Hi all,
Zero Prophet Coffee is now online at zeroprophetcoffee.com
This site will remain here for the time being, as an archive for 2007-2014.
Thanks for your interest in our coffee!
“Though there has been disagreement over coffee’s health effects in the past, Cornelis said evidence of its benefits has been mounting.”
Like, yeah… Thanks to Chill for this link to a story in the Harvard Gazette, by Alvin Powell, 10.7.14.
Continue readingWhat about decaf?
People often wonder how coffee becomes “decaf,” and it’s a good question. All our decaf coffee is SWP or MWP, Swiss Water Processed or Mountain Water Processed, and it arrives at the roastery already decaffed (two non-words in the last three, apparently!). Neither method uses any chemicals. Both achieve great results, and the cup is a lot better than you might expect. There is less acidity in a decaf cup, and we choose beans that blend well with the regular coffee we roast, so that a 50/50 blend can be happily tossed down the hatch all day (well, OK, maybe not ALL day…but you get the idea). Check out the Sweet Maria’s brief on all the methods of decaffeinating coffee here. There’s also a nice graphic with Stumptown’s page, here.
salvation (at the nyc poetry festival)
a mocha from the mud truck clears the mind and restores the body
destination roast
this is pretty cool. and there’s never been anything like it before! read about it here: http://sprudge.com/chris-owens-fun-coffee-roasting-desert.html
“So sour and fruit!”
Murakami likened the difficulty of wrapping his head around the novelty of the lighter style of Scandanavian roast coffee to his initial confusion upon discovering the work of the American minimalist painter Robert Ryman: “First I say, this is not coffee? So sour and fruit!” But his palate and trust both grew as they hammered out a collaboration for Bar Zingaro…
read the entire article in the NYT, here
blasting powder
“There’s a new variation on the salted caramel truffle, using coffee instead of water, and the ‘dark chocolate-dipped treat’ is sprinkled with locally ground espresso powder.”
Zero Prophet Coffee donates espresso to the cause of Plum Brook Chocolate….read the article in the February edition of Connecticut Magazine here. Full descriptions of all of Pam Dorgan’s chocolates can be found at the end of the article!
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