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Wed, 22 May 2013 05:34:22 -0400

Hollywood Theatre and Harry Smith event

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:08:56 -0400

Hollywood Theatre and Harry Smith event

New crop 2013 Yirgy on my wake up agenda for tomorrow...

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:49:33 -0400

New crop 2013 Yirgy on my wake up agenda for tomorrow #ethiopiacoffee

Dispatch Detailing Rust

Sat, 04 May 2013 01:47:02 -0400

rabbit-light:

I was merely on
the cusp of growing
old when I shook
his hand, my enemy’s
hand, twelve years
ago & secretly gloated
over its frailty, its liver
spots & now I own
two enemy hands
of my own.

Sometimes now, these
hands of mine stroke
a steel blue dream that
will instantly inhabit rust.
Then they regain sanity,
become old bluebirds
in the blue sigh of sky.

Adrian C. Louis

New Letters
Volume 79, No. 1

My lovely wife Karin and i hanging in the sun room! (at...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:43:36 -0400

My lovely wife Karin and i hanging in the sun room! (at Seaside, Oregon)

Cannon Beach bro’ (at Cannon Beach)

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:53:34 -0400

Cannon Beach bro’ (at Cannon Beach)

Yessir! (at Seaside Beach)

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:42:43 -0400

Yessir! (at Seaside Beach)

Zeus sittin on top of the world…

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:19:48 -0400

Zeus sittin on top of the world…

@adamjmccl rockin @stumptowncoffee ace nyc

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:15:35 -0400

@adamjmccl rockin @stumptowncoffee ace nyc

MSG

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:27:36 -0400

MSG

linea-love: Skip Colombo - Stumptown Coffee Roasters

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:32:56 -0400

linea-love:

Skip Colombo - Stumptown Coffee Roasters

Making great coffee possible

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:32:20 -0400

linea-love:

Kevin Knox

I was the Coffee Specialist at Starbucks from 1987 (the original 12 stores) through 1993 (163 stores, company going public) and among my responsibilities were choosing all of the commercial brewing equipment and specifiying standards and recipes for its use.

While Starbucks had been in existence since 1971, the first espresso machine was installed in a store only in 1985, so these were heady days. I was confronted with a hodgepodge of La Marzoccos, Rancilios and Faemas and the pressing need to give our baristas the best tools possible during a time of explosive growth.

Italy had plenty of busy espresso bars, but the demands we were placing on equipment were unprecedented. Two four-group Lineas were installed at our Columbia Center store, which handled upwards of 6,000 customers a day (80% of them between 7:30 and 9:30 a.m.). This was a store where a half-gallon of milk disappeared in, literally, seconds, during the morning rush, and where awesome baristas could single-handedly operate a four-group machine making shots on all four groups while steaming milk in two-liter pitchers for the huge line of customers snaking out in front of them. Impeccable quality combined with staggering quanitities of precisely pulled shots and perfectly steamed milk were the requirements, and we would never have been able to meet the demands without the Linea machines.

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Coffee hand

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:35:16 -0400

Coffee hand

Day one at @cupofexcellence set to start Pereira! #CoCoE

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:21:24 -0400

Day one at @cupofexcellence set to start Pereira! #CoCoE

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Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:02:10 -0500

Antigua #lategeam

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:51:15 -0500

Antigua #lategeam

Early morning green lab liquoring with Mr. Kelso today…!...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:59:57 -0500

Early morning green lab liquoring with Mr. Kelso today…! Antigua round @stumptowncoffee #guatemala

Home.

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:42:30 -0500

Home.

Semana Santa in Antigua beginning to get...

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:15:59 -0500

Semana Santa in Antigua beginning to get organized…#guatemala #antigua #semanasanta2013

We’re on the road to Huehue

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:03:09 -0500

We’re on the road to Huehue