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Now Hiring: Lead Barista for The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room Passionate about specialty coffee & service? This is for you! Lead Barista Core Responsibilities  Front of House Leadership & Beverage Excellence in The Tasting Room (75% of time)  Create and serve drinks to the high standards set by the Tasting Room Manager  […]

Now Hiring: Lead Barista for The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room Passionate about specialty coffee & service? This is for you. Read the full Job Description here. Lead Barista Core Responsibilities  Front of House Leadership & Beverage Excellence in The Tasting Room (75% of time)  Create and serve drinks to the high standards […]

比較的単純な「フリーウォッシュト」や「ナチュラル」であっても、コーヒーの生産者が収穫したコーヒーを実際どのように加工し乾燥させているか、必ずしも正確に把握できているわけではありません。 コーヒーの発酵と加工法についての授業を控え、私は同僚のエヴァン・ギルマン Evan Gilman とともに「パルプトナチュラル」や「トリプルウォッシュ」といった言葉の意味を正確に分かりやすく伝えるための視覚化ツールを作成することにしました。

Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Daily Coffee News on Dec. 10, 2020, and is republished here with permission. Coffee Processing Styles and Terminology (Plus Flowchart) Infographic by Evan Gilman, Words by Chris Kornman Led by zeitgeisty processing methods such as anaerobic fermentation or carbonic maceration, new ways of developing flavor and removing fruit […]

Extolling the Virtues of Dark Roasts By Nate Lumpkin with illustrations by Elise Becker, Crown Baristas Man, I really love dark roast coffee. I love walking into a place and asking for a “coffee” and getting a cup that burns the heck out of my mouth and tastes like tar smoke. I love diner coffee, […]

New panel discussion at The Crown: What’s Brewing? March 27th, 2020 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm What’s Brewing is part of our “Understanding Extraction” series at The Crown, which brings experts together from adjacent industries to relate their experience with issues of sustainability, supply chain dynamics, explorations in flavor profiling, and how it all relates […]

Identifying Defects in Coffee March 5, 2020 09:30 AM (PST) Learn to grade coffee in this class focused on identifying both visual and taste flaws in the green beans. This class will cover both physical defects in green coffee and primary sensory defects. (Yep, we’ll be tasting them!)   Coffee Tasting: Brew Ratios March 6, […]

Tasting the Coffee Flavor Wheel Feb 6, 2020 03:00 PM (PST) An interactive tasting of the Sensory Lexicon of coffee using reference samples from fruits, spices, candies and many others. Go to event site Coffee Tasting: Southern Hemisphere Coffee Feb 7, 2020 01:00 PM (PST) Free, open to the public cupping (coffee industry standard sensory […]

Coffee Tasting: What is Honey Process? Jan 3, 2020 01:00 PM (PST) The first free, open-to-the-public coffee tasting of the new year, we’ll try some Honey process coffees. Go to event site Intro to Coffee Jan 11, 2020 02:00 PM (PST) A beginner-level class for enthusiasts, we’ll demystify the origins of coffee and explore the […]