(photo by these guys)
Daniel Mulu took the train up from Baltimore (where he is visiting family before his return to Addis Ababa). We missed Andrew Barnett's Brazilian coffee event at Grumpy, which was a major bummer. Daniel got off the train in Jersey instead of Penn Station. I predict I will not stop making fun of him until mid-2015 at the earliest.
But we did manage to make it our own coffee event in time, the next day. It was freaking great! We took the A-train out to Ozone Park where John Moore of Dallis Coffee set us up on their sweet two-barrel Probat sample roaster. We roasted up 12 delicious samples from the Ethiopia auction and then trained it back into town just in time to pick up some cupping supplies from Gimme! and head up to the BODUM headquarters.
Andrew Barnett came, and Oren from Oren's Daily Roast, Genevieve Kappler of international cupping fame (France, US, Ethiopia, Colombia), a delegation from the Ethiopian permanent mission at the UN. Plus Koji from Japan, Matija and Mare from Croatia, and assorted Mannahattoes and Breukleiners...
(thanks Koji, Anne and Neil for the photos... and Anne and Neil I swear I am getting a new camera and will stop stealing your pics).
THANK YOU BODUM.
THANK YOU EDIBLE MANHATTAN.
Much coffee was cupped. The space is beautiful. Afterward, much meat and beer with Anne and Neil and Andrew (what a terrible Buddhist I am), and I took Daniel to SoHo to see the pretty girls and the bright lights.
Perhaps some Cup of Excellence events there in the near future? Raise your hand if you like this idea...
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