Tasting coffee with the wizard
George Howell reminds me of a wizard. He has bright blue eyes and white hair, and he has a magical understanding of the atoms and aromas and textures that go into coffee. Ayr and I
George Howell reminds me of a wizard. He has bright blue eyes and white hair, and he has a magical understanding of the atoms and aromas and textures that go into coffee. Ayr and I
The other week we joined George Howell to taste new coffees. Tasting with George Howell is amazing and the coffees were surprising and beautiful. Chris who runs our food set this up, two of his managers
Lucia keeps calling the Paw Paw an alien. And I guess it’s sort of alien-y. Custard-y. Mango-y. Avocado-y. Those are all descriptions I’ve heard in the past few days. As you may know if you’ve
I heard some crazy statistic one time that said three-quarters of Boston residents had met Mayor Menino. (For the record, I haven’t met him, but I have it on good authority that he used to
You might have heard us talking about The Coffee Connection. I admit, I’m too young to remember it. This was the chain of 24 coffee shops started by George Howell back in the late 1970’s.
Intelligentsia sent us some samples of their newest single-origin coffees. If you know our coffee program, you know we only pour coffees from single farms (no blends). Each one we tasted we liked even better
If you’re not part of the coffee world, you may not know that all the coffee growers, roasters, and coffeeshop owners in the world are converging on Boston right now for the Specialty Coffee Association
You might remember last summer our iced coffee was written up by the Boston Globe alongside Dunkin and Starbucks in a must-have-iced-coffee-in-Boston article. You might not know that I’ve never really been happy with our
This was our second visit to Intelligentsia’s roasting facilities, this time we visited their headquarters. The first visit was on the West Coast to their facility in LA. If you want to count Ecco, a
Three years ago today we first tried coffee on the menu. Here’s an old picture from one of those first samples I received. This was back before I knew anything. I mean, anything. My parents
