Haven't yet gotten a taste of the limited edition
Colombia Finca San Luis? Tasted it and want to try more Good Food Award winners? Join us this weekend in Ithaca and Brooklyn, where we'll be tasting Good Food Award winning coffees from Counter Culture Coffee, Broadway Cafe & Roasting, Klatch Coffee, Noble Coffee Roasting, and (of course) Gimme!
The tastings are free and open to the public -- bring your friends!
Ithaca Tasting (
Facebook invite & directions)
SATURDAY 2/4, 12pm-1pm
Gimme Training Lab, 506 W. State St, Ithaca NY 14850
Brooklyn Tasting (
Facebook invite & directions)
SUNDAY 2/5, 12pm-1pm
Gimme Training Lab, 107 Roebling St, Brooklyn NY 11211
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By now you must be aware that making espresso worth drinking is a manual process. If not, this is a tamper: It is used to pack fresh ground coffee just prior to pulling your shot.
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The much-anticipated
Weekly Free Coffee Cuppings at our Roebling Street Training Lab,
Saturdays at 12pm, start this Saturday, January 7th! Learn more about coffee, seed to cup, and participate in a guided tasting with our expert trainers.
We've been hosting free cuppings for over a year at our
Ithaca training lab - we are super excited to be opening our NYC lab to you and continuing our mission of coffee education. It's a big deal. Trust.
Try new and exciting coffees every Saturday at 12pm - no experience necessary. Remember, the classes are limited to the first 12 participants - so come early!
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On November 12th we participated in a tasting workshop for the Good Food Awards Roadshow.
We received a Good Food Award in 2011 for our Colombia Finca San Luis, and our commitment to producing delicious, transparent and responsibly grown food. This year we are (again) honored to be considered a finalist in the 2012 competition! Fingers crossed!
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During a trip to NYC this past weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting Continental Terminals, the warehouse where the majority of our coffee is stored after it comes off the boat and before it's trucked to Ithaca for roasting. The logistics involved in running this place are amazing, but they are pros and have been doing this since 1958.
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About 6 months ago we tweeted about a big Probat roaster that was listed on Craigslist in Montana. Last month it was still available, so we decided to get serious and go have a look.
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Last weekend, the STAP AIDS Ride for Life took place under sunny skies. Team Gimme riders got an early start and made a quick stop at Cayuga Street for a few shots of espresso to help get them going. Team Gimme had 27 registered riders!
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For the past many months, we've been working hard to form new relationships with growers in Central America, and this month we are releasing 2 new beautiful
relationship coffees from Guatemala. These coffees come to us from our ongoing work with Virmax Café, our exporting partners in Colombia, who have recently expanded their work north to Guatemala. One important bit of information to note about these coffees is that
they come from farms with the same name, though are completely different! The farms are in different regions, owned by different producers and have different flavor profiles.
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Ken David's
Coffee Review is, as their web header indicates, "The world's leading coffee buying guide." Ken, and his employees, solicit samples from various roasters around the world and offer both quantitative and qualitative data for consumers looking to get a sense of what to buy and from whom.
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We know you've been waiting a bit for our newest line of travel mugs to appear on shelves. Wait no longer. After months of testing and debating, we've chosen Tuff Mugs from Zojirushi - an industry leader in vacuum insulation technology for over 90 years. These stainless steel bottles come in two sizes - the Red Love Coffee is 12oz and the Black Diamonds is 16oz. Each is laser etched (yes, etched) with a unique design created by our in-house graphic designer,
Joshua Sperling. Vacuum insulation keeps your coffee hot or cold for hours upon hours! Both feature a wide mouth opening for ice cubes and a nonstick interior for easy cleaning. Look no further for the travel tumbler that'll allow you to take your coffee to-go in style. Get yours in stores today and online soon!
Honduras Las Peñitas is back! In fact, we have 2 small lots from this farm that we will be releasing consecutively, both of which have slight differences, but nonetheless exemplify the silky bodied and clean fruit characteristics that took 3rd place in the United States Barista Competition Brewer's Cup (by the skilled hand of NYC Regional Trainer, Erin McCarthy) in May. This year we were able to work more directly with
Jorge Benitez, the 22-year-old farmer of Las Peñitas, and
Beneficio San Vicente, the mill that is responsible for over 60% of the 2011 Honduras Cup of Excellence winners, to bring in this coffee at fair price, and establish a long-term partnership.
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"How can I get the
coffee I brew at home to taste as good as it does in the store?" If I had a dime for every time I heard that question while working in a Gimme cafe, I'd be on my way to a Dollywood vacation right now.
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