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2010: a space odyssey

Happy new year!  We’re going to kick this year off with a new blend.  I didn’t think we’d be going with any blends at all, but as it turns out, this new blend is a gem.  A blend consisting of the Guatemala Villaure and the Ethiopia Yirgacheffe, a blend that defies all odds.

2010 news:

The toast is dynamite.  We have three different loaves today.

New coffees on the way, so keep your eyes and ears open.

Sadly, it is Mike and Ryan’s last [...]

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Seven ways to win…a memoir.

These are the seven deadly sins.

The installation no longer exists in the cafe, but to those that missed it, it was eye opening.

Next installation:

Big lattes, short people.

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A toast….to toast…and butter cutters.

Get ready for the ultimate toast experience.  Gaze upon the glory of our butter cutter.  The butter cutter executes the purpose of its design with the utmost of grace.  Try some of our butter from the butter cutter today.  Looming over the butter cutter is the amazing wonder of Fressen.  Fressen is supplying us with a nice assortment of breads just waiting to be toasted.  Toast!

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The Holy Trinity of the Heart

Actually there are seven of us.

We have a new table.  Come sit and try it out.  Give us feedback on it’s curvature, it’s aesthetic, it’s capacity to please you.

Come try some coffee that we don’t even have on our menu!  It’s from El Salvador…or is it?

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A christmas blend

Well here it is, the christmas blend. Expect notes of candy canes and yuel logs, a distinct aroma of toasted chestnuts, and a long frosty finish. We have no christmas blend. However, we do have a new blend that will be filling our hopper at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning alongside the yirgacheffe espresso. This blend cupped really well. It cupped so well in fact that I gave much kudos to blends in general. [...]

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