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Kick it Up for Coffee Kids® – Auction Opens Tomorrow, May 1, 2009!
Homeroasters.org, a community of volunteers and enthusiasts dedicated to serving the home-coffee-roasting community. This year, they have decided to kick it up a notch!
Throughout the month of May 2009, Homeroasters.org is conducting auctions on a wide variety of items, many of which the specialty coffee industry donated with jubilation. Items up for bid range from assortments of top-quality green coffee, to magazine subscriptions, grinders, brewers, roasters and much, much more including a Sweet Maria’s Soccer Ball; all proceeds going directly to Coffee Kids®.
Coffee Kids® Grounds for Hope was born out of the specialty coffee industry by Bill Fishbein in 1988. Coffee Kids® has distributed over $4 million dollars in funds “to help coffee-farming families improve the quality of their lives.” With four distinct areas of focus, Latin American countries have realized improvements in healthcare, education for children, community-based projects and micro-credit consisting of $50 – $100 loans that have enabled over 4,000 women to own their own businesses and support their families.
Find out more about Coffee Kids® at http://www.coffeekids.org
If you would like to bid on anything, please register as a member of Homeroasters.org and enjoy the auction.
Let the bidding begin! Click Here and Kick it Up for Coffee Kids®!
PASS IT ON!
Once Over Coffee Bar Grand Opening: Austin, TX
As taken from an email:
Come one, come all to ONCE OVER COFFEE BAR’S GRAND OPENING PARTY!
2009 S. 1st Street (between Mary and Live Oak*)
SCAA Exposition: Atlanta, GA
If you plan on going, Ben S. wants to know: http://tx-coffee.com/forum/index.php?topic=234.0
Along with the SCAA show will be the World Barista Competition. It all comes to this, folks. The title was grasped by two men from English-speaking European countries the last two years. Is this another trend like the Scandinavian trend we saw in years past? Who knows.
There will be coffee parties like nobody’s business all over the place, some even held at the same time.
If you ARE going, send us your pictures! (only if you want them to be published here and to be seen by the public).
You can also post them to the Texas Coffee People Flickr group.
Random Picture Friday #10: Drinkable
Do you find yourself muttering this while leaving a coffee retailer? I have. Recently, too. Friends, it simply should not be this way. But… at least the coffee was drinkable today. 
Have a Great Weekend!
Random Picture Friday #9: BEVERAGE CADDi
Animated version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdcqSAtEn6s
April Fool’s Day: Yesterday
If you caught yesterday’s post, you probably caught it right away. If you did, good job. You have probably been conditioned by last year’s attempt. (which, apparently, was passed around pretty good!)
If you did not happen to notice, then I apologize for having deceived you, even if only for a 24 hour period. It’s all in good fun!
Happy April Fools Day! (well, it’s a day late, but it’s better late than never, right?)
Crooked Tree Coffee House: Visited
I was in Dallas recently, and drove by The Pearl Cup, which was closing (we were in the area at a quarter to 9pm.. seems quite early to be closing for that area, but it’s what time they close). So, On a bit further to Crooked Tree Coffee House.
There were bags of Oak Cliff Coffee hanging around on the shelf, along with some coffee from their other supplier,Buy Well.
Apologies for the “pocket pc”-quality picture. There is a latte in each cup. The milk was frothed well. I have had better, and I have had worse, but overall, the foam was good.
They are pulling shots on a Rancillio 2 group with a Super Jolly-sized solitary grinder.
The espresso was dosed (less than full), “jiggled”, and tamped, with no post-dose distribution. While the latte wasn’t bitter in the overextracted sense, it was neither sour, and it was difficult to place the coffee. In fact, it didn’t taste very much like coffee at all. It tasted like a tall cup of frothed milk. Not offensive, but also not what I was hoping for in a caffe latte. I did notice a tinge of “earthiness”, which implies a Sumatran coffee to me, although I don’t want to say anything definitive without knowing for sure.
The art on the walls was from a Dallas-born photographer living in Brooklyn, NY. The photography was a great accent, and was quite good. The walls and decor are easy on the eyes, but the seating arrangement left much to be desired. For how much space there is available, it seemed that not many people could fit comfortably in the space due to this arrangement. Furthermore, the chairs that were available were downright uncomfortable. I felt much too cozy to our neighbors at the other table, while at the same time trying to figure out a way to sit comfortably in the chairs that we had found vacant. (the only two at the time)
I wanted to try the brewed coffee to give Oak Cliff Coffee a whirl, but I didn’t want to hang around due to the lack of comfort, and it was later at night (so it was one or the other, and I thought it to be more fair to try the skills of the shop being visited).
Worth dropping by if you’re near the area, but don’t plan on spending too much time there, and you may ask for an extra shot in your latte (or just stick with a cup of brewed coffee instead).
TX-Coffee Gives UP Coffee and Switches to Tea.(April Fools!)
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve gotten quite tired of coffee lately.
This blog has had a good run, and it shall continue, but no longer as a resource for coffee. From now on, tx-coffee will discuss tea and tizanes, and will stop focusing on coffee.
To all the friends of this site, thanks for promoting us, thanks for contributing, and thanks for reading. I hope the coffee industry fares well!
Please excuse the URL until we have a chance to get it changed. The theme will change with the URL in a couple of weeks.
In the mean time, stick around if you’d like to join us in our transition away from the bean, and into the world of tea and herb infusions.
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