Work that coffee baby! Work it!

There is a new coffee house in downtown Seattle on Pike St. near the Pike Place Market. Their Grand re-opening was this last Monday. I went down their with my cheapo camera and hung out and took a few pictures. Their thing is that they have ten different roasters Seattle area who's espresso blends they are using. They have twelve different grinders. The name of the place is Seattle Coffee Works. When you go in you can order what they call The Works it is three espresso's from three different Seattle area roasters. They also have the Coffee Drinking Man out front.

The Coffee Drinking Man will eventually have a battery powered motor attached so that it will move automatically but, for now he needs to be hand cranked. The guy next to The Coffee Drinking Man is Sebastian the owner of SCW he is a crazy German with a mad scientist look in is eyes who you can't help but like.
The next time you are visiting the market stop by Seattle Coffee Works and ask for a shot of Espresso Gitano or Espresso Cremona. They are using Borogove coffee among other coffees.
Sebastian I hope you do well and you have all my support.

Borogove Coffee

Many people have been asking me lately what is this Borogove and what is up with Hotwire. Well Borogove Coffee is my roasting company that I am in parternship with Tim McCormack. It is still pretty much a start up and we are now looking for potential wholesale accounts. I am still a part of Hotwire I am mostly doing the training for the two stores. Yes, our Shoreline location was sold. It is at the moment still a Hotwire and they are using Borogove coffee and I am doing all their coffee training. My main focus right now is on growing Borogove. The name borogove comes from the Lewis Carol nonsense poem Jabberwocky:

"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Our web site is www.borogovecoffee.com The web site is still rough but, feel free to check it out.

So, What?

All right I know it's been awhile. I've been busy OK. I do have a life. Well sort of. I have a knew camera. Just a cheapo I bought so I could take with me on a family visit last month but, better then nothing. I can at least post pictures on my flickr site which I do update regularly. I just got back from Long Beach for the SCAA (Specialty Coffee Association of America and the USBC (United States Barista Championships). I did compete and I sucked it up pretty bad. It is kinda a surreal experience to have spent a good number of hours training and getting ready and then almost at the out set of your competition to mess up bad enough where you know that you will not advance to the next round. Well that's what happened to me but, I will practice even harder and I will be ready for the NW regional competition that will be held here in Seattle at the end of October or early November. Other then sucking it up at the competition I had a great time in Long Beach. I got to see allot of my coffee family. Jeremy made a surprise appearance down (Jeremy used to work with me at Hotwire and didn't think he could come) thanks to his girlfriend. I participated in the latte art smack down and got smacked down. ha ha. That was funny.