Posts Tagged ‘cafegrumpy’
4th 2011
Snowflake Festival (Park Slope)
| December 8, 2011 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
| December 15, 2011 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
We’ll be offering 20% off coffee beans & coffee brewing equipment, mugs, etc. from 6 – 9pm.
8th 2011
Las Flores (Cesar Fernandez, Producer)
Peach Nectar, Apricot, Dried Currant, Vanilla
In the department of Santa Barbara near the town of Peña Blanca, Cesar Fernandez grows coffee along side his four brothers. On his 4 hectare farm, land that was given to him by his father, Cesar and his brothers support each other in the production of great quality coffee. Motivated and driven by each other, this year together they installed a shared, tile lined, fermentation tank. His coffee and that of his bothers, consistently rank highly in the Cup of Excellence program. They continuously reinvest the money they earn in the auction to improve their farms and processing. Cesar knows quality is found in harvesting only ripe cherries. Depulping and fermentation take place on the brother’s shared equipment only a short distance from Las Flores. The close proximity of the wet mill ensures that all coffee harvested is depluped and ready for fermentation the same day. The amount of time allotted for fermentation varies based on the weather conditions of the day. Working together and listening to the advice of the Paz family, sons and relatives of the owner of Beneficio San Vicente the exporters of Las Flores, Cesar is able to produce a consistently high quality, beautiful coffee.
Pacas and Bourbon. Grown at 1500-1600 masl. Washed. Shipped in GrainPro.
See images of the farm and order this coffee online here.
17th 2011
Fuel for the City That Never Sleeps
“Café Grumpy opened its first coffee shop and roastery at 193 Meserole Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in 2005 when “it was like tumbleweeds going down the street,” Ms. Bell said. They chose the location because they lived there, but also because the landlord was willing to take a risk on a new food business.
“It’s a lot easier now,” having proved to be a viable business, she said, which has enabled Café Grumpy to expand into Manhattan, where it also has a shop in Chelsea.”
Read the full article in The New York Times.
13th 2011
Take a Book / Leave a Book
The book exchange back in 2008
The book exchange in 2010
Today’s piece in The New York Times, “A Shelf-Obsessed Writer” by Jami Attenberg gave us a whole new perspective on this special bookshelf. We love the accompanying illustration by James Gulliver Hancock as well.
Here are some excerpts:
“The cafe in question, Café Grumpy in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is home to a youthful, charmingly messy clientele who, laptops in tow, come to work there more often than to socialize. The bookcase is located to the right of the bathroom in the rear of the cafe, near a large machine that roasts the coffee beans. All day long the roaster hums, and it smells fantastic.”
“I asked her if she ever read any of the books, and she told me she did. She had moved to Brooklyn from another state, and had left all of her books behind. So everything she read came from the shelves in the cafe. She would take the books home, read them, and then bring them back with her when she was done.”
Read the full article here.
29th 2011
On the Menu: Best of Panama Lot #6 – Don Julian
Best of Panama Lot #6 Don Julian (Gonzalo Rojas, Producer)
Horqueta, Boquete, Panama
Pacamara varietal. Grown at 1650 masl. Washed. Vacuum-sealed at origin.
This is the second year in a row that we have had the opportunity to win a lot from the Best of Panama Auction and we are really excited to share this exclusive coffee with you.
The Best of Panama Auction is held by the Specialty Coffee Association of Panama – a non-profit organization created to promote Panama’s special coffee production in the world while being committed to “quality and uniqueness paired with social and environmental responsibility.”
After being judged by a jury of international coffee professionals, the highest scoring lots are entered into an auction. The online bidding is open to roasters of all sizes from around the world. After roasting and cupping samples of all of the lots offered, we selected Don Julian as our favorite, so that is the one we bid on. This particular lot is only 550 lbs of green coffee (for those of you who don’t know…coffee loses weight when it is roasted). We were lucky to win the entire lot after some tough bidding!
Some of us taste notes of hibiscus, toffee and blood orange in the cup…try this special coffee and let us know what you taste!
27th 2011
In Search of The Source at Café Grumpy
“Café Grumpy has ridden the wave, opening three additional locations (including an outpost in Park Slope). But more impressively, they’ve managed to stay way out in front of the quality curve by sourcing their coffee directly from farmers in Central and South America, and by roasting the beans themselves in their Greenpoint shop — both things that very few other shops are able to or interested in doing. They’ve even opened a bakery at their Lower East Side location that’s now supplying baked goods to all four shops.”
Read the full write-up on NonaBrooklyn.
