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BV Roastery Latte Competition!

Last Friday, we held our first ever latte competition here at the Buena Vista Roastery, and what a fun night it [...]

Tobacco infused latte, anyone??

A signature drink is not just a crazy concoction that happens to include espresso… instead, the coffee is the heart and soul of the drink, and any other ingredients, exotic though they may be, are merely added to bring out the many and varied flavors hiding within the espresso. [...]

Art and Coffee

Still, no matter how well we like to think we are doing in our ‘art with coffee’, there is somewhere new, like Coffee on Paper. [...]

The Buena Vista Roastery & Bongo Billy’s Coffees Moves

BV Roastery & Bongo’s Moves

We have a new, old, location. For those of you who were able to track us down in the alley behind Mother’s Bistro in the heart of Buena Vista, kudos to you. The Roastery and Bongo’s international headquarters is now back at 409 E Main, where were had been three years [...]

Peaberry’s Shuts its Doors

Peaberry’s Shuts its Doors

A year ago we, the Buena Vista Roastery, participated in a ‘coffee-off’ vying for a substantial account. Peaberry’s Coffee gave a presentation with a slide show and coffee samples. We gave one as well and got the account, beating out three other roasters. The guy from Peaberry’s commended our ‘thing,’ as in [...]

My visit to Virginia’s Shenandoah Joe’s

My visit to Virginia’s Shenandoah Joe’s

I had the fortune of visiting an old friend in Charlottesville over the past couple of days. I first intentionally drank coffee with this individual one morning in college after writing a term paper and spinning vinyl for our radio show, The Alternate Route. We were in our Contemporary Phase, [...]

Specialty Coffee in Salida

Specialty Coffee in Salida

Java Girl has recently posted a bit about specialty coffee in her post, Getting Started with Specialty Coffee, specifically ordering at Bongo Billy’s Salida Cafe. The BV Roastery roasts all the coffee for Bongo Billy’s, so it’s great to see mention of some of the cafes that carry the coffee, particularly a [...]

Watch out for the World Barista Championships

World Barista Championship

The annual SCAA Conference rapidly approaches. The Specialty Coffee Association of America is holding this year’s April event in Atlanta at the city’s colossal conference center – truly a fascinating megacomplex and engineering accomplishment. We at the BV Roastery will be there looking for some relationship coffees, exploring the newest eco-friendly packaging, attending [...]

Some History of Bay Area Coffee

Some History of Bay Area Coffee

As many know, San Francisco carries a stigma of being the hot spot for coffee and the inspiration for the coffee culture, sparking trends that then spread to other parts of the country. The coffee culture is strong and thick. It is in Seattle and Portland as well, not to [...]

A New Cafe in Buena Vista

ChannelBV just posted a news release about the new Global Cafe opening this weekend in Buena Vista. It’s always exciting to have a spat of entrepreneurship in town. The owners are also working on building a brownstone complex of some sort just off Main Street. Even with economic downturn in the country, this town is [...]