Blue Bottle Coffee Dripper
This has got to be some real bullshit, right? Blue Bottle teamed up with some MIT scientists to create a better coffee dripper (their words, not mine). But we all know this is just their way of making more money on top of the insane $25 price of this dripper by selling proprietary Blue Bottle coffee filters for $5 (and you only get 30 filters).
Let's compare that with a ceramic V60 for $20 and a pack of 100 filters for $6. The choice should be easy here.
Blue Bottle Bryant Park
I honestly had no idea that Blue Bottle had a location at Bryant Park. It's at the bottom of a giant and gorgeous looking WeWork building.
Blue Bottle to start selling cold brew in aluminum cans
This is pretty cool. Beginning later this month, Blue Bottle will sell their cold brew in 8 oz aluminum cans. This is the company's 2nd packaged offering after their highly successful (and delicious!) New Orleans Iced Coffee. And if you don't have a Blue Bottle near you, starting April, the 8 oz cans will also be available in Whole Foods.
Currently brewing: Blue Bottle Honduras Santa Elena Mayor Victor Ventura
Whew! What a long name for a coffee! But this one tastes so good!
How Los Angeles is pushing the American coffee community to excellence
One look at the coffee landscape in the US and one will notice very quickly that some of the best cafes and coffee roasters are coming out of Los Angeles. The 3rd-wave coffee revival has always sort of come from Seattle and Portland, but lately, LA has been really killing it with good coffee. No, great coffee! Some of my favorite coffee ever roasted comes from LA and some of my most memorable times in LA have happened inside cafes (both current and now gone -- I'm thinking of you Handsome Coffee!).
VICE's Munchies series explores this revival of American coffee culture with a close look at the production of coffee in Los Angeles. They visit Good Land Organics' farm to see how berries are grown, picked, and chosen for the best coffee flavor. Then they head on over to Intelligentsia's LA offices where you get a first-hand look at the discovery of the Geisha varietal and its overwhelming praise by the coffee community. And finally, you get a look at some of the best cafe's in LA -- Copa Vida, Portola Coffee Lab, and Portola Coffee Lab's experimental Theorem coffee bar.
Special appearance by a familiar face -- Michael Phillips formerly of Handsome Coffee Roasters, and now working for Blue Bottle.