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The Innovative Home Barista That Shocked the World

December 18, 2014 By Michael 5 Comments

Mikey Rinaldo

Field of barista dreams

For career baristas, coffee competitions are where dreams are made and hearts are broken. To the winners belong respect, accolades, and some really cool swag. To the losers, disappointment and the agonizing wait until next year. Amidst a highly competitive regional competition circuit, one home barista defied the odds and qualified for the US Brewers Cup Championship. It’s exceedingly rare for an independent home barista to compete. For someone with no professional experience to place in the top six is unheard of. But then again, Mikey Rinaldo is no ordinary person….

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Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Brewers Cup, Mikey Rinaldo

I Made Coffee With Todd Carmichael’s Dragon Brewer

August 27, 2014 By Michael 7 Comments

The dragon brewer

Enter The Dragon Brewer

I’m in my living room with a black plastic suitcase- the kind musicians use to transport expensive equipment and mobsters use to hold weapons and drugs. Inside is what Todd Carmichael has dubbed “The Assassin Kit”, which contains a first production run of his renowned brewer, The Dragon. It also includes an …

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Filed Under: Coffee Product Reviews Tagged With: Brewers Cup, immersion brewing, La Colombe, Siphon, The Dragon, Todd Carmichael

Todd Carmichael Reveals Mysterious New Brew Method

April 18, 2014 By Michael 3 Comments

Carmichael brewer

In one week international man of intrigue Todd Carmichael will compete in the US Brewer’s Cup, a competition that crowns the nation’s best brewer of black filter coffee. It’s fairly standard for competitors to develop their own customized technique for the competition, but a new video leaked by Carmichael himself reveals the owner of La Colombe has gone so far as to invent his own brew method.

On Twitter Carmichael referred to the apparatus as the “Manual Siphon 2.0” and spoke of the benefits of “slurry temp profiling”. The video has no sound, but it appears to use multiple chambers to control the temperature of the fully immersed coffee grounds. A plunger causes the mixture to run through a filter and into the bottom chamber of the apparatus, which doubles as a server. Carmichael’s patent-pending use of the Bonavita Variable Temperature Kettle makes a showing as well. From all appearances this approach is involved, tedious, and arcane. In a word, we love it.

Hopefully we’ll get an opportunity to sample what we can only dub “the Carmichael Brewer” at SCAA this week. In the mean time we’ll be looking for a glass blower to fashion us one.

Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: Brewers Cup, La Colombe, Manual Siphon 2.0, Todd Carmichael

Learn How to Brew Coffee Like Todd Carmichael

March 4, 2014 By Michael 3 Comments

How Brew Coffee like Todd Carmichael

The Indiana Jones of Coffee

Todd Carmichael is an international man of mystery. The man has transversed Antarctica on foot, written for Esquire, and is the star of his own reality show on the Travel Channel. He also knows how to brew an incredible cup of coffee.

Carmichael, who owns La Colombe Coffee Roasters, turned more than a few heads when …

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Filed Under: How to's Tagged With: 2014 Big Eastern Barista Competition, Brewers Cup, Chemex, Geisha, Todd Carmichael

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