May 9th, 2009
I was bored with the older design on my website, so I gave it a quick revamp. Still some minor adjustments to be made.
I guess the biggest change i made was moving my Blog to the homepage. So any previous links that have been made to my website, will now show up as “not found”.
I guess it’s just one of those things. I’ve been umming and arring over it for a while and I think it will be more of a benefit to me for the future having the blog directly on my home page.
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May 5th, 2009
I’ve been having lots of fun this week and last week with coffee. Pulling tonnes of S.O to see what has potential ( must say I quite enjoyed the Tanzania Karmaro as a S.O cappuccino) and also we’ve had coffees in that I’ve not tried before by my own hand. I’ve tried lots of Intelli coffees, but I’ve never actually used it myself to make a drink, so it’s been fun finding out how they tastes across the range of brewing processes. I think we’ve had the Agua Preta, Brazil and Anjilanaka, Bolivia. I quite enjoyed the Brazil pulled as an espresso.
Also this week Brian brought me a bag of Alphabet City blend back from N.Y. I’ve had lots of fun with this and can comfortably say it’s one of the nicest espressos that I’ve ever had. Such a thick consitencey and so incredibly smooth. Fantastic espresso. Actually, I found something weird with it, when I grind it a bit coarser than necessary it gets a strange saltiness that I’ve never experienced in coffee.
Lastly, Swe is back now from her trip home to St Johns, NL. And with her she brought some coffee from Jumping Bean. So that’s something else I have the pleasure of playing with this week.
OH, and also the Sammy WBC espresso should have arrived yesterday, so even more espresso fun. I’ve been pulling the Costa Rica Herbazú alot recently as an espresso, so I know how good it is and I’ve had the Aricha on several occasions as an espresso, but usually just a highlight mixed with some epic.
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May 1st, 2009
What do you do on your nice relaxing day off. Your one day of rest. How about walking over 20km, stopping at pretty much every cafe on the way for a shot of espresso?
espresso walk
I think I’d already had far too much espresso by the first Dark Horse. So I kept to Queen St for most of my journey home and skipped some of the “good” cafes that I could have gone to if I’d gone north or south here and there.
I had some great shots, some ok shots, some terrible shots and even some Red tea espresso to boot. The usual suspects (Mercury and Dark Horse) topped my espresso charts, but no suprise there. I just can’t see how people can go to some places that are pulling thin, sour shots. I just can’t comprehend how they have a thriving business. I couldn’t even finish the shots in a couple of stores, they made me feel sick. All in all, I got to say hello to lots of people aloing the way and stopped by many cafes that I’ve never been to.
My last stop was Vesuvios for a meat ball sandwich, which is now helping to settle my coffee filled tummy.
Ah yeah, the whole walk took me about 6 hours to complete and I was kept company by lots of European Death/Thrash/Grind metal. Arsis, Arghoslent, Moonsorrow, Napalm Death, etc…
Matthew
Tags: coffee shop, espresso walk, toronto, ummonshadow
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April 22nd, 2009
It’s Crema’s 1st birthday on Saturday. Make sure you stop by!
$1 Clover coffees and cookies!
Woooooooooooooooooo
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April 13th, 2009
I forgot to include the drivers for my GSATA hard drives on the XP disk. So, I reformatted the drive and now I’m unable to install windows again. Just need to go out and buy some floppy disks, get the drivers from my mobo disk transfered to a floppy, install my floppy drive and then install the SATA drivers during the XP installation and all will be well, I hope.
Thus, my last post about reformatting in 52minutes, well it didn’t go to plan.
Next, WBC this week. I’m sure I’ll watch it via uStream or something when I get the chance. I’m hoping that Geoff can bring back some nice presents for us. I’m not sure what coffee I want him to bring back, just need to check out who has stalls there.
No new photography projects this week. Although I have been offered several spaces to exibit my work, I can’t really afford the initial printing and framing costs though. Sucks.
I seem to have signed up to twitter this week aswell. I’m not really big on social networking sites, but I guess it’s cool to follow status updates. We’ll be updating a crema twitter page as often as we can to keep people updated on whats going on and even just what we are serving every day.
Follow me at www.twitter.com/ummonshadow and crema at www.twitter.com/cremacoffeeto. I added the twitter thing to the top of my website aswell.
Matthew
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