Ever since we started carrying coffee syphons, aka vacuum coffee makers, in our shop, we have been asked what the heck it is roughly 4-6 times per day. Some joke that it resembles drug paraphernalia, but I wouldn’t know because I’m not into that sort of thing. (As an aside, please do not make stupid [...]
Not to be confused with a kids menu… ladies and gents here are your coffees and teas. The El Salvador coffee from the Los Inmortales project is here. We’ll be dialing it in tomorrow morning. By the way, Intelli’s roast of the Esmeralda was voted one of the world’s best coffees by Saveur Magazine. I [...]
This time last year we offered the infamous $22 cup of coffee. We took some flack for charging such a high price, but the reality was at our cost of $198/lb we were only making about a dollar on each sale. We sold about 1% of the world’s supply of the highest quality lot of [...]
We’re asked all the time about coffee freshness-we’ve discussed freshness in prior posts but I wanted to say something about espresso. We get weekly deliveries of Black Cat Espresso from Intelligentsia. The coffee is roasted and ships out the same day. Chicago to Pittsburgh is only a two-day trip via UPS Ground. The coffee is [...]
A big announcement today. REEEEEAAAAL BIG. SO BIG I USED BOLDED CAPS AND PUT A TEASER IN THE POST TITLE. Customers ask us all the time when and where we’ll be opening our next shop. We’ve knowingly smiled and nodded at you for months as we labored away deep in the 21streetcoffee laboratory. It’s finally [...]
