Latte Art Throw Down – part 2 The next two competitors in the Latte Art Throw Down are up and ready to throw down! First up we have Lida Beel of Cafe Main who is going for the perfect Rosetta. Our second barista is Steven Muench of Cafe Main who rocks out a heart. The thing that strikes me the [...]

Despite the cold weather Kansas City definitely has it’s benefits. We have a rocking food and beverage culture and with the emerging coffee culture I am on cloud nine. Over the past 3 years, since Coffee Cup News inception, I have seen the Kansas City coffee culture evolve in a pretty dramatic way, more on that in a future post. [...]

I have people ask me on a regular basis, “What do you think of Starbuck VIA? or Do you like the new Starbucks VIA Veranda?” So I thought I would settle it once and for all in this post. Let me first start of by saying that when I do reviews of things like Starbucks VIA or OrGano Gold I [...]

RoboRoast The RoboRoast was launchedis an automatic coffee roaster which roasts coffee to parameters automatically.  The project creators are  Chris McCann, Luke Iseman, Michael Nugent, Nick Kwan, and Steven Kinnea. These guys saw a problem, most people drink coffee that sucks for 2 reasons: 1) Roasted Coffee is partially stale after 2 weeks. (Some would even say after 1 week.) 2) Ground Coffee looses most of it’s [...]

Caribou Coffee launches “You + Your Bou” Twitter campaign Caribou Coffee launched its “You + Your Bou” campaign last week, an all-social Twitter initiative that aims to reward fans for making Caribou part of their daily life. Participating in “You + Your Bou” is easy:  simply tweet using the hashtag #MyBou to share with both Caribou and your followers just [...]

Stove Top Coffee These days there are so many different types of coffee brewing methods to choose from, with more popping up every month.  In this article we will cover 3 types of stove top coffee brewing methods, which include: Turkish Coffee, Moka Pot Coffee and Coffee Syphon. Moka Pot Coffee Moka Pot coffee emerged as a stove top coffee [...]

Latte Art  at Kayak’s Coffee Meet Matt Foster, he is a shift manager and barista at Kayak’s Coffee in St. Louis, Missouri. He is passionate about making good tasting and awesome looking coffee. This month’s “world tour coffee” at Kayak’s Coffee, which serves and is owned by Kaldi’s Coffee,  is Rwanda. They prepared this coffee for me in a french [...]

Today we will be posting live updates to our Twitter and Facebook as we visit local coffee shops and roasters in St. Louis, Missouri on the Caffeine Crawl.