Three Aeropresses, One Barista
Carlos Aguirre Gano, an inventive barista championship competitor in El Salvador, used a rig to press 3 Aeropresses at once. I don’t know Spanish, but it’s been suggested that he brewed the same coffee at several roast profiles. If you can translate more, please post in the comments :) Now, watch and be amazed (at...
SCRW – Seating Design by Manuel Welsky
I love the “SCRW” stool designed by Manuel Welsky. The color contrast, the way form & function playfully complement each other, and the giant cork seat all make for an eye-catching visual that begs for tactile interaction. I could see something like this fitting in nicely at some of Korea’s indie cafes, with their quirky...
Single Origin Coffee, LA Farmers Market at 3rd and Fairfax
Coffee news in recent weeks has been dominated by the highly anticipated opening of Handsome Coffee Roasters in Downtown LA. But not to be overshadowed, another noteworthy cafe called Single Origin just opened its doors. This new shop is in the Farmers Market at 3rd and Fairfax, next to the Grove shopping mall, and it’s...
Music to Brew to March 4th
Some new music to brew to this Sunday afternoon :) Love this video Holy Other – Feel Something Vola & the Oriental Machine – Yume Shindan Adele + Daft Punk mashup by Carlos Serrano Some new music to brew to this Sunday afternoon :) Love this video Holy Other - Feel Something Vola & the...
Porcelain Espresso Machine by Arvid Häusser
Arvid Häusser, a product design student at Bauhaus University, gives us a creative look at how espresso machine design could be re-imagined: The qualities of porcelain like high thermal storage, neutrality in taste and an antiseptic surface are making the material ideal for the use in food context. The machine is attached on...
Blue Bottle Coffee, Manhattan
Blue Bottle has been one of the bigger success stories in specialty coffee, garnering press and praise since the early 2000s, starting with its locations in San Francisco. Since then, they’ve expanded rapidly, with recent profit growth of 50% each year. Blue Bottle excels in creating and telling its own trend-setting story about coffee, using...
La Frontera, Peru – Counter Culture Coffee
La Frontera, as the bag explains, is the name given to a collection of small family coffee farms in Peru near the border with Ecuador. In 2007, we began our work with five small cooperatives of farmers in a valley with no name, calling the project Valle del Santuario. It has been our most successful...
Cup of Excellence Coffee Explained
Cup of Excellence, often abbreviated COE on menus, is something more consumers should know about. The video above was produced by Toby’s Estate and it does a great job explaining the competition, interviewing both judges & farmers, and showing what it all entails. In short, Cup of Excellence is a program active in several coffee...
Gregg Kallor – Espresso Nirvana (#M2B2)
This week’s music to brew to arrived in my inbox a few weeks ago, thanks to Gregg Kallor, a regular at Joe’s Coffee here in New York. But his music is far from regular – it’s pretty extraordinary. He composed the piece below prior to his debut at Carnegie Hall, as part of piano suite...
Best Cafes in Seoul, Korea: 2012 Updates
I moved from Korea to Sweden back in the summer of 2010, and that unfortunately marked the end of my coverage of Korea’s best cafes & roasters (and a few of its quirkiest). However, I get a lot of people asking for recommendations about where to visit in Korea. A number of interesting new cafes...
Music to Brew to – 2/12/12
Picking up from last week, a new feature at FRSHGRND highlighting some music to brew to every sunday. If you missed it, read here for the full story behind music to brew to. Thanks for this weeks inspiration, Candus! An ecclectic mix of ’70s and early ’80s goodness. May all your brews be groovy &...
1960s London Cafes & Thoughts About Cafe Design
I’m loving this old video, shot in documentary style, looking at the wide variety of cafes that had opened up in London in the 1950s and 1960s. Part of its charm lies in its anthropological gaze, spending most of the allotted time on the unglamorous and precarious economic end of the business, while highlighting the...
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