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Month: May 2018

Clearing Up Three Misconceptions about Turkish Coffee

  • Michael Butterworth
  • May 31, 2018May 31, 2018
  • 2 Comments

We live in the era of fake news, and in the world of coffee there’s certainly a lot of misinformation about Turkish coffee. But we’re here to set the record straight about the syrupy, sludgy cu

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Book Review: The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers

  • Michael Butterworth
  • May 22, 2018May 22, 2018
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Dave Eggers has always been connected with specialty coffee in my mind. I purchased my first Eggers’s novel from Quills Coffee and Books on Kentucky St. in Louisville’s Paristown neighborhood.

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The La Marzocco Turkey Showroom Opens in Istanbul

  • Michael Butterworth
  • May 15, 2018May 15, 2018
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Few people could have predicted the way specialty coffee has boomed in Istanbul over the last five years. It wasn’t that long ago you could count the number of specialty coffee shops in Turke

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Introducing Bellwether Coffee: A Zero-Emissions Roaster

  • Michael Butterworth
  • May 14, 2018May 14, 2018
  • 1 Comment

With the most pessimistic reports predicting the near extinction of arabica coffee in the next fifty years due to climate change, the specialty coffee industry has an invested interest in reducing

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How to Make Iced Coffee with the December Dripper

  • Michael Butterworth
  • May 9, 2018
  • 4 Comments

Last year, the December Dripper emerged on the scene with a simple but revolutionary design. The brewing device uses a silicon gasket to adjust the flow rate with a simple twist. One of the more in

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Meet Martell Mason of Arabica Trading House

  • Michael Butterworth
  • May 4, 2018May 10, 2018
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Small coffee roasters face numerous challenges, but Turkish roasters face a bigger obstacle: access to quality green coffee. Most coffee in Turkey is imported twice: first by an European or America

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Sunergos Coffee Opens Fourth Louisville Location in Deer Park

  • Michael Butterworth
  • May 1, 2018May 1, 2018
  • 1 Comment

Long time readers of The Compass will remember our first post highlighted an exciting new espresso bar in Downtown Louisville. That espresso bar, of course, was the third retail location for Loui

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