We were delighted when our friend, Chelsea Kallman, a Nashville based writer/photographer for Barista Magazine recently visited and blogged about her experience. She hang out with us while we cupped three different coffees and discussed our foray into roasting. Here’s what she had to say…
This year’s holiday event once again will focus on serving the Nashville homeless community with 20 percent of proceeds from the event going to Safe Haven and People Loving Nashville. Last year, the event raised more than $2,000 for the local organizations.
Every year for the past 27 years, coffee geeks and industry professionals have gotten together in some lucky city for what’s called “The Event”. It’s a magical place full of some of the best coffees in the world, the coolest new ways to make them and make them better, and the most talented, coffee obsessed people in the country.
The CREMA \\ Beve Brew Methods classes are an ongoing series of classes designed to help you achieve great coffee at home. We’ll cut through the confusion and provide you with the tools and the know-how to replicate what we’re doing in the shop. You’ll be surprised at how easy it is! View class schedule and register now.
We are pleased to announce our partnership with Beve, an innovative Nashville based coffee catering, education and training company. The goal of this partnership is to advance coffee knowledge, the coffee experience to culinary art and enhance access to exceptional coffee and brewing. Click “Read” below to view the press release to learn more.
UDPATE: The 3rd Annual CREMA Christmas, Dec 12th, raised $2,000 for Safe Haven and People Loving Nashville! Thank you!
This year’s holiday event once again will focus on serving the Nashville homeless community with coffee proceeds from the event going to Safe Haven and People Loving Nashville.
For the 2010 CREMA Christmas, local artisans have made homemade accessories (hats, scarves, gloves), and these items will be available for purchase for a homeless individual this holiday season. Those that purchase a homemade item will be able to write a message to the homeless individual that will receive the gift. There will also be other “art” items available for sale: paintings, photos, jewelry and other handmade goods by local artists with proceeds going to each of these organizations.
In 2008-09, CREMA raised and/or donated nearly $3,000 to Safe Haven, the Contributor and other local charities. When the Nashville homeless community was displaced by the Nashville flood, the CREMA community quickly collected over three truckloads of supplies for immediate use by those displaced at tent city. Thank you for joining with us to make this a wonderful holiday season for the Nashville homeless.
About Safe Haven:
Safe Haven provides shelter and transitional services that empower Middle Tennessee homeless families with children to achieve lasting self-sufficiency. This is the only homeless shelter that takes in whole families in the area. For more information, http://www.safehaven.org.
About People Loving Nashville:
In 2008, a group of five gathered to provide a small Thanksgiving meal to those residing on the streets of downtown Nashville. Impacted greatly by this one night, they decided to provide a weekly meal for the homeless & less fortunate in downtown. Now, coming together every Monday night to prepare, serve and give a meal, People Loving Nashville has become a movement among twenty-somethings and beyond in Nashville. The most important goal is to provide love, simple, genuine love to those that feel they have been forgotten. They are simply “People Loving Nashville.” For more information, http://peoplelovingnashville.com.
Grapefruit. Lemon. Blueberries. Chocolate. Oak. Pepper. Smoke. Bright. Crisp. Muddy. Syrupy. These are just a few words that may come to mind when you take a sip of a cup of coffee from your local coffee shop. Hopefully you’ll understand a little more about that cup of coffee after you read this blog post!
The man behind many of those hand-screened and printed posters from your favorite bands is the unassuming letter press artist Ryan Nole. Otherwise known as Kangaroo Press, or “Honey Bear” …a story for another day. For now, stop in to purchase an original hand made poster for your pad before they are gone,
Have you ever noticed how much effort it takes for a skilled barista to produce your expertly crafted latte or espresso? Even your drip coffee requires careful laboring, albeit somewhat minimal. Well, it may be surprising to know that your brew requires much more labor and human effort before it even reaches the roaster, let alone the grinder or coffee brewer!
We’ve been searching for a good burr grinder for quite a while. Finally we came across this grinder several months ago, but it was out of stock almost everywhere! It was well worth the wait, isn’t it so cute? The Hario Skerton hand grinder has ceramic conical burrs that can be adjusted according to the type of brew method you are using.