Monthly Archives: December 2011

Quality: What is it and how do we deliver it?

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Global Citizen

Reflections on the year’s SCAA Symposium By Kevin Knox At this year’s SCAA Symposium one presenter asked whether quality alone was enough to equal sustainability. Another suggested jettisoning the carefully crafted SCAA and Cup of Excellence cupping forms in favor … Continue reading →

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Tiago Espresso Bar & Handsome Coffee Roaster Tasting Event

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Global Citizen

Thursday Dec 22nd Tiago Espresso Bar teams up with Handsome Coffee Roaster to bring you a very special tasting with your host, The 2010 World Barista Champion, Micheal Phillips. Handome Coffee Roaster will roll out their current selection of beans … Continue reading →

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New coffee bar focuses on community, sustainability

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Global Citizen

Two Sacramentans with a decade each working in local coffee bars are set to branch out on their own this week as they open Insight Coffee Roasters at Eighth and S streets. Ben Lance and Lucky Rodrigues met about five … Continue reading →

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Ecco Coffee’s Andrew Barnett Explains Why Restaurant Coffee Is Rarely Good

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Global Citizen

​In an effort to chart the ever-expanding specialty coffee scene in the Bay Area, we’ve been engaging a selection of local coffee personalities to pick their brains about why coffee and why now. Today we talk with Andrew Barnett of Ecco … Continue reading →

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