Coffee Company // Kiriyama Burundi
If there’s one thing I’ve learned while being near, around, and in the specialty coffee industry over the past few years, it’s that relationships often play the most vital role in any business’s success. Not only is this true of the relationships between a shop and its clientele, or a roastery and its wholesale accounts,...
Oil Slick Coffee Company // Ethiopia Beloya
I’m a very fortunate person. Running a coffee review website has given me the opportunity to try some of the best coffees this country has to offer—shipped directly from the roaster to my doorstep on a regular basis, usually free of charge. While some roasters might do it to take advantage of a great free...
Oil Slick Coffee Company // El Salvador Orange Bourbon
I’m a very fortunate person. Running a coffee review website has given me the opportunity to try some of the best coffees this country has to offer—shipped directly from the roaster to my doorstep on a regular basis, usually free of charge. While some roasters might do it to take advantage of a great free...
Ceremony Coffee Roasters // Rwanda Gitesi
After kicking around sunny southern California for the past few days, we’re packing our bags and jetting off to the Eastern seaboard, to the home of Ceremony Coffee Roasters—Annapolis. Ceremony has been on my radar for quite some time now; I’ve corresponded with the folks there in the past, their coffee just never made its...
Augie’s Coffee Roasters // Santa Julia El Salvador
This month, MistoBox provided the Table with a blast from the not-too-distant past when they included a really tasty Guatemalan coffee from Klatch Coffee. The roaster coming out of the Box today is also from that time of the year. Augie’s sent me three awesome coffees back in January and I’ve been looking forward to...
Klatch Coffee // Guatemala Finca Covadonga
After yesterday’s incredible cup from Verve Coffee, it’s time we dip our collective cupping spoon a little bit further into April’s MistoBox. Klatch Coffee helped to introduce 2013 to the Table and those three coffees that they sent me were, coincidentally, my introduction to the company. As it turned out, they didn’t need a second...
Verve Coffee Roasters // El Salvador La Palma
It’s been a while, but the time is finally nigh—MistoBox Week is here again! Last month, MistoBox took a major step forward with the caliber of roasting companies that they source from with the likes of Passion House, Panther, Cartel, and Barefoot; this month, their Rolodex took another giant leap forward with the additions of...
