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.
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.
Spring is a great time for coffee! New shipments arrive monthly as each come in season. If you notice a little bit of change with your next espresso, or a brighter flavor from the Moka Harar, it’s because the crops are coming in season. If you’re in this week, ask us to take a whiff of the Lost Weekend (a blend of Harar and Sumatra), and note the bluberry-ish smell.
We’ve got a deck! Big thanks to Chris and Christian for doing one heck of a job.
You may not want to sit outside now but in a few weeks the deck will be a great place to sit and take in the city view.
In other news, we have a bunch of new ceramic mugs just in, new tumblers, new tshirts (not shown – new woman’s t’s too!) and have you tried the new Pistolas de Espresso? Exclusively roasted for CREMA by Drew Brews, check it out next time you’re in.
We’ve got a Bunn grinder for sale, interested? Let us know.
Have you had a CREMA Car Bomb yet?
Wow, what a title for a blog post, but couldn’t come up with anything better. It has been a while. We’ve been busy, like usual! But these days you’re most likely to catch us on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and oh, working on a our new espresso blend! Speaking of, we need a name for it, want to name it? It’s sweet, with dark chocolate notes and ripe blueberries. I can taste it now.
We’ve been busy. How does anyone keep up with Twitter, Facebook, myspace, yada yada yada….
Anyway, here’s some pix from our recent exploration on the west coast. We found an awesome little, only open a month, coffee shop on Post street. It’s called, Farm:Table, everything they serve is sourced locally and baked by them. So the next time you’re in San Francisco check ‘em out.
Our very own Barista, Logan, has taken to the road again with Roman Candle, a band that lives up to its name and will rock your socks off (what?). We are huge Roman Candle fans, isn’t everyone? Enough shameless rocker promotion and on to Logan’s third report from the road (first Barista Rocker report).
Des Moines. I used to pronounce it “dez moy nays” when I was a kid and then was shocked when I found out (sometime in middle school) that it wasn’t a city in Idaho. Probably shouldn’t be broadcasting this, but it’s the truth. We’re playing a place called the Vaudeville Mews tonight here. This is a great little club in a great town – at least as far as we’re concerned – the local paper here, “the register” named our first record the best of the year in 2002 when it came out. And since it was the only paper nationwide to do so, we feel like there must be some sort of connection between us and this place…
Friday, May 15 is national bike to work day. Dust off those old pedals and head on into work the healthy way, hit up CREMA on the way for a free drip coffee.
Find more information such as routes and meet up points at www.WalkBikeNashville.org.