January 8, 2009 at 1:27 pm
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Now We’re Wired
Coffee and tea communities on the Web
from an article by Chris Ryan at Fresh Cup Website
Alt.coffee - A Google group, the first coffee forum, and it still has folks that frequented alt.coffee when it was a news group and the Internet was in its infancy
Barista Guild of America forum—Topics include barista competitions and job postings, and both public and private forums exist.
Bread Coffee Chocolate Yoga—Fortune Elkins of the SCAA maintains this blog about four of her favorite things.
CoffeeGeek—A comprehensive community site, including frequently updated content, reviews, forums, podcasts and more.
Coffee Kid—CoffeeGeek creator Mark Prince’s personal Web site about coffee.
Coffee Meetup —
SCAA-sponsored site is a useful tool for organizing meetings of coffee groups.
Coffee Snobs — Australia-based forum in which visitors can post on myriad topics.
Coffeed - Started by Alistair Durie of Elysian Coffee, this busy forum site is aimed at “professionals and fanatics,” with postings falling into general categories like roasting, espresso and brewing.
DoubleShot Coffee - Owner Brian Franklin uses his blog to communicate with customers about coffee fun facts, store goings-on and more.
Home Barista - A forum-based Web community dedicated to the home espresso enthusiast.
Jim Seven - 2006 UK Barista Champion James Hoffman’s blog details his thoughts on coffee.
Kona Farmgirl - Suzanne Shriner, owner of Lions Gate Farms in Honaunau, keeps this blog to talk about the experience of running a coffee farm.
Portafilter.net - A blog featuring coffee news, podcasts and more, with posts from a panel of coffee industry people including Murky Coffee’s Nick Cho and Intelligentsia Coffee’s Matt Riddle.
Roasters Guild Forum - Roasters can discuss the roasting in either a public board or a members board.
Specialty Coffee Retailer forum - Membership is required for this forum affiliated with Specialty Coffee Retailer..
T Ching - This new blog aims to inspire people and educate them about tea, particularly its health benefits.
Tea Chat - Adagio Teas’ forum, billed as a place for “banter and wisdom.”
Viva Barista - Billing itself as “The Barista’s Underground Resource,” this site features news updates, a blog and coffee industry job postings.
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February 12, 2008 at 3:45 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized, coffee, austin, espresso, cafe, meetups, movies, barista, chocolate, blog, music
Join us this FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH for Happy Hour from 5 to 7pm as we welcome back live music to Jo’s Downtown out on our magnificent patio along 2nd Street! We’ll be featuring 1/2 price wines and drafts, tasty appetizers, and the soulful tidings of Austin’s own…Mr. Reid Wilson and His So-Called Friends. See you then!
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May 10, 2007 at 10:00 am
· Filed under coffee, austin, texas, soco, southcongress, espresso, cafe, meetups, barista, blog, music, sanjosehotel, livemusic, hotelsanjose
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February 23, 2007 at 9:14 am
· Filed under coffee, austin, texas, soco, southcongress, espresso, cafe, barista, chocolate, roaster, tea, blog, music, sanjosehotel, library
Its Friday morning at Jos and there are a couple of dozen folks enjoying the chill air. Tom, with the green bandana, is sweeping up aound the place and extolling the virtues of the new espresso machine, the La Marzocco. Well have the scoop on this in an upcoming blog episode. Its a nice view from the Jos front deck of Amys Ice Cream, Zen restaurant, and the Hotel San Jose. Tom cranks up the ipod and the music resumes.
We found 63 photos on flickr matching the search phrase Jos Coffee. The picture below is one of them. Add your Jos photos to flickr!
Jos has a MySpace page at myspace.com/joshotcoffee and soon there will be a guide to MySpace on Jos blog. What would you like to see on Jos blog, send us an article or post something in our comments.
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February 22, 2007 at 9:29 am
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Austin American Statesman writer Shermakaye Bass has written up a “day in the life” of Jo’s South called:
Quotes from Shermakaye’s XL piece:
“Shermakaye Bass scopes out the social landscape at Jo’s on South Congress for a glimpse of the famous and soon-to-be famous. MORE”
“Any given day is a funky parade at Jo’s Hot Coffee on South Congress Avenue. Its location at the foot of the “SoCo strip” and its layout — open shed seating, walkup-window, tables — make Jo’s perfect for marathon people watching.
