There are a few times where I really wish Hario, the Japanese Glass Maker and Coffee Maker, never made the Hario V60 coffee brewing system. Don’t get me wrong. The V60 brewer is fantastic and helped usher in the current 15+ year wave of manual pour over coffee, to the point now where literally everyone
Month: February 2022
In the course of running CoffeeGeek, we found out that a few celebrities here and there were actually fans of the website and on a very personal note, this made me quite proud of what we’d done with the community and the information we published and shared. Probably the most famous person ever to read
Long before Barista Magazine, long before YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, long before websites like Sprudge, long before anything else online, CoffeeGeek pioneered covering and showcasing barista championships. The first such event we covered was a “Barista Jam” in February of 2003 (that article’s feature will come later this month), and we reported and documented the first
As we continue to highlight and re-publish articles from the past twenty years on CoffeeGeek, one of our earliest columnists and contributors was Aaron De Lazzer, who was a trainer and coffee roaster in Vancouver, first for JJ Bean, and then for Ethical Bean Coffee (where today is he is the Director of Coffee) De
This is the third of a three part series of blog posts delving into the people and companies that were either heavily involved with CoffeeGeek, its foundation and its community, or were major influencers of CoffeeGeek, it’s community, and me personally. The first part focused on the two owners of Baratza; without them, this site
This is a three part series of blog posts delving into the people and companies that where either heavily involved with CoffeeGeek and its community, or heavily influenced by CoffeeGeek and it’s community. The first part, which focused on the two owners of Baratza and how they were a big part in CoffeeGeek’s early foundation
I still can’t believe it. I can’t believe that this website, which has been a core part of my being for so long, is 20 years old this year, this month. But there it is: CoffeeGeek is officially 20 years old as of this writing. Twenty years is a lifetime and then some on the
I’m so excited and to be honest, I can’t believe it. It’s been twenty years, as of February 3, 2022, that CoffeeGeek has been online! We launched as a private beta on December 12, 2001, but officially launched (with very early community oriented features) 20 years ago today! That’s centuries in Internet time, and we