Coffee Talk

Brotherhood of the Bean on May 10th, 2007

I don’t quite know why, but today I found myself thinking about what was quite possibly the oddest dinner I have ever had. About twelve years ago my wife and I were invited out to by a co-worker for dinner. This in itself was neither odd or unusual, we after all went to dinner quite [...]

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Olaf on May 1st, 2007

Cross-posted from gradin.com… I have a sordid history with Starbucks and my mug. I can speak singularly about my mug even though years have passed because I’ve been using the same mug now for…jeez…probably 5 years or so. Before that, I had another one. And before that, I think it was the mug I used [...]

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Olaf on May 1st, 2007

if you’re headed to the greatest piece of manufactured tourism in the world anytime soon, don’t forget to pack some coffee. You don’t want to be decaffeinated at that place!

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Brotherhood of the Bean on April 23rd, 2007

It was inevitable that someone, in the grand search for a faster way to wake up in the morning would pair up our beloved caffeine with the most unlikely of allies — SOAP. Enter ThinkGeek.com, innovators, inventors, geeks.. A site the inner boy in every man loves, and the bane of girlfriends and wives the [...]

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Brotherhood of the Bean on April 19th, 2007

News agencies around the world have announced that the Government of Jamaica will be divesting its stake in Blue Mountain Coffee. After making assurances that the privatization effort will be stand open to scrutiny and be fair equitable and objective. The Jamaica Gleaner News reports that Minister Roger Clarke described the private sector as “the [...]

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Brotherhood of the Bean on April 15th, 2007

Fade from black. Queue theme song: “Bad boys, Bad boys, what you gonna do, what you gonna do when the Java comes for you.” Queue Announcer: “Tonight on “Cups” a tale of interoffice anger, confrontation and assault with a deadly Coffee cup. Tonight on “Cups”! Fade to Brotherhood of the Bean host. Seriously, I have [...]

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Brotherhood of the Bean on April 15th, 2007

It had been a morning filled with good coffee, and even better conversation. An idyllic time when everything just seems right in the world. Returning home I sought out my wife to give her a kiss thinking it would be a great way to cap off a perfect morning. As I leaned in to give [...]

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Olaf on April 13th, 2007

I learned some interesting facts about coffee from an episode of Modern Marvels. The show was an hour long, but had enough information packed into it to go into a mini series. Coffee’s history is far more illustrious than I ever imagined.

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