http://blog.seattlecoffeeworks.com/blog Coffee, Coffee, Coffee Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:59:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It’s snowing (again) and time to lay 2008 to rest.   After an incredibly busy holiday season, we are reflecting on all the many changes and events this year. It’s been a year of change, and maybe, maybe we’ve finally found our starting point for the journey to come. Here are a few ... http://blog.seattlecoffeeworks.com/blog/2008/12/25/happy-new-year/ Many Seattleites have been enraptured by the hope and change sparked by the recent elections. At Seattle Coffee Works, we've also dabbled in creating positive change. Last month we introduced our new Obama bend, which is so popular we can't seem to keep on our shelves. We've also focused on ... http://blog.seattlecoffeeworks.com/blog/2008/12/04/change-is-brewing/ A new friend of ours, John Reinke who incidentally was the highest bidder for a coffee card at the recent Earthcorps auction, wrote to us about the possibility of an Obama blend – a blend of Indonesian and Kenyan coffees based on Barack Obama’s truly multi-cultural background. While we are ... http://blog.seattlecoffeeworks.com/blog/2008/11/16/the-obama-miracle/ Jennifer Cabala of Q13 Fox News swung by yesterday to geek out with us about coffee tasting. We took in press pot, espresso, and real-deal cupping samples. We had a great time, and we believe we were able to sufficiently caffeinate the Q13 team. Read more about it on the Q13 ... http://blog.seattlecoffeeworks.com/blog/2008/11/11/seattle-coffee-works-on-q13/ All of us here at Seattle Coffee Works are such coffee fanatics that we find ourselves talking about coffee almost in terms of an alternate reality. When we named our Guatemala-East Timor blend Chocolate Truffle we didn’t take into account that to everyone else this sounds like a flavored coffee. To us ... http://blog.seattlecoffeeworks.com/blog/2008/10/22/a-dizzying-array-of-new-coffees-or-a-roastery-update/ One month ago, Hurricane Ike slammed into the Gulf Coast with 110-mile per hour winds shredding homes in Houston, Galveston and along the Bolivar Peninsula. One month ago residents of the nation’s fourth largest city were displaced as a 20-foot wall of water inundated the coastal port. More then fifty ... http://blog.seattlecoffeeworks.com/blog/2008/10/14/coffee-with-a-conscience/ Please vote for us for Best Coffeeshop in Western Washington -- please click here. http://blog.seattlecoffeeworks.com/blog/2008/10/04/your-vote-of-confidence-please/ Ok, I'll admit it. We were really excited that our Space Needle was named the winning blend of the 2008 Seattle Coffee Works Taste Off. But we’re equally excited to announce the winner of the Taste Off Sweepstakes. Yoon Lee of Seattle will be taking home a year’s supply of our ... http://blog.seattlecoffeeworks.com/blog/2008/09/29/taste-off-sweepstakes-winner/ First: a HUGE thank you to everyone who tasted coffee at our Taste Off event this past month! We had so much fun sharing our coffee and listening to your opinions on the best coffee in town. We're really excited to announce the favorite blend and the lucky winner of ... http://blog.seattlecoffeeworks.com/blog/2008/09/23/a-success-story/ We're starting our third blog site here -- and are simply going to abandon the contents of our previous blog sites. Those contents are sitting somewhere in cyberspace waiting to be unearthed by a fifth millennium historian from Mars looking for evidence that, yes, some people back several thousand years ... http://blog.seattlecoffeeworks.com/blog/2008/07/22/where-to-begin/