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 [...]
Dustin Urban, Local Buena Vistan
Paddlefest 2009
We are starting to think of summer here in Buena Vista Colorado. The season tends to officially begin with Colorado Kayak Supply’s Paddlefest. Here’s what Earl, kayaker extraordinaire and co-owner of CKS, has to say,
Whitewater enthusiasts will descend onto the historic town of Buena Vista on the Upper Arkansas [...]
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 [...]
The central Rockies have been oozing spring lately. One of our own Roastery family has been down the Narrows Section of the not-so-mighty-in-winter Arkansas River and Earl of CKS fame has been spotted kayaking in the Buena Vista playhole. We are dry in town and contemplating the garden, understanding that I have 2 or 3 [...]
Yesterday in the Roastery, we were cupping a few organic Brazilian coffees – a Chapada Dinamata, a Tres Fazendas, and a Fazendas Santa Marta. During our discussions afterward, one of our roasters noted his observation of more and more Uganda coffees showing themselves in various coffee markets.
I understand this is a relative unknown in the [...]