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.
This is my bike, it used to be old and uncool. It was one stop from the bicycle graveyard. But now it’s like new!
Thanks Halcyon Bike Shop!
The first CREMA Christmas event raised over $800 for Safe Haven! That’s a big deal for a small shop. And we have many to thank – just a quick nod to all that made this possible, most importantly our talented artists, Sara-bellum (a.ka. the parking fair), Margie, and Rachael W., and least but not last YOU – it was you that made this a success with your purchases and donations.
We set an aggressive goal of $2,900, this amount underwrites the cost of a family becoming successful graduates of Safe Haven’s Mended Hearts program from start to finish. Working with our upcoming artists we will continue to donate until we reach it and we will continue to accept donations, in store or check by mail made out to Safe Haven, or you might even commission one of the artists and ask that a portion of the sale be donated – see our artist page for links to their bio and contact info – we’re sure they’d love it.
What did you think about this event? Leave us a comment.
Happy new year to all!
Rob Wilds of NPT’s program Tennessee Crossroads, profiles Drew Park, a Nashville coffee craftsman who is dedicated to brewing a better brew.
Tennessee Crossroads travels the highways and byways of Tennessee, highlighting the personalities, crafts, places, foods and events that make Tennessee special and its character unique.
Check out the video by clicking image to the left, and view episode 18.
The traveling master of coffee for the Ringling Bros. Circus stopped in! We’d been waiting for his visit for weeks, we just find him fascinating. Read more about Circus Coffee at www.circuscoffee.com.
We’ve added Mocha Brownies to the menu today, just thought you’d want to know, they are yummy!
If you missed the email, just in time for cold weather we’ve begun serving our Signature Mayan Hot Chocolate.
In partnership with Drew’s Brews, Nashville’s roaster extraordinaire, we showed up for the Willie Nelson concert ready to feed the caffeine frenzy. Not sure what to expect, we were surprised at our popularity! Our limited power supply and one drip brewer couldn’t keep up with the Willie crowd, but we learned quickly how to serve a large crowd and are ready to cater your next event.
The trailer is 50’s model that has been meticulously gutted and rebuilt with coffee and espresso stained wood, truly a labor of love by Drew and friends.
Thanks to Paul Rinkes at http://rinkesphotography.com for snapping this photo. Find a few of our own here, sorry none of Willie – we were too busy making coffee!
Also serving Willie was Mas Tacos, an idea so “simple, so obvious, so brilliant, so…diabolical!…that I’m kicking myself for not thinking of it first” as Jack referred to it on the Nashville Scene Bites blog. We couldn’t wait to try Teresa’s brilliant idea and were not disappointed.
A friend passed this along, a coffee grounds powered truck! Could we be the key to the renewable energy crisis?
Kristen Foster wrote a nice little story on my journey to creating CREMA over at the new hip chick magazine her nashville. Check it out: CREMA of the crop.
Speaking of hip folks, head over to the Nashvillest blog and check out what guest blogger Jon Arnold has to say about CREMA. The Nashvillest is an entertaing-must-ad-this-to-your-rss reading list. Check it out: the Nashvillest.
While you’re surfing, check out these photos Dave has snapped at CREMA, he’s making a small fortune seling them over at istockphoto.com. Nice work Dave! Check them out.
While I’m on a roll here with links, here’s one of our favorite new blogs, Soapbox Musings, she “gets it” and also wrote a few kinds words about CREMA, “…the best cappuchino I have had since returning to the States…it’s as close to an Italian morning as I’m going to get in quite some time.” Read the whole post.
This Friday, May 9th is Bike to Work day. Bikers across Nashville will commute in to downtown and meet at the Schermerhorn plaza. Check out the details here: http://www.walkbikenashville.org/
While on the Walk/Bike Nashville website check out the results from the 4th Great Commuter Race that pitted a biker, a car and the Music City Star against each other! CREMA was pleased to provide coffee for this event.
Just maybe we’ll have a couple free cups of coffee for anyone that stops by on their bikes on friday!
If you’ve ever wondered how the Barista’s at CREMA craft the Cuban coffee, the popular Baccanerra or you just love espresso and want to learn more, here’s your chance!
As part of CREMA’s ongoing espresso & coffee education events we’re offering a chance for 10 people to get behind the bar and try out CREMA’s LaMarzocco GB5 espresso machine for themselves. Guided by Rachel, co-owner and CEO (Chief Espresso Officer), we’ll reveal some of the dirty little secrets behind the curtain of great espresso, our favorite of which is the naked portafilter!
Secrets of Espresso will be Saturday April 5, 2008 from 3:30PM – 5PM at CREMA.
This is a free event. Space is limited to first 10 people.
If you missed our first event, a meet and greet with our Roaster or will not be able to attend this class and would like to know more about upcoming events join the CREMA email list.
