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Very tasty! Espresso a go-go and blendamentosis blends were the order of the day…

I received a care package in the mail today from my good friend Erin. She is one of the most awesome people I know, and a friend to Godshots as it turns out. She sent me two pounds of Gorilla Coffee, and I can’t wait to taste it. This next Saturday Erin, we drink to you! Thank you!

(link to flickr fotoset of my visit)

Over the thanksgiving weekend, (I know it’s been a while, but I’ve been busy with uhm… personal matters…) I had a chance to visit Cafe Grumpy during a visit to New York City. Even though the place was kind of busy, and the barista (whose name I’ve completely forgotten, sorry man!) was serving the shots as fast as possible, the cup I ordered was fantastic.

I took home a couple of pounds of their Espresso Toscano blend to share for godshots, a very very tasty blend that served us extremely well for the couple of weeks following the trip. You would generally expect a blend from such an awesome coffee shop to be real good, but the truth is that the altitude here in Mexico City affects brewing conditions such that most blends don’t brew here in quite the way they were meant to by the cuppers who developed them. So it was a pleasant surprise and a relief to find the Toscano blend adapting to the conditions here and giving us consistently tasty shots.

Anyway, I had an awesome time drinking coffee at the place, and recommend it highly as a top coffee destination in NYC for anyone visiting town and needing a perfectly made nectar of the gods.

Cafe Grumpy’s blog

Being Gardoni’s roommate for a few months was great. I had a chance to develop a comfortable relationship with his espresso gear, namely the Silvia and the Rocky grinder.

I have to say that if I had the budget, and I were looking for a pump espresso machine (as opposed to a lever machine), I would seriously consider the Silvia with PID such as Gardoni has now. Managing the temperature variable in a precise manner allows for some pretty consistent shots.

But where I was most able to learn was from the frothing wand. My europiccola doesn’t have half the steaming power that the Silvia does, and I was able to get better milk, faster and more consistently with it. That made my rosetta pouring skillz improve all the more during my stay!

Well, I think it’s safe to say that these have been difficult times… But, yesterday Yoshi hosted the event among friends for the first time in five months! The coffee was great, but we could have been drinking burnt, three day old crap and it still would have been great. Congratulations Yoshi! And thank you!

I love our friends that love our coffee.

I think that these are dark times here at godshots. I really do. We started godshots in order to drink coffee, to be sure, but also to be around people we love. To drink coffee with people we love. But what happens when you lose the people you love? This is mainly my fault. Not Chino’s. Ok. That’s it for now.

Here at godshots dot net we read several blogs of people whom we find interesting. One of these blogs is meet the press pot. I love this blog, it is quite funny. It also turns out that my good friend Erin Dowding from New York knows the blogger in question, Erin Meister.
Well, we finally were able to get some Barrington Gold and I have to say it is awesome so far. The complex flavours are difficult to pin point but Yoshi and I are gettin’ there. So thanks a bundle to the people at Barrington´s, Erin Meister, and of course Wilbert for bringing the coffee down to Mexico City.

Our first shipment of Orion coffee arrived on friday. I think we overdid it, ordering 3 kilos. But at least there’ll be enough to go around for godshots, friends and the office.

We did some preliminary testing during godshots, but the coffee is still young (too recently roasted) and we are still a ways off from dialing it in. When we are able to pull off some decent shots with it, we’ll be reporting on how it stacks up to the other beans we usually use.

Yes!
This time it was my turn to host the magno event and Vero and Fer came over and they brought Juna, Vero’s 6 year old child. We didn’t give her any coffee but I think she had an ok time. I did too and the conversation was soothing and engaging at the same time. Here are the pics. Oh, and tomorrow we order some coffee!!!