Your Girlfriend Better Likes Coffee.

An amusing find by James.

Love the commercial, not the beer...It gives me hangovers...

World's Smallest Espresso Machine.

Aesthetic. Portable. Capable? That I don't know...

It is inexpensive enough to get one and put it on display.

Steve-O!

The Coffee Hound is making the news!

Esmeralda's Preview Party.

Intelligentsia is having a special preview party for the 2007 award winning Esmeralda at its roasting facility on October 1. For US$25.00, you get to taste one the most expensive coffee in the world and a ¼ pound of its less famous kin. I may just pony up the money for the bragging right.

We Have A Winner!

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Originally uploaded by tonx.

It all started with James Hoffmann , the 2007 World Barista Champion, who came up with some sort of absurd yet interesting latte art challenge. The goal is to pour the latte art in whatever things you can imagine. About all the pours are technically difficult, but uninspiring, only a few pours caught my eyes. Like James’ and Stephen Morrissey’s rosetta pours in the open hands, Perrys’ art in a tomato, and Head CoffeeGeek Mark’s in the twin martini shaker caps. Nothing, but nothing can top this wild and crazy one by Ryan Wilbur from Intelligentsia in L.A..

Update…The challenge is getting more interesting…There was the mouth, and now the ear. Look at the way it is going, I don’t want to see the latte art in other orifices of a human body!

Surfs Up!

Some guys at o2m8 built a coffee machine that can be controlled via the internet. The only problem with this machine, KRUPS XN2005, is designed to brew one coffee capsule at a time. The next challenge for them is, as one reader commented, to build a capsule magazine. As for me, I make my own drinks…

Poor Man's Esmeralda.

For only $24.95 per 1/2 lb from Peet’s. Ok, this is not the same 2007 award winning 10bag, total of 500 pounds authentic auction lot of Hacienda la Esmeralda Especial, but it is from the same farm who brought you this famous exotic coffee.

Here is a better deal, for $29.95 for a 12 oz bag at Coffee Klatch.

Pavarotti (1935 - 2007)

Tsk...Tsk...Tsk...God Bless You...

If you can’t tell the difference between the two.