Paircafe Taste Science and Gimme! Coffee
Gimme! Coffee's Upstate Lab Series will be featuring a three-part program presented by Taste Science, LLC, and their new venture, Paircafé™. Taste Science, LLC is a local firm researching taste and flavor perception, and how different flavors can either clash or complement each other. Taste Science, LLC is a collaboration between Virginia Utermohlen Lovelace, MD and Chef Renée Senne and has pioneered work in pairing tea with food, under the name Pairteas™. They are now continuing this tradition with coffee by partnering with Gimme! Coffee.
Tasting at Espresso 77
I walked into Espresso 77 in the cozy community of Jackson Heights, Queens, and was immediately greeted by kind and curious faces.
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NYC Experience
No matter how many times I visit New York City, I always feel like that country singer from Iowa stepping off the bus for the first time. I am forever in awe of its majesty and was truly looking forward to exploring Brooklyn (for the first time in years) and Soho, as my trip included visiting the three NYC Gimme! Coffee locations.
Lab Series Update for NYC
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Cupping Training in Sumatra
The region of North Sumatra is known for the classic Mandheling and Lintong coffee profiles: earthy, spicy, and a low level acidity that can still ring sweet and balanced in a well sorted sample. However, deliveries of grade 1 and Specialty coffees are becoming less frequent as lack of information about good agricultural practices (GAP) is leading to more defective coffee lots.
Finger Lakes Lab Series Begins
Gimme! Coffee has a good use for that extra hour of sunlight. Starting this Wednesday we will begin our "Lab Series," which replaces our Saturday cuppings. The new format will take a more casual tasting setting and will be more conducive to just "popping in" ... and we hope you do.
A Visit to Dana's Workshop
Recent Barista Competitor Lanny Huang and I went to visit the shop of Dana Paul, the man who has been custom making Barista's tampers over the past few years. Dana began the quest to create a tool that would best fit the Barista, by removing the need to compensate for a one size fits all instrument, which would allow Baristas to fully immerse themselves in their craft.
A Tasting Experience
For those of you who have yet to fall in love with Gimme! Coffee, (early) springtime is the perfect time of the year to start a romantic relationship with a relationship coffee.What I Love About Coffee
In honor of St. Valentine's day this month, I've been talking a lot about why I love coffee. In the Lab Series event on Wednesday, I shared a my love of coffee's smell -- the fragrance of freshly ground beans, the way it bubbles and blooms when you add water, and the amazing aroma of a freshly brewed cup of coffee. It's something that I think most people, coffee professionals and novices alike, appreciate about coffee. It smells so good that something goes off in my brain that says, "oh, yeah!" I love it!
Wholesale Cupping - Brooklyn
Barista Nation SF, TNT NYC, and Knockbox Classic
I traveled to San Francisco for the second annual Barista Nation SF January 18-20. My trip coincided with the Good Food Awards and on Saturday morning I skipped out from Barista Nation to walk around the Good Food Awards marketplace. The marketplace was packed with producers sharing their Good Food with hungry attendees. This year, Gimme! Coffee received their third Good Food Award for Finca San Luis La Gloria.
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Homebrewing ala Chemex
This blog post is written by Toby Maxwell, a forever-Barista who competed in the Brewers Cup last year. The picture above is of Toby (right) and Gimme! Coffee's Tyler (left) after the Brewers Cup, just when we were about to drive back to Ithaca. Watching Toby and Tyler brew with calm confidence was an awesome result of all the hard work they put into training for the event. Toby found time to write this post while studying Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry at UC Davis, no doubt over coffee. Toby competed with our El Salvador Miralvalle and he spent hours in the lab fine tuning his preparation technique, one phrase I remember hearing was, "I want the lime to hit first," which seems like a passing phrase, and easy enough, it's a top note, right? But that's the amazing thing about coffee, you can use your skill to allow the coffee to unfold in the way that best describes it. The other amazing thing is Toby knew that coffee better than anyone in the world, every coffee lot is different and Toby got to know the personality of the Miralvalle like no one else, it became known as "Toby's coffee." Here is a great breakdown on the brewing of a Chemex by Toby:
The Cafe Experience
Introducing Gimme! Coffee's New Lab Series in New York City
Have you ever wanted to know how to brew a Clever at home? Or have you ever wondered if grinding your coffee just before you brew it makes that big of a difference in the taste? Or are you just interested in some free coffee? Well, consider this a standing invitation to attend our Lab Series every Wednesday at 3:00 pm in our Roebling St. Training Lab (107 Roebling St at N6th St. in Brooklyn).
The Cupping Experience
A few days prior to getting hired at Gimme! Coffee, I was invited to a cupping event. Not knowing what to expect or what to wear, I showed up dressed in my usual black over black and soon discovered that was the dress code. Only wished I had remembered my scarf. Gimme! Coffee holds weekly cuppings at their labs in Ithaca and Brooklyn and the public is invited to attend.
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God is My Way...or "The Highway"
Back in August, I was an observer at the first ever Burundi Cup of Excellence. One day, after a battery of intensive cupping sessions, we boarded a bus and headed from the city center to the highlands.
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