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Come for the Food, Stay for the Coffee at Crepe Bar in Tempe, AZ

December 17, 2014 By Michael Leave a Comment

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A Foodie Favorite

We have a fairly simple policy for finding tasty coffee in Arizona: go where Bryan Schiele goes. The mustachioed software engineer has a caffeine tolerance that could drink most baristas under the table, and a palate as refined as a master sommelier’s.  As anyone who follows his fantastic blog already knows, the guy drinks a lot of coffee. So when Bryan invited us to visit Crepe Bar with him, we didn’t have to think twice. …

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Filed Under: Coffee Shop Reviews Tagged With: Arizona, coffee & food, Crepe Bar, Heart, Phoenix, Tempe

Cafe Review: Cartel Coffee Lab in Tempe, AZ

December 6, 2012 By Michael 7 Comments

Cartel Coffee espresso
It’s tough trying to sell coffee when the temperature outside is the same as a well steamed cappuccino, but Cartel Coffee Lab in Tempe, AZ has a threefold recipe for success: source incredible coffees, roast to highlight the natural flavor characteristics, and brew with skill and precision. Throw in a friendly staff, a DIY aesthetic, and an old strip mall down the street from a massive university and it’s little wonder that the Cartel Coffee syndicate has expanded to…

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Filed Under: Coffee Shop Reviews Tagged With: Arizona, Cartel Coffee Lab, coffee, espresso, Phoenix, Sky Harbor International Airport, Tempe

Learn How to Brew a Chemex with Cartel Coffee

November 13, 2012 By Michael 4 Comments

A CHEMEX BREW GUIDE from Cartel Coffee Lab on Vimeo.

The Chemex

German-born chemist Peter Schlumbohm had a simple goal: invent the best coffee maker ever. After several years of testing and prototypes, the Chemex was patented in 1939. Over the ensuing decades the Chemex became an icon of design and pop culture. The Chemex is James Bond’s brew method of choice in From Russia With Love and is also featured in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, who says it “epitomizes the kitchen–as–laboratory concept—a hallmark of the interwar New Kitchen.” (They stole the words right out of our mouth.)  In more recent years it has experienced a revival amongst the craft coffee movement, valued for its ergonomic elegance and the clean, balanced cup it produces.

Cartel Coffee

Out of a plethora of instructional videos on the interwebs, Cartel Coffee Lab in Tempe, Arizona has one of our favorites. This shop is always one of my first destinations whenever I fly back to the Grand Canyon State to visit my family (full review here) and this is the only coffee video I have seen with a No Country For Old Men allusion. So strap on your boots, grab a kettle, and start brewing!

Filed Under: Brewology, How to's Tagged With: Arizona, brew methods, Brewology, Cartel Coffee Lab, Chemex, coffee, Peter Schlumbohm, Pour Over, Tempe

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