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The Las Lajas Project at Case Study Coffee

Written by Christine Herman Top to bottom: Yellow Honey, Red Honey, Black Honey, and Perla Negra coffees from Las Lajas, Costa Rica. I am so excited that this week marks the beginning of the Las Lajas Project at Case Study Coffee.  We've featured one coffee from Las Lajas in the shops before; but it wasn't until I went to Costa Rica to meet Francisca and Oscar Chacon that I was able to bring their large line-up of coffees to the shops for a side-by-side comparison.  You see, what makes these coffees so special, besides the Chacon family's meticulous organic practices, is the emphasis they are placing on how subtle differences in drying their milled coffee has a huge impact on the...

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On Barista Competitions

Written by Dylan McClain This year I finally took the leap into barista competitions by taking part in the Regional Qualifying Event in Kansas City.  A lot of people have asked me what it was like.  It’s hard to describe.  If you’ve competed before, you know--making coffee on stage is different.  When you know that a team of professionals is evaluating your every move and every word, things that you do every day suddenly become heavy and difficult.  Stage nerves are real.  It’s harder to talk, harder to smile, harder to remember what you were supposed to do and say.  It’s an ocean of details, and you are trying to look graceful as you surf on massive waves of adrenaline. ...

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2015: A Year In Review

Written by Rachel Emery The lights have all been taken down, the ornaments put back in their boxes, we’ve sold out of eggnog and school is back in session. The Holidays have come to an end, and with them we have said goodbye to 2015, and what a year it was! We've got some great memories to share with you. We started off the year with our first coffee focused event at our Alberta Shop: Fruit to Seed, highlighting the produce of coffee. We served three variations of the same coffee to focus on how processing at origin can bring out different flavors in the brewed cup. (Read more Here). In March, we invited the coffee community to our Alberta...

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One Year on Alberta Street

Written by Christine Herman Can you believe it has already been over a year since we opened the doors to our Alberta location? And what a year it's been! It was quite an adventure doing the build out of the store ourselves and once the doors opened, the adventure has continued on. We decided that the best way to recap the year would be through the eyes of the two employees that have shared the management of the shop over the course of the year, Rachel and Dylan.  What is one of your fondest memories of helping get the doors open? Rachel: There are so many little things: learning the art of grouting tiles, installing cove base, landscaping the front area,...

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Introducing: Synesso MVP Hydra

Written by Josh French Earlier this year our management team was given the opportunity to attend the World Barista Championship (WBC) event in Seattle, WA. We tasted coffee, schmoozed with other coffee professionals, tasted coffee, played with cool new coffee gadgets, explored Seattle, tasted coffee… you get the idea. Despite the plethora of cool new coffee gadgets, our chance to serve our espresso using Synesso’s new MVP technology at the trade show was by far the coolest experience we found all weekend.   Luckily, after having so much fun using their new machine, Synesso offered to send us the first U.S. model as soon as it was ready for prime time. That time has come. Our brand-new, one-of-a-kind, shiny, glorious...

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