dotCross Coffee Project

04/16/2016

While the SCAA is happening in Atlanta, here's something from another part of the globe.

This is "Kyiv Coffee Festival" by jhenya on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

01/13/2016

Fascinating stuff!

The coffee berry borer is a plague that affects coffee crops, it has a detoxification system based on microbial communities, therefore, is able to perform its life cycle in this plant, exposed to high levels of caffeine, being able to consume the equivalent to 500 espressos, a level so high of the s…

09/13/2015

We may or may not have perpetuated some of these and we might be sorry about that. But it is a good read!

Late last year, ChefSteps put out an educational series on making espresso in the home. The series was done in conjunction with the folks at La Marzocco Home. It's a good series of educational videos on making espresso and the things that surround it, but I had two criticisms of the videos, one min…

07/02/2015

3-D print your way to a tidy coffee corner!

A stand for all the parts of the aeropress when they're not in use

05/27/2015

Tamago Coffee & Bikes, a new addition to the Hyde Park community, serving great coffee (from Gaslight Coffee Roasters today) and BANG BANG PIES! We'll definitely visit again.

04/15/2015

Adorbs!

Sometimes it’s the cute stuff that catches my eye. I’m only human. And so that’s why I couldn’t get enough of this happy little roaster at SCAA 2015, called the Aillio Bullet R1, with its cute little legs and round little butt. It’s a 1-kilo sample roaster designed in Denmark and built in Taiwan, wh…

03/20/2015

One of us at is in Ithaca and got to try the 2014 Rwanda COE made with a Kalita at Gimme! Coffee. Lovely.

03/14/2015

Did you know that the Chemex was a 40s invention from NYC?

In a story three years in the making, Sprudge Associate Editor Liz Clayton visits the Chemex coffee maker factory in Chicopee, Massachusetts.

03/11/2015

We discovered a gold mine today! Just kidding, but kafster's map of specialty coffee roasters by state is pretty cool. Anyone know of great roasters in that could be added to it?

02/17/2015

Espresso differences in different brew styles!

Written by Ben Blake Brewing espresso seems like a pretty straightforward process, but there are actually quite a few variables that we’re looking to control and balance at one time in order to get...

01/13/2015

We built a travel kit! Here's to bringing good coffee everywhere you go this 2015.
*We are not affiliated with Herschel Supply Co. It just fit our purposes.

01/10/2015

1-up the butter coffee with egg coffee.