Pat McGarraugh from Caravan Coffee Roastery of Newberg, Oregon sent me photos from the 2009 Dancing Flames Home Coffee Roasting Festival. The results for the event were:
1st Place winner is Fred Shipley of Newberg, OR
2nd Place winner is Curtis Byers of Salem, OR
3rd Place winner is Dick Van Noord of Newberg, OR
The event raised [...]
I attended an unnamed Coffee Event in 2007. I’m not going to name names, because it is not the intention of this post to attack the host, but the process. For the rest of this post I will refer to the unnamed event as Coffee Event. Although, my specific problems are related to a single [...]
Caravan Coffee of Newberg, Oregon is hosting a first ever Home Coffee Roasting Festival on Saturday June 13th. The name of the festival is Dancing Flames. Let us hope their idea of dancing flames isn’t like my 2001 Melitta Aromaroast Mishap. Admission is free, but they will be collecting money for the [...]
This year I left the espresso comfort of Seattle and ventured to The Big Easy for my first trip to New Orleans. Bringing my Rancilio Silvia and a pound of espresso was not an option. I’d have to fend for myself and live off the espresso land. How did I fair?
After landing at the Louis [...]
