Super Secret BGA Members Only Event during SERBC.

Are you a BGA member coming to the Southeast? Then you are invited to a super secret members only event at Octane Coffee Saturday night. What will take place? Well, it's secret, but suffice to say, you don't wanna miss it. There will be a chance to raise some money for the relief efforts in Haiti, so bring at least $5, more if you can. There will be food and drink. There will be, well, that's all I can say at this time. So, plan to be there. Not a BGA member yet, consider this reason #1,987 to join today.
The evite invite is here: http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?inviteId=OVOKEALZZOOGMRJEIDZG

"All About Coffee" by W. Ukers - Download This Gem Now!

Everyone who loves coffee should follow this link. "All About Coffee" is a fantastic coffee book written by William Ukers, and Google has recently digitized it.
Download it now! Or just view it online - click here


Recent searches on half.com and ebay, have shown that this book is hard to find for prices less than $150.00. Inside, you'll find endless beautiful illustrations of all things coffee, as well as classic listings (all the hands/steps a coffee bean gets exchanged while making it's way from seed to cup) and a heartfelt thesaurus for all the ways coffee has lovingly been paraphrased.

thanks @mike_white!

TNT lands in the fly-over states

St. Louis is starting to glow with coffee excitement. We're hosting our debut TNT on February 11. Join the event on Facebook.

THURSDAY NIGHT THROWDOWN - NYC - RETURNS!

Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 9:00pm
Joe
141 Waverly PL
New York, NY

NERBC Competitors Meeting TONIGHT!

There's a last minute competitors meeting hosted by New Harvest Coffee and Blue State Coffee at the New Harvest Training Facility in Pawtucket, RI tonight!

6 pm
New Harvest Coffee Roasters
1005 Main Street Suite #704
Pawtucket, RI



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Quick cleaning tips - make it shine!

The cleanliness of one's portafilter somewhat serves as an example of how detail-oriented a barisa is. Think about keeping your equipment cleaner, longer. Above are three degrees of cleanliness. The middle picture shows best as an example of a quick, but lackluster cleaning.
Many may know the power of a clean portafilter comes from the green scrubby - but it might be surprising to know it works best unadulturated. I'd even go as far as to say the scrubby works worse, when wet. A fresh, dry scour pad does the best job and produces the brightest shine, in the quickest amount of time. Cut your scour pads up into one inch squares for maximum effectiveness. Bringing a portafilter to shine as does the portafilter on the far left, should take no more than 60 seconds assuming you've scrubbed within the last 12 hours. Fight the nasty, let it shine!

Boulder Spro-Ha!

Sunday, December 6th Ozo Coffee Company will be hosting an espresso-o-rama. 6 Synesso groups, 6 grinders (or bring your own), and your coffee. The party starts at 4pm at 5340 Arapahoe Ave. $0 admission fee includes Avery beer!

Also during the party will be the Mountain Region's yearly BGA meeting to talk about what is going on with the BGA and what is on tap for next year.

Any questions please ask Justin Hartman of Ozo (303.440.0233), Nolan Dutton (513.255.7918) or me!