USCC 2016: What To Do and Where To Go in Kansas City
With one of the US Coffee Championships qualifying events happening in Kansas City in February, I wanted to give some of my personal suggestions for things to do, places to go, etc for visitors to the City of Fountains! Kansas … Read More
Taoca Coffee Guatemala Santa Clara Microlot
I was excited to open January 2016’s box from my Kurasu Japanese coffee subscription this month because it contained coffees from Guatemala and Kenya. The first few months of the subscription were quite Yirgachefe-centric and while I love Ethiopian coffee, … Read More
2015 Coffee Year in Review
What blog would be complete without a year in review post? I started KCcoffeegeek.com in September 2014 with a few goals in mind and I think I achieved all of them and surpassed many of them, thanks to readers, social … Read More
The Roast Things Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Beloya Natural
2015 was my first year participating in an international “coffee Secret Santa” called Third Wave Wichteln. Wichteln is the German variation of Secret Santa, the doing of a good deed for someone else. Registering on the Third Wave Wichteln site is free … Read More
Bold Bean Coffee Roasters Finca El Boyerito
Every now and then I get an unexpected package of coffee samples from my friends at Bold Bean Coffee Roasters in Jacksonville, FL. I’ve had enough of their coffee that they reside, quite securely, on my personal “buy with full … Read More
Mama Carmen’s Guatemala Acatenango
Northwest Arkansas is getting a bit of a coffee surge these days with companies like Onyx Coffee Lab, Airship Coffee (a green coffee purveyor) and Mama Carmen’s turning out high quality, popular coffee to the Fayetteville and Bentonville communities and … Read More
D’Amico Coffee Roasters Red Hook Blend
I have a few coffees from Dark Roast December to still get posted for your reading pleasure! One of them is today’s feature, D’Amico Coffee Roasters’ Red Hook Blend. They sent me six dark roasts to try out, so the … Read More