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“My people must drink beer.”
I’m doing research for a book I’m writing about coffee and came across this gem of a quote from Frederick the Great regarding the benefits of drinking beer rather than coffee. I’ve seen it before but...
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Delocator: Find locally-owned coffee shops, bookstores, theatres
Any time I travel, I look for local brewpubs and breweries. So a few weeks ago I added a section of links over in the right hand column called “Find local beer.” I used to reference the listings on...
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Will Work for Beer, Coffee
I didn’t delve too deeply into labor issues in Fermenting Revolution. But I’m now doing research for a book on coffee, an industry with a history of slavery and other labor abuses that continue to this...
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Solar Powered Coffee Roaster
The Hartkops brothers, David and Michael, have built a solar powered coffee roaster that handles 3 pounds of beans at a time. That’s pretty small. But its also pretty cool. And they’re working on one...
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For the Price of a Cup of Coffee . . .
I like this graphic from Just Coffee depicting all the costs behind a pound of their fair trade, organic coffee. It would be cool if they did one for environmental impact too.
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Beer & Coffee
I’ve begun writing a second book. This one is about coffee and sustainability. I’m writing it with my friends Chris and Jody at Higher Grounds Trading. We’ve just launched a blog where we’ll be...
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Fair Trade Coffee Stout from Short’s Brewing and Higher Grounds
Regular readers may know that I am working on my second book right now. In this one the idea is to do for coffee what Fermenting Revolution tried to do with beer – tell the story of equity and...
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Bugs that Drink Beer and Blood
The New York Times reported Tuesday on Frank Davis and his USDA lab at Mississippi State University. Frank raises and studies armyworms and other agricultural pests. He says his bugs love beer and then...
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Brew Organic Beer and Roast Organic/Fair Trade Coffee at Home
Many of my regular readers know that I am part owner of a company called Seven Bridges Cooperative. We sell all organic supplies for home beer-brewing and home coffee roasting (also fair trade). We...
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Savoring the Bitter and the Sweet
We humans have a penchant for both the bitter and the sweet. Beer, for example, is a naturally sweet drink that people have craved since the earliest known civilizations in northern China and...
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