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Introducing our New Partner: Craft Coffee

November 6, 2013 By Michael 1 Comment

Craft Coffee Bags

Craft Coffee at Your Door Step

Choosing the right coffee is a lot like choosing a good wine. It requires a well developed palette, a working knowledge of technical vocabulary, a keen interest in geography, and usually, willingness to spend a decent amount of money. Faced with a plethora of options, it would be nice if someone we trusted would just order for us.

Enter Craft Coffee. Craft Coffee is a a monthly coffee subscription service that …

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Filed Under: Coffee Product Reviews Tagged With: coffee subscription, craft coffee

Cafe Review: Quills Coffee New Albany, IN

September 17, 2013 By Darren 4 Comments

Quills Coffee New Albany Storefront

Nostalgia in a Cup

The coffee shop holds a nostalgic piece of my heart as the place where I first experienced many cultural aspects of the city of Louisville. Like so many college students, I discovered the cafe environ as a place of respite, a cultural mainstay where society has no real expectations. A person can simply “be” in a cafe. I appropriated many cafes as study halls, although Quills Coffee stood out as one great oasis in a concrete desert of no-loitering zones. A few blocks from my house meant it could provide me caffeine and wifi for study sessions. It also provided a location for the romantic notion of meeting someone through some inexplicable fate. One should be young and dream.

Quills Coffee and Books

That cafe where I spent so many hours was closed …

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Filed Under: Coffee Shop Reviews Tagged With: craft coffee, Louisville, New Albany, Quills Coffee

Cafe Review: Collective Espresso in Cincinnati, OH

January 13, 2013 By Michael 3 Comments

Collective sign

The specialty coffee scene in Cincinnati just got a huge shot in the arm.  Nestled on a quiet side street in the historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, Collective Espresso is a new craft coffee shop raising the bar in the Queen City.  Even though Collective has only been open a month, owners Dustin Miller and David Hart are crafting espresso in Cincinnati like seasoned professionals.

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Filed Under: Coffee Shop Reviews Tagged With: Cincinnati, Collective Espresso, craft coffee, Four Barrel Coffee, Over the Rhine, Quills Coffee, Snowville Creamery

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