One of the benefits of having an amazing sponsor like Prima Coffee is that occasionally they ask us to help them test new products. Even better is when that new product is a piece of equipment we&#
Author: Michael Butterworth
Michael Butterworth is an authorized instructor of the Specialty Coffee Association and the inventor of the Etkin Dripper. He cofounded the Coffee Compass mostly as an excuse to visit more coffee shops. For consulting and training enquiries please visit butterworth.coffee.
Palace Coffee Shares What it Takes to be America’s Best Coffeehouse
Recent controversy around the cancelations of regional barista competitions by the SCAA has led to lively online discussion concerning the future of coffee competitions. Many voices are calling fo
Is This The Best Barista Documentary Yet?
Here at the Coffee Compass we love barista competitions and documentary films. It just so happens that Prima Coffee shares this esoteric intersection of interest. Their new documentary, The Worl
Gear Review: Monarch Methods Kettle
A few months ago we published a short post admiring our friend Brian Schiele’s Monarch Methods Kettle. Someone must have read the article, because my coworkers at Quills Coffee surprised me
Jim Gaffigan’s 9 Best One-liners about Coffee
You know craft coffee has gone mainstream when stand-up comics are ripping on it. In Jim Gaffigan’s book Food: A Love Story he dedicates several pages to how his caffeine addiction led to
Five Things I Learned From Scott Rao’s The Coffee Roaster’s Companion
There are few things as humbling as trying to learn how to roast coffee. It might seem simple enough, but it’s a complex skill that very few people have mastered. Thankfully, coffee legend
This Video about Great Coffee in Aarhus, Denmark is Hauntingly Beautiful
2015 is turning into the year of mid-length coffee films. After sharing Cafe Imports’s new series about Ethiopia and Kávékalmár origin trip to Costa Rica, we decided to lay off the video
A Look Inside BLK \ MRKT In Traverse City, Michigan
Veteran barista Chuck Korson opened his dream shop with BLK \ MRKT in Traverse City, Michigan. A Kees van der Westen Spirit pulls shots of a rotating cast of roasters. Manually brewed coffees are s
Sourced: A Short Film About Rio Jorco in Costa Rica
Whether it’s filming the inside of a coffee roaster or conducting freakish scientific experiments with a moka pot, Hungarian coffee filmographers Kávékalmár love to explore unchartered te
Take a Look at the Hartmann Family Farm in Panama
This last holiday season we splurged and got ourselves a special Christmas present: the Hartmann Geisha Series from Calgary-based coffee roasters Phil & Sebastian. The special seasonal offer fe