All posts tagged "Rocky"
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1.5KUncategorizedThe View – 30 Years in Business
The Tortoise vs. The Hare [note color=”#FFCC00″]Letter to the Editor Hi Kerri, Just finished reading Coffee Talk front to back and...
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1.2K2014Roasters Rock
When you wake up in the morning, you are faced with choices, influences, and responsibilities. For many, the sorting out of these...
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1.6K2014
Roasters Rock
In the SCAA/CQI cupping protocol there is an attribute that is perhaps undervalued and overlooked. What is interesting is that in life...
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1.0K2013Making Sustainability Sustainable Along With Many Other Words
When writing about the State of the Industry in our wonderful coffee world, there are a number of words that can be...
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1.0K2013How to Reconcile 3rd Wave Coffee and Pumpkin Spice Lattes
A Snob, as defined in Free Dictionary: (snb) 1. One who tends to patronize, rebuff, or ignore people regarded as social inferiors...
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9582013
There Are Not So Many Bad Guys in the Supply Chain
There are not so many bad guys in the supply chain; just a bad process.How many times have you heard someone, well...
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1.1K2013
What Exactly do You do Here?
Fresh eyes on a problem is always going to net some interesting feedback. If the new eyes understand what they are looking...
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9492013
Game Changers
The coffee industry, in many ways, is the same now as when it first became an industry. Coffee is grown, exported, imported,...
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1.2K2013
Coffee Education – Is the Certificate important?
Back in the day… (This is what old timers say when about to make a comparison to current changes in something) education...
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8812013
Sorrow. Anger. Inspiration.
If you are a regular reader of CoffeeTalk, you will know that I get a pretty free reign to write about a...
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9312013
Imagine a Coffee Industry Without Women
Before you start typing the angry emails, the premise is only used to prove the power and importance of women in this...
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8662013At Origin it Takes a Village…
When thinking about coffee at origin, we think in terms of flavor profiles, processing methods and price. But coffee at origin is...
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1.1K2013
What’s Your Legacy in Coffee Going to Be?
One of the early adopters of the idea to view “Specialty Coffee” as a separate segment of the coffee industry was Ted...
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1.1K2012My Shop Is Circling the Drain! What Do I Do?
As a consultant in a down economy, I get several questions about how to ‘save’ businesses that are feeling the squeeze. These...
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1.1K2012Roasting in Korea – Stepping up to the quality challenge
Walking down the streets of Seoul, Bussan, and other cities in Korea, one is amazed at the number of coffee shops. On...
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9802012
No Good Deed Should Go Un-Published
If doing ‘good’ is good, then telling people must be good too right? – It is if you do it right. There...