The Texas Coffee Think Tank: Initiation

August 26, 2007 · Filed Under Coffee, Community, Events, barista jam 

John Johnson of JP’s Java in Austin, TX decided to put together a regularly scheduled get-together where professionals in the coffee community could get together and share their expertise on a variety of topics relevant to the specialty coffee industry in Texas.

He called it the Texas Coffee Think Tank, and its first encarnation just occured on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2007. I was invited, but Austin isn’t so close, and I had a training session today. Let alone the costs and time demands.. which is a topic that is neither here nor there, so I shall continue.

Since I am a part of the official think tank, regardless of my ability to attend, I received an email, as did everyone else in the think tank, that recaps and summarizes the event. Thanks to John Johnson for filling us(me?) in.

He writes:

Okay,

So first meeting down. Aaron put together a fun and very informative cupping. I think we can all definitively say that the age of the bean, and the way in which it has been stored greatly effects the final flavor, even when they are from the same year and same crop. After lunch we discussed the future workings of these meetings or events. It looks like the host will pick the day and the subject for presentation, and sometimes we will taste multiple coffees from the same region just for the fun of it. I’ll work on a neat map we can stick pins in. Michael V. has taken over the month of October. If anyone would like to schedule an event, or maybe just an hour of tasting some coffees in September that would be great. I think its important that we do something each month, even if its very small, to keep up momentum. Also Jason (via satellite) pointed out that we should probably take pictures. Anyone interested in doing that in the future?

So, there you have it. I can say that good things are happening here in the panhandle, and it seems like South Central TX can take care of itself. Three cheers for JP’s, Medici, Cuvee, and The Brown Coffee Co for fighting the good fight and spreading the gospel of quality coffee in their neck of the woods of our great state of Texas.

I’d like to take a month on sometime in the future. Time is an issue, as is cost. We’ll see.

Hopefully next time we’ll have some pictures to show the world what great things are happening here in TX.

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  1. Brent patton on August 28th, 2007 7:22 am

    so what does it take to be included in the Official Think Tank?
    Brent

  2. John on August 30th, 2007 9:47 am

    You just have to be a coffee professional of some kind. Send me an email and I’ll put you on the list.
    juanjuanson@gmail.com

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