Check out this months issue of Food and Wine where some of the finest coffee bars in the country are listed. Among the top ten are a number of our friends and compatriots some of whom serve Counter Culture Coffee (Abraco and Three Cups). Congrats to these amazing coffee bars!
Mauritania
Posted August 27, 2008 by spressoCategories: 1
It is our honor and privilege to announce that a coffee to which we are deeply and passionately connected will be soon appearing as a regular member of our rotation. New crop Finca Mauritania has finally arrived and we’re nothing short of thrilled. This coffee comes from a farm that sits high above the town of Santa Ana in El Salvador. It is a beautiful Eden like place planted with well tended and healthy coffee plants nestled beneath tall trees that provide both shade and wind protection. Spruce Street Espresso owner, Betty Ortiz, had the opportunity last month of going to this farm and spent some time with it’s owner, Aida Batlle. Aida is one of the great women in coffee and is well known throughout the international specialty coffee scene. She has been a long time partner of Counter Culture Coffee ever since she won the first Cup of Excellence competition in El Salvador in 2003 with not just one, but two of her coffees placing in the winners circle at 1st and 16th. Her coffee is a extraordinary. It explodes with an intense sweetness of caramel, brown sugar and apple. This is a fact in part due to the Bourbon varietal planted at Mauritania, but is also in large part due to Aida’s zealotry in picking only the ripest red-est coffee fruit and processing it cleanly and carefully. We are also proud to report that after many years of hard work and persistence this coffee is finally coming to you Certified Organic! This year, as with last year, Aida has provided us with her coffee three ways, Washed (traditional), Semi-Washed and Pasa (natural). We are excited to try it all three ways at this Friday’s cupping and we look forward to being able to serve at least one of these coffees with you soon. We’re sure that you will be nothing short of thrilled as well.
This is the traditional version of Mauritania.
One of Aida's many experiments
Essential a natural process coffee from El Salvador
More Press for coffee…
Posted August 27, 2008 by spressoCategories: 1
Just found this link to a recent story on some espresso basics from NYC’s 9th Street Espresso. Check it out! Maybe this can help those of you who would like a bit more insight on what everything is on our menu…
Cupping on CBS 3 Philadelphia
Posted August 27, 2008 by spressoCategories: 1
A little story ran last week on cupping on CBS 3 Philadelphia. They attended a cupping event at Spruce Street Espresso’s roaster, Counter Culture Coffee in Durham, NC. Watch the story here. We wanted to remind everyone that you can participate in a cupping right here in Philadelphia every Friday at 1pm at Spruce Street Espresso. The events are free and open to the public. Please email sprucestreetespresso@gmail.com if you would like to attend. See you at the cupping table!
Esmeralda is in!
Posted July 23, 2008 by spressoCategories: 1
We will be cupping at Spruce Street Espresso this Friday at 1:00pm. On the table will be a certain famous coffee. Come join us on Friday to see what all the fuss is about.
coffee article in the Washington Post
Posted July 23, 2008 by spressoCategories: 1
A little article popped up in the Washington Post today featuring a number of Spruce Street Espresso’s friends, as well as our roaster, Counter Culture Coffee. Check it out.
more good press for Direct Trade
Posted July 8, 2008 by spressoCategories: 1
Counter Culture Coffee’s Direct Trade program is given a nod from sustainability website “Coffee and Conservation”
NPR talks with Peter Giuliano and Kim Bullock talks with us…
Posted July 2, 2008 by spressoCategories: 1
Last Saturday Peter Giuliano, the coffee buyer from Counter Culture Coffee (our roaster), spoke with the Splendid Table’s Lynn Rossetto Casper about iced coffee and his favorite method for doing this, the Japanese iced coffee method. Good thing for you this is also the way we do our iced coffee! You might even find that we are brewing a Yirgacheffee when you come in. It’s Peter’s “fave”. Check out the talk here. The coffee talk begins around minute 43. Enjoy!
We also had the pleasure of attending a sustainability event at Mugshots on Fairmont here in Philly on Monday night. Kim Bullock from Counter Culture spoke along with two representatives from Equal Exchange about the importance of developing strong coffee producer relationships and about the great movement happening in our sector of the coffee world toward a more sustainable model for quality of life, quality of coffee and transparency. Spruce Street Espresso was in full attendance and the enthusiasm from everyone there was impressive. Good things are happening in the Philadelphia coffee world. Photos will be forthcoming…
WBC Copenhagen 2008
Posted June 18, 2008 by spressoCategories: 1
It is time. Tune in for live coverage of the World Barista Championship here.
Duviel Coca – La Golondrina Micro Lot
Posted June 18, 2008 by spressoCategories: 1
It is our pleasure to be able to offer to the Philadelphia area one of the finest coffees of the year out of Colombia. A few years ago our roaster, Counter Culture Coffee, began a project called La Golondrina (the swallow) in Colombia that was dedicated to sourcing, and rewarding handsomely, some of the highest quality coffee from the Cauca region of Colombia. This coffee is a perfect representative of all that this special work has achieved. You will find it to be a deliciously sweet and clean coffee with notes of caramel, honey, grape, and strawberry. We are extremely proud to be able to offer this exceptional coffee to you and hope that you will enjoy it as much as we are!
Take it home for $12/12oz.
Read more here.
