Thanks to the pack of emerging cuppers that showed up tonight at the shop.  The mission was to explore coffee triangulation.  Great crowd & good first-time technique.  

Congratulations to Chris Elane for getting the highest score!  7 out of 8 is pretty good, especially for your first go.  Cheers to you and your medical pursuits.  

The rest of you, great slurping and discerning.  See you again soon.  

Some fine coffee communing was had this weekend.  I think it still continues as I type, in some back yard of a home in Troostwood, but that’s someone else’s blog post.  

The jam at the Parisi plant was a lot of fun last night.  There were some fine feats witnessed, including blindfolded drink preparation.  Nice work to the blind pourers.  Great jazz, great vibe in a curious environment.  I believe $500 was raised for Joplin relief.  Nice work y’all.

Tonight, the RovenGrein Iron Maiden Voyage Country Experience happened at the LAB/About the Coffee’s Jam Jam today.  John Greiner on acoustic & vocals, Tyler Rovenstine on Telecaster & Sh*t kickin’, Wes Crawford on pedal steel, Mike Schroeder on drums, and grk on bass made up the opening act.  More fun, music & coffee was had by all I am certain.  Thanks to those folks for setting it up.  Excited about the open forum for dialogue & coffee experience happening in our MO community.  Here’s to more.

Cheers~

Since we were on the subject of our Midtown-ish domestic coffee delivery, we must make mention of something.  We have restructured things a bit, to include a weekly-rotating offering of fine coffee TBD by what fancies us that particular Friday afternoon.  The price now reflects those of our shop as well.  Thanks for the love, and for being the long-time customer you have been.  We like saving you time & gasoline.  

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Introducing our new, spring/summer, seasonal espresso offering: Streetcar Espresso. This espresso is named after the heritage of our retail space, which was once a streetcar maintenance station, as well as the hope for the future of a more community-oriented people moving culture in KC.  

This shot starts with a brown sugar aroma. Creamy body gives way to a burst of grapefruit citrus that lingers to a meaty, savory finish. 

Come on by, and give it a shot!  It may change your life for the better.  

Mast Brothers chocolate bars are back!  Perhaps just in time for Mother’s Day.  Oh yeah, dudes, it’s Mother’s Day this Sunday.  Write that down.  You can thank us later.  

Sooo, there’s a great little shop opening up on the West Side.  It’s run by LIndsay Laricks, whom you may know from pop-up absolute refreshment & flavor trailer that is Fresher than Fresh Snow Cones.  She & her crew are in the final stages of creating something beautiful.  That’s all we will say for now.  We had a great cupping today with the Little Freshie crew.   We think they are going to do great things in furthering the mission of quality beverage preparation, coffee & otherwise, in our city.  Stay tuned for more, from Little Freshie.

This Wednesday, at About the Coffee Tyler will be doing his thing, and likely shaking his thang at 3185 Terrace, KCMO.  About the Coffee is featuring talent by various coffee folks around the city, and the world, for that matter.  From 5-9ish, Tyler will be pouring coffee & pulling shots of espresso.  

If you love coffee, & haven’t been to About the Coffee, it’s a great resource to the coffee consuming and preparing community of KC.  Say hi to them nice folks.  

We’ve got some new men that have started hanging about at the shop.  These guys are tall & lanky, with some fine facial hair.  Our friend, Ali Bustos is a lovely & talented woman that lives here in Midtown, KC.  She’s married to a tall & lanky man, with some fine facial hair. Check his gig out here.  

We asked Ali if we could get a few of her men on display, and perhaps get them into your hand that is not holding a beautiful cup of coffee. There are five available, and they are pictured here.  They are available for $50 a dude.  She does custom work as well, when possible.  She’s a busy lady.  

So, nice work, Ali.  We are proud to show some of your work while they stick around. 

This is one of our favorite events of the summer.  The gemmy people & product that hail from Ft. Collins bring some of their love to KCMO.  It’s a night to sample all the Lips of Faith beers and more.  Bike culture, freaks on blankets, films-hopefully devoted to the culture of beer, bikes & celebration of -life will be shown at dark.  

Can’t wait. But must. Here’s to you, New Belgium…

Photo Credit: Chris Mullins

Well, thank you The Pitch!  Pretty fun honor it is, to be one of the four Artopia winners for 2012.  We are excited about the future of our neighborhood (“chrysalis stretch of Main St.” - well put, David Hudnall) & our city.  Oh yeah, and we’re excited about coffee…

Thanks to all you current & future quality coffee zealots, for letting us be part of your coffee lives.  We shall press on in the name of quality, art & service.

Saturday night, there’s an party at screenland in honor of this here Artopia. Looks like a good time.  Food, drink, music, fashion, film and more.  Come out if you like any of those fore-mentioned things. Tickets $25 online

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