It’s one of those places where, throughout the day, life’s rich pageant unfurls, jogging past in sweats, ambling up with dogs, strolling through with babies, buzzing by on scooters, dashing up and away in suits. Musicians and filmmakers chat with geeks and fashionistas; well-heeled tourists sidle up to local characters. Stars of the big and small screen (hello, “Friday Night Lights”) hang out — and sometimes try to hide — here. “
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February 19, 2007 at 12:43 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized, coffee, austin, soco, southcongress, espresso, barista, blog, slides, slideshow, webshow, web2.0
Jo’s Coffee Slide show is a self running application which will give you a tour of the some of the best coffee blogs and coffee sites on the net. When you go to the site, click “run slideshow” and it will start running. Relax and enjoy, it might help to have a good cup of Jo’s coffee handy and a little bit of time on your hands. There are about 200 some odd web sites on the web based slide show.
These slides are drawn from our Jo’s Coffee Del.icio.us bookmarks which you see on our left sidebar. Jo’s del.icio.us site is http://del.icio.us/joscoffee
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February 17, 2007 at 4:30 pm
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February 9, 2007 at 2:02 pm
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The Birth of Coffee – presentation and book singing to benefit Friends of the Austin Public Library
Date and Time: Wednesday February 21 – 7 PM
Location: 800 Guadalupe – Austin Public Library- Austin History Center
Seating is limited so please call 974-7400
For more information on our project please see www.birthofcoffee.com
Thanks
Daniel Lorenzetti & Linda Rice Lorenzetti
The Birth Of Coffee Project
www.birthofcoffee.com
lorenzetti@birthofcoffee.com
512 585-0011
The Birth of Coffee is a multiplatform, media project consisting of a book, an international photographic exhibition tour and a complementary web site. The goal of the project is to extend the individual’s personal coffee experiences, providing them with an understanding of the many people, places and processes involved in bringing coffee to the table.
To complete this project, the author and photographer traveled a quarter of a million miles to five continents and eight countries documenting and recording the world’s coffee cultures. They followed the coffee cycle from a single seed at planting, to harvest, processing, shipping and the final cup.
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The Birth of Coffee is a special project of The Image Expedition, a documentary photography organization that produces “visual artifacts” for the next generation.
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February 8, 2007 at 3:30 pm
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Lisa and Tom take us on a video podcast walk through of Jo’s Coffee South.
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and there’s an audio only podcast.
Tom, Jo’s Assistant Manager and fixit guy, shows us the equipment and processes that keep Jo’s running. He talks about the history of the place and gives us a tour around the outside on South Congress in Austin.
Lisa demos one of her favorite drinks. We also encounter Fritz, the Motorblade poster guy and one of the regulars who talks about the NASA astronaut space love triangle. It’s a fascinating look at the inner workings of South Congress epicenter of activity.
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February 6, 2007 at 8:07 am
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Disclaimer added after making the video: Rose now knows the difference between Portofino (a small fishing village in Italy located in the province of Genoa on the Italion Riviera) and a portafilter (the handle and basket thingy on an espresso machine that holds the ground espresso for extraction.)
Rose of Jo’s Coffee South, Austin, TX shows us how the pros make a mocha. It’s on an early Tuesday morning in Austin and it’s just before the big crowd shows up at Jo’s.
Makin’ Mocha – the Ipod Version
Makin’ Mocha with Rose – for Windows Media player
A Café Mocha is a variant of a cafe latte. It is simply a chocolate latte. Like a latte it is typically one third espresso and two thirds steamed milk, but a shot of chocolate is added. Typically the chocolate is in the form of an Italian syrup, although less sophisticated vending systems use instant chocolate powder. Whipped cream, dustings of cocoa and marshmallows may also be added on top for flavour and decoration.
This being an American invention, it is mostly unknown in Italy and other continental European countries. Mocha was originally a particular variety of coffee from Mocha, Yemen, made without cocoa, but which tasted as if it had cocoa in it, and modern usage usually refers to an imitation of it using other coffee varieties and cocoa.
A variant is white café mocha, instead made with a shot of white chocolate.
A term moccaccino is used in some regions of Europe and the Middle East to describe cappuccino with cocoa or chocolate.
pictured above – actual cup of mocha made at Jo’s South.
Photo by Tom Page.
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It was 38 degrees at the 7:00 A.M. start with a small wind. There were about 20 people at our informal watch party. The sun was just starting to rise. Jos is at the one mile mark. Looking down Congress we could barely see the crowd getting ready. It was really quiet here until The fireworks. Next came the starting gun and about 7 minutes later the lead pack ran by.
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Then the bulk of marathon with runners, joggers, walkers, even a guy jumping rope,
and finally the following cars
and clean up crews. The entire marathon had passed by in about 30 minutes. After that a strange calm fell on Congress Ave. We all went back to enjoying our fancy coffee drinks while 1000s of marathoners ran for the next 25 hours. Congratulations to all of you.