Four Barrel opened their new parklet today. There’s a wood bar to hold your beverages, a brick flooring, and a bike rack in the middle. The design fits the Four Barrel industrial-brown aesthetic and looks like it should last. All they need now are some climbing plants to grow over the metal trellises.
Recently, Vic Wong of MissionMission was kind enough to invite a few of us over to taste Kopi Luwak, a type of coffee that’s consumed by a civet and, well — shat out — before it’s consumed as coffee.
I can’t say I particularly enjoyed the taste, but you can read more about this over at MissionMission.
You’re looking at me like I’m crazy, but roasting your own coffee is where it’s at.
It’s pretty damn easy and it doesn’t take much to get started. I tinkered with roasting for years using nothing but a $3 electric popcorn popper I got from Goodwill. But you don’t even need that — Blue Bottle’s James Freeman got his start roasting coffee in his oven.
I got this particular roaster because it has a catalytic converter to reduce the smoke output. I also like the humor of the word “Professional” written on the plastic housing. It’s great for home use, but professional? Please.
There’s a number of places to buy raw coffee beans. Oakland-based e-tailer Sweet Marias is the best.
Anyway, I’ve been using the Nesco roaster for almost a month now, and give it two caffeinated thumbs up.
Copy and paste? Multitasking? Folders?
These are old concepts; even on phones. But don’t tell Apple fans that the “new” features on their precious JesusPhone were on your Treo half a decade ago.
Likewise, Turkish coffee is over one thousand years old. But slap an Apple log on it and it’s exciting and new!
Behold the new Apple iBrik. It’s shiny and has an Apple logo, that’s all that matters.
My other site, Espresso Guy, now has the Holiday Gift Guide back online.
This is the gift guide for the coffee lover(s) in your life. It covers espresso, drip coffee, Turkish coffee, and press pot (french press) coffee. Do check it out today, won’t you?